Outside Lands San Francisco show

Outside Lands San Francisco

Summary: Nicole Meldahl and a rotating cast of hosts from the Western Neighborhoods Project (outsidelands.org / OpenSFHistory.org) share San Francisco west side neighborhood history with humor, a real fact or two, and much-better-informed occasional guests.

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Podcasts:

 241: Ida McCain | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:31

Inge Horton tells about a trailblazing female architect who designed hundreds of west side houses.

 240: Green Apple Books | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:47

Celebrating 50 years of a Richmond District institution.

 239: Arden Wood | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:48

The Christian Science institution built in the trees at the end of West Portal Avenue in 1930.

 238: Irish on the West Side | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:18

Elizabeth Creely visits to talk about Irish-American San Francisco, east and west side.

 237: Sea Cliff | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:44

The showcase neighborhood overlooking the Golden Gate.

 236: 49 Mile Scenic Drive | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:50

Kristine Poggioli and Carolyn Eidson explain what the 49 Mile Scenic Drive is and how to walk it today.

 235: Zoo Trains | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:16

We remember all the trains in the San Francisco Zoo, from the Little Puffer to the playground locomotive to the Elephant train.

 234: Golden Gate Heights | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:53

The story of the neighborhood perched between (and above) the Sunset District and Forest Hill.

 233: Anglers Lodge and Casting Pools | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:57

An alpine cabin and concrete ponds hidden in a Golden Gate Park grove.

 232: Sea Lions of Lake Merced | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:21

An 1890s idea to catch invasive carp backfires.

 231: Roosevelt Middle School | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:29

A Richmond District junior high with unusual architecture and at least one famous alum.

 230: Sutro Forest | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:43

The story of the San Francisco tree plantation that once stretched from the Inner Sunset to the Ingleside District.

 229: Christofferson Brothers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:54

Tim McIntosh tells of early aircraft building and flying brothers who had a flight school at Ocean Beach.

 228: Trad'r Sam | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:32

The Outer Richmond District's venerable South Seas bar.

 227: Grove of Memory | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:12

Golden Gate Park's redwood grove, with Doughboy statue, commemorating Native Sons who died in 20th Century wars.

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