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:
The story behind an octagonal San Francisco landmark on Monterey Boulevard.
After San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and Fire over 5,600 relief cottages were constructed for the refugees. Some still survive today.
Bricks of pink popcorn, the Little Puffer train, Storyland, lions, tigers, and bears... join Woody and David in remembering the history of the San Francisco Zoo.
San Francisco's largest neighborhood has its own distinctive architecture thanks to 1930s merchant-builders like Henry Doelger, Oliver Rousseau, and the Gellerts.
Guest Paul Rosenberg talks about the source of rails recently uncovered on Balboa Street.
The History of the House of Refuge Lot, where City College of San Francisco and Balboa Park stand today.
Roadhouses here and gone on San Francisco's west side.
Hidden creek near San Francisco's West Portal neighborhood and other secret water sites.
Remembering a little theatre near Ocean Beach that had a big reputation for showing foreign and avant garde films.
From 1955 to 1966 a futuristic aerial cable car traversed Sutro Baths' cove from the Cliff House to Point Lobos. From all accounts, it wasn't as fun as it sounds.
What other museum allows you to play with the collection? The coin-operated amusements of the Musee Mecanique, now at Pier 45, had a long history in western San Francisco.
The names of streets going south through the Richmond and Sunset Districts are alphabetical. How did that happen? The story of San Francisco's Street Naming Commission of 1909.
Author Richard Brandi joins us to talk about one of the country's finest residence parks, San Francisco's St. Francis Wood.
We share one terrific online collection of historical San Francisco images: the Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks at the Bancroft Library.
David and Woody find some surprises in a neighborhood newspaper from exactly 93 years ago.
