Outside Lands San Francisco
Western Neighborhoods Project
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.
Episodes
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Nov 14, 2014 • 31min
97: Baker's Beach
John Martini tells David and Woody about a place with naked people, shark attacks, and Burning Men. But what do you call it: Baker's Beach or Baker Beach?
Nov 8, 2014 • 24min
96: Mount Sutro
Stories of Mount Sutro in San Francisco's Inner Sunset District. Once called Mount Parnassus, it is covered with the ghostly Sutro Forest.
Nov 1, 2014 • 24min
95: Homewood Terrace
The reincarnation of the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Homewood Terrace on Ocean Avenue was an innovative model for taking care of at-risk children from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Oct 25, 2014 • 21min
94: Soap Box Derbys in the Sunset
From the 1930s to the 1960s children in unmotorized vehicles raced on the hills of the Sunset District.
Oct 17, 2014 • 26min
93: Giant Camera
Built in the late 1940s, the Giant Camera next to the Cliff House, is perhaps the only camera obscura to be on the National Register of Historic Places. And it costs less than $5 to enjoy!
Oct 11, 2014 • 22min
92: Laurel Hill Cemetery
David, Woody, and Nicole Meldahl talk about the Richmond District's Lone Mountain Cemetery, later Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1854-1941, RIP.
Oct 4, 2014 • 21min
91: Bison Paddock
San Francisco's bison herd (they are not buffalo) have been a fixture in Golden Gate Park since the 1890s.
Sep 27, 2014 • 23min
90: Park and Ocean Railroad
Beginning in 1883, steam trains rumbled down Lincoln Way, cut through Golden Gate Park, and delivered hundreds of Sunday visitors to Ocean Beach.
Sep 20, 2014 • 26min
89: Seventh Generation San Franciscan
David and Woody talk to Californio descendant and WNP member Nate Tico. Mixing up Spanish exploring party names, how the Europeans found San Francisco Bay, and how many parklets have been installed around 45th Avenue and Judah Street.
Sep 13, 2014 • 26min
88: Broderick-Terry Duel
On September 13, 1859, a California State Supreme Court Judge and a United States Senator fought a duel beside Lake Merced. The story, and its importance to local and national politics, plus podcast mail!
