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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Dec 11, 2014 • 21min
101: Conservatory of Flowers
City, State, and National Historic landmark, the Conservatory of Flowers has been one of Golden Gate Park's most popular attractions since the 1870s. Plus, Woody makes a confession.
Dec 5, 2014 • 22min
100: The Best and Worst
David and Woody review the best, the worst, and the most cringe-inducing highlights from 100 episodes of Outside Lands San Francisco. Plus, listener mail!
Nov 28, 2014 • 23min
99: Great Highway Railroad
Railroad tracks on the Great Highway? Emiliano Echeverria tells us when and why trains ran around Lake Merced and up Ocean Beach.
Nov 21, 2014 • 21min
98: Stonestown
One the Bay Area's first malls, opening in 1952, Stonestown was created by brother developers and home builders Ellis and Henry Stoneson. The Big E! Rickey's Red Chimney! QFI! Blums! And on and on.
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.
