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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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!
Sep 6, 2014 • 23min
87: Polytechnic High School
Polytechnic High School on Frederick Street closed in the 1970s, but some landmarks remain. Guest Angus Macfarlane gives us the history of San Francisco's original high-tech school.
Aug 29, 2014 • 19min
86: Marine Exchange Lookout
How did San Francisco's Telegraph Hill get its name? An octagonal building at Point Lobos on the western edge of the city tells the story. Plus, information about David's wedding cake.
Aug 23, 2014 • 25min
85: West Side Boomer Memories
Frank Dunnigan, WNP columnist and author of a new book, shares Baby Boomer memories of the west side of San Francisco.
Aug 16, 2014 • 18min
84: Blackie the Wonder Horse
A horse that swam the Golden Gate? Like a lot of San Franciscans, Blackie the Wonder Horse, from the Ocean Beach roadhouse Roberts-at-the-Beach, may have retired in Marin County.
Aug 10, 2014 • 24min
83: Dynamite Factories of the Sunset
Angus Macfarlane returns to talk about the dynamite factories of San Francisco's Sunset District of the 1870s. Spoiler alert: they tended to blow up.
Aug 2, 2014 • 24min
82: Gellert Brothers and Sunstream Homes
Fred and Carl Gellert started the Standard Building Company in 1922, building 'Sunstream' homes in San Francisco's Sunset District, Lakeshore Park, Country Club Acres, and Midtown Terrace before moving down the peninsula to Serramonte.
