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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Jun 27, 2014 • 21min
77: Great Highway
San Francisco's Great Highway, the venerable road along Ocean Beach that always threatens to be buried by sea and sand.
Jun 20, 2014 • 17min
76: Mountain Lake
A small lake between the Presidio and the Richmond District played a role in San Francisco's founding. Fireworks and alligators also mentioned.
Jun 13, 2014 • 19min
75: SFMTA Photo Collection
Amazing views of San Francisco streets and streetcars over the last 110 years from the old Municipal Railway archives. Listen to hear the background and take a look at the photos at www.sfmta.com/photo
Jun 5, 2014 • 17min
74: Mysterious Lake Merced Earthquake of 1852
The night in 1852 when an alleged earthquake caused Lake Merced to break its way into the Pacific Ocean and drop thirty feet overnight. Plus, the 1878 gold rush at the lake.
May 31, 2014 • 14min
73: Columbarium
San Francisco's Columbarium, built in 1898 in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, still stands and is still in business in the Richmond District. Tens of thousands of cremated remains in a grand domed building with room for more.
May 24, 2014 • 19min
72: Saving Neighborhood News
Saving San Francisco's neighborhood newspapers, including the Richmond ReView, Noe Valley Voice, Visitacion Valley Grapevine, and more. Plus 25th anniversary memories of the Loma Prieta earthquake, and new earthquake shack discovered.
May 17, 2014 • 23min
71: Westwood Park
San Francisco's Westwood Park, the residence park for the "family of average means." Catch bungalow fever!
May 9, 2014 • 23min
70: Wave Motors
Christine Miller shares the history of tidal energy machines and wave motors near the Cliff House, an 1890s movement to harness the power of the sea.
May 3, 2014 • 25min
69: Timothy Pflueger
Guest Therese Poletti tells about San Francisco native Timothy Pflueger, who designed some of the Bay Area's most stunning buildings and prominent west side schools and theatres.
Apr 26, 2014 • 21min
68: Haight Street Grounds
Angus Macfarlane returns to tell us about when some of the greatest baseball players of the nineteenth century played along Stanyan Street across from San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Also, the first Big Game!
