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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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!
Apr 18, 2014 • 21min
67: Infant Shelter
City landmark #242, the former Infant Shelter and Conservatory of Music on 19th Avenue and Ortega Street in the Sunset District.
Apr 11, 2014 • 19min
66: Stow Lake
The biggest lake in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and William W. Stow, the guy it's named after. Pass us a brick of pink popcorn!
Apr 5, 2014 • 22min
65: Death's Crossing
Steam railroads and electric streetcar lines all once converged in the Ocean View neighborhood.
Mar 28, 2014 • 16min
64: Works Progress Administration
Part of the 1930s New Deal, the Works Progress Administration made a great impact on the look of San Francisco's infrastructure and parks, including the zoo's Monkey Island!
Mar 22, 2014 • 17min
63: Talkin like a SanFrunciscun
Idiosyncratic pronunications and accents of old-time San Franciscans. We'll teach you newcomers how to talk like a west side local.
Mar 15, 2014 • 21min
62: Fort Miley
Chris VerPlanck visits to share the history of Fort Miley and the Veterans Administration Hospital in the northwest corner of San Francisco.
