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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Sep 20, 2013 • 18min
37: Brooks Park
The up, downs, and ups once more of Brooks Park overlooking Lake Merced in Southwestern San Francisco.
Sep 13, 2013 • 19min
36: Balboa Theatre
San Francisco's Balboa Theatre on Balboa Street near 38th Avenue is a Richmond District institution.
Sep 6, 2013 • 15min
35: The Gjoa
The story of the Gjoa, a fishing sloop that traversed the Northwest Passage and ended up in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park from 1909 to 1972.
Aug 31, 2013 • 22min
34: 1951 San Francisco Assessor Negatives
Hundreds of documentary building photographs from 1951 tell small stories of San Francisco six decades later.
Aug 23, 2013 • 21min
33: Lincoln High School
Guest Lorri Ungaretti talks about the history of her San Francisco alma mater, the Sunset District's Lincoln High School.
Aug 17, 2013 • 22min
32: Miraloma Park
Guest Christopher VerPlanck joins the boys to talk about Miraloma Park, a San Francisco neigborhood on Mount Davidson, smack in the middle of San Francisco.
Aug 10, 2013 • 19min
31: Daniel Burnham's Plan
Daniel Hudson Burnham's 1904 plan to remake San Francisco included some momumental visions for the west side.
Aug 1, 2013 • 16min
30: Stern Grove and Pine Lake Park
Stern Grove and Pine Lake Park, with a shared history of squatters, farmers, and free music, is not your run-of-the-mill San Francisco parkland.
Jul 27, 2013 • 25min
29: Ingleside Terraces
San Francisco's Ingleside Terraces neighborhood started as a racetrack before turning into a residential park with, weirdly, a giant sundial.
Jul 16, 2013 • 25min
28: Cliff House
San Francisco's Cliff House, perched above Seal Rocks at the Pacific Ocean, celebrates its 150th anniversary in July 2013.
