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 19, 2013 • 22min
41: Cemeteries of the Inner Richmond
Talking about the Richmond District's Big Four cemeteries around Lone Mountain, the resting place for San Francisco's dead from the 1850s until their removal in the 1930s.
Oct 12, 2013 • 18min
40: Speedway Meadow and Polo Fields
The story of Golden Gate Park's Speedway Meadow, the Speed Road, and the Polo Fields.
Oct 2, 2013 • 20min
39: Carville-by-the-Sea
San Francisco's 1890s bohemian beachside settlement made of old streetcars.
Sep 27, 2013 • 18min
38: Sunset Boulevard
San Francisco's Sunset Boulevard: no Norma Desmond, but from the 1930s to the 1970s, it did have Soap Box Derbys.
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.
