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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Mar 20, 2013 • 21min
11: Ingleside Jail and More
The History of the House of Refuge Lot, where City College of San Francisco and Balboa Park stand today.
Mar 14, 2013 • 20min
10: Roadhouses
Roadhouses here and gone on San Francisco's west side.
Mar 8, 2013 • 20min
9: West Portal Creek
Hidden creek near San Francisco's West Portal neighborhood and other secret water sites.
Feb 21, 2013 • 20min
8: Surf Theatre
Remembering a little theatre near Ocean Beach that had a big reputation for showing foreign and avant garde films.
Feb 14, 2013 • 17min
7: Skytram
From 1955 to 1966 a futuristic aerial cable car traversed Sutro Baths' cove from the Cliff House to Point Lobos. From all accounts, it wasn't as fun as it sounds.
Feb 7, 2013 • 13min
6: Musee Mecanique
What other museum allows you to play with the collection? The coin-operated amusements of the Musee Mecanique, now at Pier 45, had a long history in western San Francisco.
Jan 31, 2013 • 10min
5: West Side Street Naming
The names of streets going south through the Richmond and Sunset Districts are alphabetical. How did that happen? The story of San Francisco's Street Naming Commission of 1909.
Jan 25, 2013 • 17min
4: St. Francis Wood
Author Richard Brandi joins us to talk about one of the country's finest residence parks, San Francisco's St. Francis Wood.
Jan 17, 2013 • 8min
3: Jesse B Cook Collection
We share one terrific online collection of historical San Francisco images: the Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks at the Bancroft Library.
Jan 10, 2013 • 9min
2: The Richmond District of 1920
David and Woody find some surprises in a neighborhood newspaper from exactly 93 years ago.
