It’s been 40 years since Playland at the Beach closed down, but many of the colorful artifacts from the amusement park often resurface around the neighborhood. Several weeks ago, this Playland clown head appeared, eerily lit, in the window of… Continue Reading
“Lost Landscapes” is back again this year with its seventh installment of archival film footage of San Francisco and its surroundings. The first showing was at the Castro Theater earlier this month, and the Internet Archive (300 Funston at Clement)… Continue Reading
On Thursday morning, we got a sneak peek of the Conservatory of Flower’s new Garden Railway exhibition, Boomtown: Barbary Coast. This year they’ve tackled San Francisco’s historic Barbary Coast, an area of the city that was the “Sin City” of… Continue Reading
Magic hour at Marx Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Photo by Vic[tori]a Lesikar Happy Thursday to everyone! Here are some links to take you into your weekend… Sarah B. Lost Landscapes 7 has just been announced for December 11 at… Continue Reading
Roller Derby girls in Life Magazine, 1948 Arcadia Books has released a new local history book about our Roller Derby legacy, co-authored by Jerry Seltzer, the man who brought Roller Derby to the Bay Area. Roller Derby found a home… Continue Reading
The Sutro Conservatory Greenhouse building above the Cliff House, 1886 Last Friday, a group of students from Ida B. Wells Continuation High School completed a 3-day archaeological dig that uncovered a portion of the original floor from Adolph Sutro’s Conservatory… Continue Reading
Our friend Woody at the Western Neighborhoods Project posted a new “History Minute”. This time it’s about a scrawled “BIRD” in the sidewalk on 11th Avenue near Clement. What does it mean? Watch the video to find out. After you’re… Continue Reading
Photo by katherinejoy101 Did you know that Mountain Lake (in nearby Mountain Lake Park at 12th Avenue and Lake) is the only remaining natural lake in the city of San Francisco? Two millennia ago, a small natural depression between the… Continue Reading