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• A map that’s just my type

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 16:48 in just plain cool, san francisco angle

  Ork Posters has created something guaranteed to delight typophiles (that’s me) and San Francisco neighborhood geeks (check) alike. It’s a typographic neighborhood map of Our Fair City. See? Oh sure, they do it for a bunch of their ot...

• Lefty O’Doul’s green suit — in color

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 03:57 in painting, hall of fame, japanese baseball, lefty o'doul, san francisco angle, san francisco history blog, chris felix, tom o'doul

  In honor of that most noble of American pastimes, a lovely painting inspired by a favourite photo of the great San Francisco character, Lefty O’Doul … otherwise known as Mr. Lefty not-yet-in-the-damn-Hall-of-Fame O’Doul. But I dig...

• Inspiration! “Secret Histories of San Francisco”

  Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 18:16 in painting, inspiration, maps, just plain cool, secret histories, from the community, deth p. sun, san francisco history blog

  "Thank you for making such an awesome show. It's really helped me out with this art project I've been working on. I'm in an art show at the San Francisco Arts Commission and the theme is "Trace Elements", or uh, Hidden Histories of San Francisco, so ...

• San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.18.09

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 03:29 in jazz, 1920s, san francisco chronicle, prohibition, world war i, flapper, roaring twenties, san francisco history podcasts, san francisco history blog

  THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1922: Flappers in the newspapers May 19, 1922 Flappers Right off the bat I have to admit the fact that -- to paraphrase Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck -- what I don't know about San Francisco in the 1920s is a lot. ...

• San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.11.09

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 03:06 in rincon hill, south park, robert louis stevenson, historical book reviews, san francisco history podcasts, san francisco history blog, second street cut, charles warren stoddard, in the footprints of the padres, the wrecker

  THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1879: Stoddard, Stevenson, and Rincon Hill Sometime in 1879: The house on Rincon Hill Last week I read to you from In the Footprints of the Padres, Charles Warren Stoddard's 1902 reminiscences about the early days of ...

• San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.04.09

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 03:37 in ambrose bierce, land's end, black point, historical book reviews, samuel clemens, fort point, san francisco history podcasts, san francisco history blog, abe warner's cobweb palace, black point flume, charles warren stoddard, in the footprints of the padres

  THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1854: A future poet's boyhood outing Spring 1854 Charles Warren Stoddard In 1854, the down-on-their-luck Stoddard family set off from New York City to try their luck in that brand new metropolis of the West: San Franc...

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