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Here‘s a chap who lived through the sixties in the Haight and claims to remember it.
The video excerpts I originally posted here have come down. This one seems pretty complete. My favorite question was “How wasted is really wasted?”
This 1907 street map from the San Francisco History website has great detail. Clicking on the sections of the map at that site enlarges them.
The San Francisco Public Library’s historical photograph collection is a great resource for old photos of San Francisco, such as this one of snow in Golden Gate Park…
Here is a remarkably detailed (7000 pixels wide) photo of the city in the wake of the ’06 earthquake and fire. According to the legend on the…
click any photo for a larger view (via flickr) Recently I visited the Westfield Centre in downtown San Francisco, mainly to get a look at the historic dome…
The main feature of Port View Park in Oakland is what locals call the Seventh Street Pier. It’s a popular fishing pier that offers good views of the…
I once lived for a time in Guapalo, Ecuador, and later traveled around Peru. So I know from pisco. Pisco is a brandy-like drink that Peru claims as…
There’s a laundromat in the city’s Hayes Valley called the Don’t Call It Frisco Laundromat. The name quotes an admonition you will hear often from a certain generation…