Former NPS ranger John Martini is partnering with the Cliff House to lead a twice-monthly history walk of the area. Get breakfast and learn a lot of history from a guy who knows what’s what.
John has given walks like this for WNP members, and we can tell you that it’s terrific.
Prices and schedules and lots more information:
Glenn D. Koch has very generously shared scanned images from a booklet on Sutro Baths with our friend Gary Stark’s Cliff House Project site:
Sutro Baths, Heights, and Cliff House Booklet
The images by famed local photographer Isaiah Taber are some rare views of the tanks, stands, and promenades in the Baths.
We have such great respect for both Glenn and Gary, who both endeavor to share their collections with the world, to let everyone enjoy and be educated by views of this great city’s past.
After some hiccups with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, Jimmy’s Old Car Picnic will once again take place at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park on Saturday, October 16, 2010, 7:00am – 4:00pm.
Free to anyone who wants to come. (No $225 ticket or fences here!) If you have a car pre-1980, you can park it on the meadow for a $40 donation, with proceeds benefiting the Developmentally Disabled of San Francisco. Family friendly; bring a picnic lunch, or BBQ. No vending or amplified music allowed.
This is a terrific place to meet and chat with old-time San Franciscans!
More information at www.jimmyspicnic.com
Warren G. Harding may have been one of this country’s most corrupt presidents, but he did die in San Francisco, which should count for something.
The San Francisco Appreciation Society is hosting a salute to our 29th president at the Pied Piper bar in the Palace Hotel on Monday August 2, 2010, 6:00 PM. Harding died in office on August 2, 1923 of a heart attack while staying at the Palace.
Ohioans and Republicans will be welcome, we assume.
More info: http://www.socializr.com/event/sfas/hardingisdead
I get that question a lot. Noriega Street in the Sunset District is wider than its alphabetic neighbor streets, although on the early maps no extra allowance is evident.
Wayne Miller sent us this aerial shot of western San Francisco from I’m guessing the late 1920s and it appears that Noriega is being cut through the dunes ahead of other east-west streets.
Could it be some over-zealous engineers were giving Noriega more elbow room than they should have? That seems unlikely, as people were buying lots in the dunes long before the streets and no one wants to find themselves short-changed.
We’ll take all guesses here, folks…