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San Francisco history lovers: A notice that’s a bit overdue: I haven’t recorded a podcast for years, now, and the chances that I’ll return to this project are slim. That said, I’m committed to leaving ALL THESE PODCASTS online – as a resource f
Just received an email from an old contact — and though I’ve not been actively updating Sparkletack, this project is just too fantastic not to mention. I’ve pillaged the San Francisco History Center’s online photo archive myself many, many time
A couple of days ago, Toby of Bimbo’s 365 Club dropped me a line: “Here at Bimbo’s, we’ve recently stated to scan some of the amazing things we have in our archives here at the club. We have soooo much stuff. We’ve posted some things in our blo
This is awesome. SepiaTown is a brand new website integrating mapping technology with crowd-sourced historical photos to create a virtually strollable San Francisco. They’ve collected over 150 images of San Francisco thus far, mostly clustered
It’s not because Herb Caen got hot under the collar about it. And yeah, I know it was practically the official name of the City in the decades following the Gold Rush — a moniker beloved by locals and visitors alike. In fact, here’s Exhibit A o
For years I’ve said that the enshrinement of San Francisco’s favourite son Francis Joseph “Lefty” O’Doul at Cooperstown is overdue. LONG overdue. Sure, we in San Francisco named a drawbridge after him — but Lefty is due some recognition at a na
I’ve been meaning to post about these amazing T-shirts forever. Because they’re — I kid you not — unbearably cool. It’s an idea so good that I’ve been kicking myself constantly (though ever so gently) for not having thought of it first! What we
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 other favouri
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 digress. If you’v
"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 Francisc
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1922: Flappers in the newspapersMay 19, 1922FlappersRight 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
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1879: Stoddard, Stevenson, and Rincon HillSometime in 1879:The house on Rincon HillLast week I read to you from In the Footprints of the Padres, Charles Warren Stoddard's 1902 reminiscences about the early da
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1854: A future poet's boyhood outingSpring 1854Charles Warren StoddardIn 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
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1906: Hotaling's Whiskey is spared by the Great Fire and EarthquakeApril 20th, 1906The deliverance of Hotaling's WhiskeyAs of Friday the 20th, San Francisco was still on fire. The Great Earthquake had happene
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1958: The Giants play the Dodgers in the first major league baseball game on the West CoastApril 15, 1958Major League Baseball in San Francisco!Exactly fifty-one years ago today, two New York City transplants
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1871: The fall of a hoodlum kingApril 9, 1871:A hoodlum king's power is broken, and all because he hated the sound of music. Apparently.This isn't going to come as a surprise, but one of my favourite historie
I get a lot of history questions here at Sparkletack — some I can handle, but others stump me completely. A few weeks ago, a longtime listener named Demetrios hit me with one of those stumpers: “This is regarding the Sparkletack posting I sent
THIS WEEK’S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:The San Francisco “Cocktail Route” 1890-something The Cocktail Route — “Champagne Days of San Francisco” Spring is most definitely in the air right now, which has brought my thoughts back to one of the great pheno
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:Slumming the Barbary Coast1871"A Barbary Cruise"I've been thinking about the fact that -- just like our out-of-town guests inevitably insist that we take 'em to Chinatown or Fisherman's Wharf -- in the 1870s,
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:America's "Master Birdman" makes his final flightMarch 15, 1915:"The Man Who Owns the Sky"It was the year of the legendary Panama-Pacific International Exposition. San Francisco had once again earned that pho
THIS WEEK’S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1956: Gold medals or Gold records? An athletic crooner makes a life-changing choice 1956: “Send blank contracts” Of course you know Johnny Mathis. The velvet-voiced crooner is a fixture of the softer side of Amer
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1852: English adventurer Frank Marryat pays a visit to a San Francisco Gold Rush barbershop.1852: A Gold Rush shaving-saloonI love personal accounts of the goings-on in our little town more than just about
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1921: the cornerstone of the Palace of the Legion of Honor is laid ... but what was underneath?February 19, 1921Ghosts of Lands EndOn this date the cornerstone for San Francisco's spectacular Palace of the L
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1869: the fashionable neighborhood of Rincon Hill is sliced in two.February, 1869The battle for Rincon Hill is overThere aren't too many people living who remember this now, but Rincon Hill was once the fan
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1849: As the fateful year of 1849 begins, a newspaper editor scrutinizes San Francisco's gold rush future.February 1, 1849The eye of the Gold Rush hurricaneThe spring of 1849 -- dawn of a year forever brand
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