San Francisco Story

Normally the whole Grab Bag is available only to Friends of Woody (a group everyone is welcome to join).

More than 35 years ago, I was doing a temp job with Frisco, my brother-in-law, in a waterfront warehouse.

In the 1850s, merchant and mill owner William A.

Guess Where Time for the Grab Bag’s most popular feature (as voted on by a selection of its newsletter peers) the Guess Where.

In the post I wrote a few weeks ago about The Gables bar, I mentioned the M&M Baths next door which “used salt water straight from the Pacific.”

My old friend David Gallagher (F.O.W. #1) is still doing great work sharing historic photos of the San Francisco Bay Area with the public.

Guess Where Every Grab Bag starts off with the Guess Where: you take a shot pinpointing the when and where of a photo from San Francisco’s past and I give the answer to the Friends of Woody who can scroll to the end of the email.

“You’re going already?”

Precita Park, which lies between the northern arms of Bernal Hill and just south of Army Street/Cesar Chavez Street/Let’s-See-What’s-Next Street in the Mission District, is technically not one of San Francisco’s oldest parks.

Not rappin' with my crew from Joe's Ice Cream, but about to start the history trivia contest at the Heart of the Richmond Night Market last Saturday.

The crowd formed early on La Playa: young, old, suited, skirted, blue-jeaned, side-burned, comb-overed, nostalgic, curious.

San Francisco’s Noe Valley has a reputation as stroller land, at least it did.

You know how these Grab Bags begin, right?

The San Francisco Zoo has been having some problems for… well, a good chunk of this millennium.

At the dawn of the California Gold Rush, most of the early arrivals to San Francisco by sea came ashore at the southeastern edge of Telegraph Hill, land claimed by William S.

Guess Where Kick-Off Rather than an old photo, let’s go with this colorful linen postcard for the Grab Bag Guess Where.

This week is the 4th anniversary of San Francisco Story.