SF West History Minute

• 48th Avenue Grocery
  Frances Kniffin Larkin, a Sunset District resident for over 80 years, remembers when "Your Market, My Deli" at 1460-48th Avenue was Brucker's in the 1930s.
• 70 Years of Sunset Butchery
  The Bowcock family opened their first butcher shop on 20th Avenue in 1908. - SF West History Minute
• A Family in Lakeshore Park
  Home movie footage courtesy of the Prelinger Archives in the Gellert-built neighborhood south of Sloat Boulevard. - SF West History Minute
• Apartment Building's Secret Past
  Is this Ocean Beach building more than it seems? - SF West History Minute
• Artifact Discovery
  A piece of Playland history found in West Portal - SF West History Minute
• Backyard History
  Marty Larkin has added bit and pieces of San Francisco's history to the backyard of his Outer Sunset District home. - SF West History Minute
• Balboa Theaters of San Francisco
  The Richmond's beloved Balboa Theater wasn't the first. - SF West History Minute
• Boy Scout Roadhouse
  The first Beach Chalet had a long and moving history - SF West History Minute
• Broderick-Terry Duel Reenactment
  The 150th Anniversary of the last duel in California - SF West History Minute
• Burger Memories
  Bill Alvarado remembers Happy Herb's at the WNP Picnic/BBQ, October 3, 2010. - SF West History Minute
• Business as Usual on Ocean Avenue
  Ocean Avenue, a street of firsts. - SF West History Minute
• David Warren Memorial
  Remembering the former operator of the Giant Camera, first lighter of the Burning Man, and founder of the Suicide Club, at El Cerrito's Playland-Not-at-the-Beach on January 2, 2010. - SF West History Minute
• Death's Crossing
  Revisiting what was one of the most dangerous intersections in San Francisco - SF West History Minute
• Doggie Diner Head
  The Doggie Diner Head, San Francisco Landmark #254 on Sloat Blvd - SF West History Minute
• Elk Glen Lake
  Golden Gate Park's Elk Glen Lake is elkless now. - SF West History Minute
• Engine Company 33
  117 Broad Street is a historic 1890s firehouse and formerly the home of Engine Company 33. - SF West History Minute
• Famous Gardeners
  David and Katie take a look at some famous trees at the California Palace of Legion of Honor. - SFWest History Minute
• Foerster Street Landslide
  On February 6, 1942, fifteen feet of mud overwhelmed a block of the Sunnyside. - SF West History Minute
• Geneva Carbarn
  Built in 1901, The Geneva Carbarn and Powerhouse at Geneva and San Jose Avenue needs rehabilitation - SF West History Minute
• Golden Gate Park's Oak Woodlands
  In the built environment of Golden Gate Park, there is at least one historically natural place. - SF West History Minute
• Grove of Memory
  A Golden Gate Park memorial to those who died serving in war. - SF West History Minute
• Honest Abe Avenue
  Remnants of America's first highway, the Lincoln Highway. - SF West History Minute
• House of Stone
  In 1927, this house was the most popular destination in Forest Hill. - SF West History Minute
• Hydrant Seek
  Jamie O'Keefe discusses the ebbs and flows of San Francisco's differing fire hydrants - SF West History Minute
• Inner Richmond History Walk
  A stroll though the Richmond - SF West History Minute
• Jimmy's Old Car Picnic
  Jimmy's Old Car Picnic is an annual tradition in Golden Gate Park - SF West History Minute
• Johnny the Birdman
  100 year old reminder of a local busker - SF West History Minute
• KGO House
  The off-screen elf thinks he knows everything... - SF West History Minute
• Laffin' Sal
  Is Laffin' Sal one of a kind? - SF West History Minute
• Laguna Honda Wall
  History of Laguna Honda Hospital's old cobblestone wall at the intersection of Laguna Honda Boulevard, Woodside Avenue, and Dewey Boulevard. - SF West History Minute
• Larsen Park
  One man's gift to the City - SF West History Minute
• Life Saving Station
  Built in 1878, a building used by the Life Saving Service was moved in 1923 from Golden Gate Park to the Richmond District. - SF West History Minute
• Mailboxes of Golden Gate Heights
  Up on the hill, Henry Doelger built two versions of every house, and they're not all alike - SF West History Minute
• Marine Exchange Lookout
  Historian John Martini tells us about one the San Francisco's many west side secrets. - SF West History Minute
• Mohawk Gas Station
  Closed for 25-30 years, the old Mohawk gas station on the southeast corner of Irving Street and 16th Avenue still has curb appeal. - SF West History Minute
• Monkey Island
  A 1940 Trip to San Francisco Zoo's Monkey Island - SF West History Minute
• Mt. Davidson Easter
  The first easter service on top of Mt. Davidson was in 1923 - SF West History Minute
• Mystery Dividing Line
  Funny shaped buildings in West Portal mark a link to San Francisco's Mexican era - SF West History Minute
• Mystery Monoliths of the Richmond
  What are those things at 45th Avenue and Geary? - SF West History Minute
• Narrow Sidewalks
  Reusing one the the Sunset's great buildings - SF West History Minute
• New Shack Identified
  Recent renovations yield a historic dicovery in the Castro... another 1906 Earthquake refugee cottage. - SF West History Minute
• Opening the Golden Gate
  The Golden Gate Bridge opened in May 1937 - SF West History Minute
• Ortega Branch Library Goodbye
  Tearing down our recent history - SF West History Minute
• Parking Lot Secret History
  A parking lot in more ways than one. - SF West History Minute
• Patron Saint Against Earthquakes
  The story of the Ingleside's St Emydius - SF West History Minute
• Pine Lake's Many Names
  An SF West History Minute on the different names for Pine Lake. - SF West History Minute
• Polly Ann Ice Cream
  A good gamble in the Outer Sunset for almost 60 years - SFWest History Minute
• Prayerbook Cross
  Golden Gate Park's Prayerbook Cross commemorates Sir Francis Drake - SF West History Minute
• Remnant of a Richmond Dairy
  The Gables stationery store at 5636 Geary Boulevard was once the home of an 1890s dairyman. - SF West History Minute
• Richmond Cheese Lovers
  Some would argue that 22nd and Geary was once the Richmond District's heart of Mexican Cuisine. - SF West History Minute
• Roadhouse Archeology
  Remnants of an early 20th century Ocean Beach roadhouse hidden inside a nondescript apartment building - SF West History Minute
• Saved Shack in the Zoo
  1906's temporary building finds a permanent home at the zoo. - SF West History Minute
• Secret Past of 649 - 8th Avenue
  The story of a curious building in the Inner Richmond District - SF West History Minute
• Seventh Avenue Station
  Lindsey Fryar tells us what that odd shed is at 7th Avenue and Fulton Street. - SF West History Minute
• SF's Widest Street
  What is the widest street in the City? It's in the outside lands. - SF West History Minute
• Shipwrecks at Lands End
  At the particularly low tides you can see a number of shipwrecks at Lands End - SF West History Minute
• Smaller Stucco
  In 1941, builder Ray Galli broke the Sunset District mold with his tiny single-story homes. - SF West History Minute
• Speedway Meadow
  How did Speedway Meadow get its name? Ask the people at Jimmy's Old Car Picnic. - SF West History Minute
• Sunnyside Conservatory
  Reopening the Sunnyside Conservatory - SF West History Minute
• Sunset School Demolition
  The Sunset Cooperative Nursery School was demolished after 59 years to make way for a new school. - SF West History Minute
• Sunset Tank Houses and Wells
  Lurking in backyards and underground are some Outer Sunset District water sources. - SF West History Minute
• Sutro Heights "Bunkers"
  John Martini demystifies the concrete structures in Sutro Heights - SF West History Minute
• Sutro Library
  The Sutro Library reopens at their fancy new digs - SF West History Minute
• Sutro's Conservatory
  Buried treasures under the lawn at Sutro Heights Park show the location of a long lost building - SF West History Minute
• Sutro's Tunnels
  The story behind the mysterious tunnels through Point Lobos. - SF West History Minute
• The Army Invades the Richmond District
  The story of Camp Merritt - SF West History Minute
• The Breon Gate
  Why is there a huge gate at 19th and Lincoln? - SF West History Minute
• The Columbarium
  Lindsey walks among the dead at the Columbarium, once part of the Odd Fellows Cemetery. - SF West History Minute
• The Great Sign Search
  We go looking throughout the hills West of Twin Peaks for artifacts of an earlier day - SF West History Minute
• The King Philip Shipwreck
  On January 25, 1878, The King Philip was one of three ships to leave San Francisco Bay, but the only one to stay in San Francisco. - SFWest History Minute
• The Larkins Building
  The Larkins Building on the NW corner of Arguello and Geary boulevards has in interesting and mostly unknown history. - SF West History Minute
• The Missing Rails of 20th Avenue
  once upon a time 20th Avenue was the main north-south route through the Sunset - SF West History Minute
• The Mothers Building
  Once a primary stopping place for any trip to the Zoo. - SF West History Minute
• Tombstone Search
  When the cemeteries were moved from the Richmond District, the remains went one place and the headstones another. - SF West History Minute
• Twin Peaks Tunnel
  The Twin Peaks Tunnel connected downtown with the west side in 1918 - SF West History Minute
• Walking the Lakeside Neighborhood
  An Icelandic enclave near Stonestown - SF West History Minute
• We Love the Beach
  Ocean Beach. Sunset. See you there. - SF West History Minute
• We Love the Fog
  Woody LaBounty waxes poetic on the west side's Summer visitor - SF West History Minute
• WNP Open House
  People come from all over to meet in the Westen Neighborhoods - SF West History Minute
• World War II in San Francisco
  John Martini recounts how close the war came on Christmas Eve 1941 - SFWest History Minute