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- 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 with Surprising 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 - Camp Merritt
In 1898 the Army bivouacked thousands of soldiers on open land in the Inner Richmond District - 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 - Johnnie the Birdman
A 100-year-old reminder of a local busker - SF West History Minute - Kezar Stadium
For over 90 years, People have gathered at the Southeast corner of Golden Gate Park - 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 Gasoline 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 - Ocean Beach Archaeology
Beneath the sands of Ocean Beach near the end of Taraval lie remnants of former civilzation - 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 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