Sutro's - The Palace at Lands End
a film by Tom Wyrsch
$15 + $4 shipping/handling Color, Running Time 84 minutes

A full length documentary film about San Francisco's privately owned swimming, ice skating and museum complex built in the late 19th century. Once the world's largest swimming pool establishment, the building burnt down in 1966. The ruins remain today. Journey back in time to revisit Sutro Baths when it was in full operation. See: The Seven Pools, Sutro Railway, Merry Way, Sutro's Cliff House, Ice Skating Rink, Egyptian Mummy Museum, Tom Thumb Exhibit, Musee Mecanique, Torture Museum, Lord's Last Supper, Ito, Giggling Ghost, 1963 & 1966 Fires, Sutro Ruins, and much, much more. A nostalgic trip back in time told by historians and the people that were there.

Through interviews, film footage, and hundreds of photographs, this film not only allows us to relearn and finally understand Sutro Baths' history, but also to feel and experience it. 84 minutes in length.

Remembering Playland
a film by Tom Wyrsch
$15 + $4 shipping/handling Color, Running Time 1 hour, plus 3 short subjects

A full length documentary about San Francisco's famous 10-acre seaside amusement park, Playland at the Beach. Located next to Ocean Beach, it was torn down in 1972 to make way for a condominium development. Gone now for more than 3 decades, it remains one of the city's lost treasures. Go back in time to see Laffing Sal, the Fun House, the Carousel, the Big Dipper, the Diving Bell, Dark Mystery, Limbo, Fun-tier Town, and much, much more, all through the eyes of the people who were there. Packed full of historical photos and footage, a treat for any amusement park fan. The first and only documentary ever made about Playland. Running Time: 1hr.

DVD Includes 3 short subjects on Playland at the Beach.

San Francisco’s St. Francis Wood
Written by Richard Brandi, photography by Mark Citret
$75 + $8 shipping/handling - 303pg, 12" x 12", color, illustrated

On heavily-forested land remote from downtown San Francisco, the Mason-McDuffie Company sought in 1912 to create a residence park that embodied the highest ideals of early twentieth century landscaping and architecture. Laid out by the Olmsted Brothers, St. Francis Wood attracted some of the Bay Area’s most accomplished architects including John Galen Howard, Louis Christian Mullgardt, Henry Gutterson, Gertrude Comfort, Masten and Hurd, and Julia Morgan. The 300-page, full color book tells the history of one of the country’s most successful examples of a City Beautiful “garden suburb” through historical images and stunning photographs.

Ingleside Terraces: San Francisco Racetrack to Residence Park
by Woody LaBounty
$40 + $4 shipping/handling. 160 pages, 8 inches by 10.5 inches, hardcover

A giant sundial dedicated by fairies, bookies, horse-breeding capitalists, some of the state's first automobile races (and crashes), and a city official who discovered a cross burned on his front lawn are all part of the story of Ingleside Terraces, a unique San Francisco "residence park" with a racetrack past.

In this new, richly illustrated, 160-page hardcover book Woody LaBounty again unearths colorful, complex, and fascinating stories beneath the quiet streets of a San Francisco neighborhood.

Stories in the Sand San Francisco's Sunset District 1847-1964
by Lorri Ungaretti
$26.95 + $4 shipping/handling - 176pg, 10" x 7", illustrated

Stories in the Sand: San Francisco's Sunset District 1847-1964, is 176 pages of fascinating history, in-depth profiles of four people who contributed to that history, quotes from present and past residents, and almost 200 archival photographs. Stories in the Sand tells the little-known, colorful, and often surprising stories of people who embodied the pioneer spirit by moving into an area of San Francisco that was once considered uninhabitable, transforming it into a thriving neighborhood.

Playland at the Beach - The Early Years
by James R. Smith
$21.95 + $4 shipping/handling 150 pages, 8.5 inches by 11 inches, paperback

San Francisco's Playland at the Beach is a comprehensive photographic record of Playland at the Beach from its construction in 1920 through its glorious heyday in the 1930s and 40s. The book presents over 350 rare photographs of Playland and the surrounding neighborhood, primarily never-before-seen photos drawn from the author's private archive. Richly illustrated and painstakingly researched, San Francisco's Playland at the Beach is a time machine fun ride through amusement park history.

Carville-by-the-Sea
by Woody LaBounty
$35 + $4 shipping/handling 144 color pages, 8 inches by 10.5 inches, hardcover

Carville-by-the-Sea: San Francisco's Streetcar Suburb, a new book by Woody LaBounty, vividly recalls one of the quirkiest communities in San Francisco's rich history. A bohemian settlement erupted at the beach as writers, judges, and lady bicyclists arranged, combined, and even stacked old transit cars to create "Carville-by-the-Sea." This hardcover book contains 144 full-color pages with extensive footnotes. The lush design recalls an antique scrapbook with hundreds of rare images from libraries, archives and private collections.

Then and Now: San Francisco's Sunset
by Lorri Ungaretti
$21.99 + $4 shipping/handling, 96 pages b/w

The Sunset District developed late because of its distance from downtown and because of the sand dunes that covered it for thousands of years. After 1900, as public transportation spread and the automobile became available, housing and streets soon began to cover the Sunset District dunes. WNP Board Member, Lorri Ungaretti shows the changes that have occured over the last 150 years, from the time of the Great Sand Waste of the Outside Lands until today's largest of San Francisco's Neighborhoods.

Sunset District Book
by Lorri Ungaretti
$19.99 + $4 shipping/handling

Get the first book by Western Neighborhoods Project board member Lorri Ungaretti, featuring over 150 historical images of the Sunset collected from libraries, government agencies, private collections and residents' photo albums!

Richmond District Book
by Lorri Ungaretti
$21.99 + $4 shipping/handling

Get the book by Western Neighborhoods Project board member Lorri Ungaretti, featuring over 120 pages of historical images and information on the Richmond district neighborhood of San Francisco. Read about the Gonzalez brothers making aviation history, the many Richmond theaters such as the Alexandria and Coliseum, and how the Richmond was "San Francisco's playground" through the decades. Every page has great photos of Richmond streets, homes, businesses and parks.

Theatres of San Francisco Book
by Jack Tillmany
$19.99 + $4 shipping/handling

You read the sad stories in the papers: another ornate, 1920s single-screen theatre closes, to be demolished and replaced by condos. That's progress, and in this 20-screen, multiplex world, it's happening more and more. Only a handful of the 100 or so neighborhood theatres that once graced these streets are left in San Francisco, but they live on in the photographs featured in this book. See the Alexandria, Surf, Fox, New Mission, Coliseum, El Rey and more in this great new book by eminent collector and movie-house expert Jack Tillmany.

West Portal Neighborhoods Book
by Richard Brandi
$19.99 + $4 shipping/handling

Get the book by Western Neighborhoods Project board member Richard Brandi, featuring over 128 pages of historical images and information on the West Portal, St. Francis Wood and Forest Hill neighborhoods. Richard has collected great photos and facts on the Twin Peaks Tunnel, local architecture, streetscapes, businesses and more in putting together this book.