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Outside Lands Podcast Episode 83: Dynamite Factories of the Sunset

Angus Macfarlane returns to talk about the dynamite factories of San Francisco's Sunset District of the 1870s. Spoiler alert: they tended to blow up.
Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast - Aug 10, 2014

Outside Lands Podcast Episode 83: Dynamite Factories of the Sunset Outside Lands Podcast Episode 83: Dynamite Factories of the Sunset

(above) Headlines on Powder Works Explosion, 1872, Jun 22, 2001

Headlines on the 1872 explosion at the Hercules Powder Works.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 22, 1872.

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