Outside Lands San Francisco

Daniel Hudson Burnham's 1904 plan to remake San Francisco included some momumental visions for the west side.

Stern Grove and Pine Lake Park, with a shared history of squatters, farmers, and free music, is not your run-of-the-mill San Francisco parkland.

San Francisco's Ingleside Terraces neighborhood started as a racetrack before turning into a residential park with, weirdly, a giant sundial.

San Francisco's Cliff House, perched above Seal Rocks at the Pacific Ocean, celebrates its 150th anniversary in July 2013.

Promoted as the world's largest outdoor swimming pool, San Francisco's Fleishhacker Pool opened in 1925 and closed in the early 1970s. It was cold!

The hidden stories of odd buildings in the Avenues of western San Francisco, including a rant about Google map designations.

Stories of frog ponds, unbalanced street grids, and Death's Crossing in San Francisco's Ocean View neighborhood.

Did he own one-twelfth of San Francisco or just a twentieth? Either way, Adolph Sutro made his mark on the city, especially the west side.

Guest Nicole Meldahl talks about the Richmond District's 1898 encampment of volunteer soldiers for the Spanish-American War.

Carl Larsen, restaurateur, chicken ranch owner, and Sunset District pioneer has perhaps one of San Francisco's most-viewed parks named after him.

Golden Gate Park's pickup baseball legends, the Park Bums, and other pickup ball-playing stories and locales.

Talking about the old and new Beach Chalet on the western edge of Golden Gate Park at Ocean Beach.

Guest John Martini talks historic forts and fortifications around the Golden Gate and Ocean Beach.

The interesting life of George Turner Marsh, pioneer of the Richmond District and possible namer of the neighborhood.

David and Woody review a 54-year-old book that inspired both of them.

The story behind an octagonal San Francisco landmark on Monterey Boulevard.

After San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and Fire over 5,600 relief cottages were constructed for the refugees. Some still survive today.

Bricks of pink popcorn, the Little Puffer train, Storyland, lions, tigers, and bears... join Woody and David in remembering the history of the San Francisco Zoo.

San Francisco's largest neighborhood has its own distinctive architecture thanks to 1930s merchant-builders like Henry Doelger, Oliver Rousseau, and the Gellerts.

Guest Paul Rosenberg talks about the source of rails recently uncovered on Balboa Street.