Outside Lands San Francisco

The History of the House of Refuge Lot, where City College of San Francisco and Balboa Park stand today.

Roadhouses here and gone on San Francisco's west side.

Hidden creek near San Francisco's West Portal neighborhood and other secret water sites.

Remembering a little theatre near Ocean Beach that had a big reputation for showing foreign and avant garde films.

From 1955 to 1966 a futuristic aerial cable car traversed Sutro Baths' cove from the Cliff House to Point Lobos. From all accounts, it wasn't as fun as it sounds.

What other museum allows you to play with the collection? The coin-operated amusements of the Musee Mecanique, now at Pier 45, had a long history in western San Francisco.

The names of streets going south through the Richmond and Sunset Districts are alphabetical. How did that happen? The story of San Francisco's Street Naming Commission of 1909.

Author Richard Brandi joins us to talk about one of the country's finest residence parks, San Francisco's St. Francis Wood.

We share one terrific online collection of historical San Francisco images: the Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks at the Bancroft Library.

David and Woody find some surprises in a neighborhood newspaper from exactly 93 years ago.

(Listen to Episode #224 instead!) Woody and David discuss the old Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park