

Outside Lands San Francisco
Western Neighborhoods Project
Nicole Meldahl and a rotating cast of hosts from the Western Neighborhoods Project (outsidelands.org / OpenSFHistory.org) share San Francisco west side neighborhood history with humor, footnoted facts, and occasional guests.
Episodes
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Aug 29, 2014 • 19min
86: Marine Exchange Lookout
How did San Francisco's Telegraph Hill get its name? An octagonal building at Point Lobos on the western edge of the city tells the story. Plus, information about David's wedding cake.

Aug 23, 2014 • 25min
85: West Side Boomer Memories
Frank Dunnigan, WNP columnist and author of a new book, shares Baby Boomer memories of the west side of San Francisco.

Aug 16, 2014 • 18min
84: Blackie the Wonder Horse
A horse that swam the Golden Gate? Like a lot of San Franciscans, Blackie the Wonder Horse, from the Ocean Beach roadhouse Roberts-at-the-Beach, may have retired in Marin County.

Aug 10, 2014 • 24min
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.

Aug 2, 2014 • 24min
82: Gellert Brothers and Sunstream Homes
Fred and Carl Gellert started the Standard Building Company in 1922, building 'Sunstream' homes in San Francisco's Sunset District, Lakeshore Park, Country Club Acres, and Midtown Terrace before moving down the peninsula to Serramonte.

Jul 26, 2014 • 19min
81: Alexandria Theatre
San Francisco's Alexandria Theatre opened at 18th Avenue and Geary Boulevard in 1923 with a lush Egyptian theme. Ten years after closing, there is new hope the building will be revitalized. (Alexandria theme song performed by Lisa Sanchez and Doug McKeeh

Jul 19, 2014 • 20min
80: Laguna Honda Hospital
Begun as the Almshouse in 1867, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center is still serving San Franciscans on the west side of Twin Peaks.

Jul 12, 2014 • 24min
79: Parkside District
The Parkside, often lumped in with San Francisco's Sunset District, has a history and character of its own. Corruption trials, pioneer groceries, and May Day queens.

Jul 5, 2014 • 24min
78: Top Five Statues of Golden Gate Park
David and Woody offer their top five favorite statues of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: a president, a novelist, a mother, a poet, and a gardener.

Jun 27, 2014 • 21min
77: Great Highway
San Francisco's Great Highway, the venerable road along Ocean Beach that always threatens to be buried by sea and sand.


