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12:3312:33, 9 December 2025 GGIE, Ruth Taylor and the Treasure Island Cartograph (hist | edit) [5,831 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Kenneth Stein'' I recently got a poster size copy of this classic 1939 two-sided map (there called a “Cartograph”) of the World’s Fair on Treasure Island. 800px 800px This one is a bit larger than the foldout frontispiece versions that graced the in...")

12:0612:06, 4 December 2025 Rob Andrews' Dramatic First Home Run (hist | edit) [5,837 bytes] MattSieger (talk | contribs) (Rob Andrews' first major league home run was a dramatic one.)

23:0823:08, 12 November 2025 Literary Roots in the Long-Vanished City of God (hist | edit) [28,512 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''by Robert Andersen, 2025'' ''Originally published at the [https://andersenr.substack.com/p/san-francisco-take-two author's substack] under the title "San Francisco Take Two: Then, from Now"'' :::''…the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills...'' :::::—Jack Kerouac <big>1. Class of 1963</big> ::''To the memory of Michael James Monaha...")

22:5222:52, 10 November 2025 Rout of San Francisco Bay (hist | edit) [18,433 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''by Robert Andersen, 2025'' ''Originally published at the [https://andersenr.substack.com/p/the-view-from-the-uss-san-francisco author's substack]'' :::''To the memory of James Hornfischer'' <big>1</big> A brilliant Friday afternoon in San Francisco, visibility unlimited, and as the Blue Angels dart overhead in a sonic romp, rehearsing their Fleet Week grand fin...") originally created as "View from the USS San Francisco Memorial"

13:1913:19, 7 November 2025 Mission Miracle Mile (hist | edit) [8,745 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''by Robert Anderson, 2025'' <big>'''The Great Good Place Then and Now'''</big> :::''To the memory of my parents'' 792px '''22nd and Mission Streets, 1950s.''' ''Photo: provenance unknown'' The Miracle Mile began at Army and Mission, at the big Sears Store, and ended at 16th and Mission, at Lachman Brothers Furniture Store, w...") originally created as "Once Upon a Time in the Mission"

22:3822:38, 4 November 2025 Gayola Scandal (hist | edit) [8,907 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Michah Ford, 2025'' {| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;" | colspan="2" |'''In San Francisco in the middle of the 20th century, police officers would demand bribes from gay bar owners to protect them from raids and arrests, which led to public humiliation. This was soon labeled as the Gayola Scandal. The origins of the scandal regarding homophobic...")

21:0521:05, 26 October 2025 Peter T. Seculovich Passes (hist | edit) [10,596 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Conclusion: Part 10 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> In June 1909, neighbors discovered him collapsed in his home and took him to hospital. He died the following day, aged 82. Bu...")
20:5420:54, 26 October 2025 Seculovich vs. Railroads: The Need for a Drawbridge (hist | edit) [35,401 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 9 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> The railroads also persisted. Early in 1899, with its route to Santa Barbara approved the Southern Pacific firmed up its choice of route....")
20:2820:28, 26 October 2025 Seculovich Conveys His Properties (hist | edit) [9,601 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 8 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> At the Mission District convention of the Populist Party that fall, Seculovich was one of several men suggested as candidates for the 17th...")
20:2120:21, 26 October 2025 Reopening Islais Creek at Turn of 20th Century (hist | edit) [12,373 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 7 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> After the dramatic public confrontation between Seculovich and John Reynolds over leadership of the Islais Creek Property Owners Associati...")

22:0422:04, 25 October 2025 Cows and Waste in Islais Creek Marsh (hist | edit) [20,470 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 6 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> 800px '''Holly Park Circle, August 6, 1920, three decades after Sec...")
20:2120:21, 25 October 2025 Seculovich's Lots in Mission and Bernal (hist | edit) [17,978 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 5 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> Image:The San Francisco Call and Post 1893 07 29 Page 3 Salomon stockyard.jpeg '''The ''San Francisco Call and Post'' 1893.''' Durin...")
20:0220:02, 25 October 2025 Long Bridge Becomes Kentucky Street (hist | edit) [14,430 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 4 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> Preparations for grading Kentucky Street continued, together with protests against it. The Board of Supervisors overruled all the objectio...")
12:5612:56, 25 October 2025 Keeping Islais Creek Navigable (hist | edit) [33,981 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 3 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> With the Pennsylvania Avenue threat averted, Seculovich turned to the obstructions already in the creek. Perhaps he had discovered he had...") originally created as "Defending Islais Creek's Navigability"
12:3712:37, 25 October 2025 Defending Islais Creek As City Expands (hist | edit) [18,604 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 2 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> 720px|thumb '''Gray and Gifford’s Birdseye View of San Francisco, 1868.''' ''Image...")

20:5320:53, 24 October 2025 Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco, 1859-1909 (hist | edit) [22,354 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 1: “Fiend of Islais Creek”'''</big> Reporting on a meeting of the Street Committee of the Sanrancisco Board of Supervisors in August 1882, the ''San Francisco Examiner'' identified a me...")

15:0815:08, 21 October 2025 Rise and Fall of the Statue of Franciscan Padre Junípero Serra in Golden Gate Park (hist | edit) [26,082 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Chris Carlsson, 2025'' 800px Statue of Junípero Serra, 1920s, with limousine.''' ''Photo: OpensSFHistory, wnp15.564'' <blockquote>Of the thousands of Catholic missionaries who preached throughout the Americas, only a handful are today remembered by name and deed… Serra would likely have r...")
12:4512:45, 21 October 2025 Rainbow Grocery Stories From the Early Days (hist | edit) [12,778 bytes] Lisaruth (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''by Ryan Sarnataro, 2025'' Image:Rainbow journal entry Ryan Sarnataro 10 10 1978.jpg '''This is basically a day's to do list, from October 10, 1978. Typed below is a bit of translation. It is a snapshot of what my Rainbow life was like. Now I wasn't the typical Rainbow worker as I had my hands in not only the basic stuff like 2 hours of cashiering and stocking...")

18:4518:45, 4 October 2025 Harlem of the West (hist | edit) [7,072 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Dorian Scott Gulley, 2025'' Due to its vibrant jazz scene between the 1950’s and 1970’s, San Francisco’s Fillmore district was widely regarded as the “Harlem of the West.” The district thrived as a hub for live performance and gave San Francisco residents a place to enjoy Black creativity. Many musicologists during this time, almost all White, denounce...")

21:2921:29, 3 October 2025 Peoples Temple and the Destruction of the Fillmore (hist | edit) [11,355 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Viva Donohoe, 2025'' 540px '''People's Temple at 1859 Geary in the early 1970s.''' ''Photo: California Historical Society'' The story of the People’s Temple is too often flattened into the image of one deranged man in dark sunglasses—Jim Jones, the manipulative and charismatic cult leader who deceived thousands. But rarely ar...")
20:5520:55, 3 October 2025 Anti-Zionism at SF State & UC Berkeley (hist | edit) [7,187 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Michael Souliman, 2025'' Image:Golden-Gater-2002-anti-zionist-demo.jpg '''Student newspaper at San Francisco State, 2002.''' The history of the anti-zionist movement in San Francisco shifted largely from the Jewish community in the 1940s to the Arab diaspora in the 1970s, and now support for t...")
15:2615:26, 3 October 2025 No to War After 9/11 (hist | edit) [1,307 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Unfinished History ''' Image:Dolores-Park-9-29-01-Why-is-Color-TV-making-everything-black-and-white phone.jpg '''Dolores Park, September 29, 2001.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' Just a couple of weeks after 9/11 and the attacks in New York and Washington DC, as the political class was whipping up hysteria for a belligerent response, San Franciscans turned out at Dolores Park on S...")

10:4710:47, 29 September 2025 My Lunch with Bob Knepper (hist | edit) [5,875 bytes] MattSieger (talk | contribs) (I got to have lunch with San Francisco Giant pitcher Bob Knepper.)
10:2210:22, 29 September 2025 Barry Zito and the Curveballs of Life (hist | edit) [6,127 bytes] MattSieger (talk | contribs) (Barry Zito learned to control his emotions as effectively as his curveball)

13:4813:48, 27 September 2025 Dumpville (hist | edit) [8,937 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Woody LaBounty, originally published at [https://www.sanfranciscostory.com/dumpville/ San Francisco Story]'' <big>'''When Mission Creek was San Francisco's dumping ground'''</big> Image:Wasp-1877-08-18.jpg '''“What our artist calls the ‘Filth Hotel’ at the foot of 6th and adjoining streets, is a disgrace to the city and should be immediately abolishe...")
12:3612:36, 27 September 2025 Red Sky Day (hist | edit) [6,834 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''by Howard Isaac Williams'' Image:Bedroom-gloom-10-15-am-Sept-9-2020 20200909 101558.jpg '''10:15 a.m. in the Mission, the bedroom is still dark.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' <big>'''It’s My Birthday! … And the World’s Coming to an End!'''</big> On the morning of September 9, 2020, my 68th birthday, I awoke and looked toward my window to the east. I s...")

15:4615:46, 26 September 2025 Skateboarding in San Francisco (hist | edit) [23,006 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Exly Lundahl, 2025'' Image:Skateboard-mass 20200611 141818.jpg '''Skateboarders mass on Market Street, June 11, 2020, protesting the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' {| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;" | colspan="2" | '''San Francisco has been called a “Mecca” for skateboarding,(1) and looking around...")
14:2414:24, 26 September 2025 Miné Okubo (hist | edit) [5,662 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Hayden Douglas Gunter, 2025'' Image:Miné-Okubo-works-on-her-illustration-for-the-second-Trek,-a-camp-publication.-(Courtesy-of-Japanese-American-National-Museum.jpg '''Miné Okubo works on her illustration for a camp illustration during internment.''' ''Photo: courtesy Japanese American National Museum'' Miné Okubo was a victim of the American Japanese...") originally created as "Mine Okubo"
13:5813:58, 26 September 2025 Interstate 280’s History and Technology (hist | edit) [11,747 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Yavor Litchev, 2025'' Image:I-280-next-to-Crystal-Springs-reservoir P1020514.jpg '''Interstate-280 skirts the ridge-top just east of Crystal Springs reservoir in San Mateo county.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2015'' {| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;" | colspan="2" | '''Interstate 280 is a highway that was conceived in the 1950s in order to...")

20:4920:49, 24 September 2025 Sisters, By and For Gay Women (hist | edit) [7,350 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Jacqueline Alegria, 2025'' {| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;" | colspan="2" | Between 1970 and 1975, Sisters magazine served as a vital cultural and political outlet by and for gay women in San Francisco. Emerging in the early years of the modern lesbian and feminist movements, the magazine offered a platform for creative expression, community-b...")

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