Outside Lands San Francisco

By Western Neighborhoods ProjectSociety & Culture History

Outside Lands San Francisco episodes

August 17, 2013 32: Miraloma Park
Guest Christopher VerPlanck joins the boys to talk about Miraloma Park, a San Francisco neigborhood on Mount Davidson, smack in the middle of San Francisco.
23 min
August 10, 2013 31: Daniel Burnham's Plan
Daniel Hudson Burnham's 1904 plan to remake San Francisco included some momumental visions for the west side.
19 min
August 01, 2013 30: Stern Grove and Pine Lake Park
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.
17 min
July 27, 2013 29: Ingleside Terraces
San Francisco's Ingleside Terraces neighborhood started as a racetrack before turning into a residential park with, weirdly, a giant sundial.
26 min
July 16, 2013 28: Cliff House
San Francisco's Cliff House, perched above Seal Rocks at the Pacific Ocean, celebrates its 150th anniversary in July 2013.
25 min
July 12, 2013 27: Fleishhacker Pool
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!
20 min
July 05, 2013 26: Oddities of the Avenues
The hidden stories of odd buildings in the Avenues of western San Francisco, including a rant about Google map designations.
20 min
June 28, 2013 25: Oceanview
Stories of frog ponds, unbalanced street grids, and Death's Crossing in San Francisco's Oceaniewv neighborhood.
21 min
June 21, 2013 24: Adolph Sutro
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.
21 min
June 14, 2013 23: Camp Merritt
Guest Nicole Meldahl talks about the Richmond District's 1898 encampment of volunteer soldiers for the Spanish-American War.
22 min

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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…