Why I Love Living in Victor Heights
After a brief sojourn in the Bay Area to finish school, I was torn between staking a claim in a new city or returning to the one I had always called home....
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What Was It Like to Live through the ’89 Quake?
San Francisco-based illustrator (and TBI contributor) Jenifer Wofford contacted us about a cool new project she’s working on called Earthquake Weather, an homage to the natural disaster that hit the Bay Area on October 17, 1989....
A Rare Look at An Abandoned SF Shipyard
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is the largest piece of unused land in San Francisco....
Where San Francisco Neighborhoods Got Their Names
This is a city of famously diverse neighborhoods, and looking at the history of our’hoods gives us insight into some very San Francisco folklore....
Photos: Original BART Car Plans
You’re looking at BART promotional photos and a press release that announces the acceptance of some of the earliest BART car designs....
Sneak Peek Inside New Pop’s Bar
Pop’s Bar has been a fixture of the Mission for as long as it was legal to drink (and secretly since it wasn’t legal)....
1927 Cartoon Map of SF is Awesome and Adorable
With so many new buildings going up all around the city, it’s sometimes easy to forget how old San Francisco really is....
Vintage Photos of Gay Love From the Early 1900s
These days San Francisco has gay pride coming out the proverbial wazoo, but in the distant (and not-so-distant) past, the majority of gay individuals and couples had to stay painfully deep in the closet....
Should We Rename Rainbow Tunnel ‘Robin Williams’?
It’s been a week since the tragic loss of our favorite childhood everyman, Robin Williams, and it seems this one is hitting much harder than other celebrity deaths....
Photos: Lands End Shipwreck at Low Tide
I think it’s safe to say that shipwrecks are universally intriguing. They’re old and just the right kind of dangerous, and no matter how much you know already, there’s always something mysterious about them....
San Francisco’s Most Famous Natives
If you’re raising your kid in San Francisco or grew up here, you’re in good company....
Amazing Video of Sutro Baths When It Burned Down
For those of us who weren’t around in San Francisco when the Sutro Baths weren’t just ruins, it’s kind of hard to imagine that there was actually a huge attraction like it on Ocean Beach....