Temescal’s Kingfish Pub and Cafe, a watering hole inside a squat green building near the intersection of Claremont and Telegraph Avenues, opened in 1922 as a bait shop for fishermen heading to the delta, and was one of the few bars outside a dry zone near UC Berkeley....
I spent some time at the San Francisco Public Library going through historical photo collections and found some fantastic prints from Pride parades over the last 40 years....
The SFMTA recently digitized an incredible collection of photos from the early 1900’s....
Market Street has one of the more rapidly changing skylines in San Francisco. Old buildings and their grungy neon signs are being torn down to make room for shiny new condos, restaurants, and office spaces....
San Francisco is prone to disasters, but it’s also a place that knows how to bounce back like nowhere else. This city has been almost completely obliterated several times, from both natural disasters and bizarro development scenarios....
The ways in which ethnic communities are historicized and constructed are all part of a system that favors the privileged...
It’s crazy to think how much certain San Francisco neighborhoods have changed in the last decade....
The word “Frisco” has always been a topic of contention. If you want to watch a normally mild mannered San Franciscan lose their decorum or scoff in disapproval, just use the word Frisco — they hate this term....
This February I celebrated my seventh anniversary as an Oakland resident. I’m hesitant to admit it, but growing up in San Francisco, I knew almost nothing about the East Bay until I moved here....
Unlike the better-known ruins of Sutro Baths, the abandoned Fleishhacker Pool lay in relative obscurity at the other end of the Great Highway, off to the side of the San Francisco Zoo parking lot....
Almost a decade ago, a friend had told me about a man-made skate structure in the East Bay I had to check out....
Thanks to Facebook postings, I recently stumbled upon some incredible photos perfectly melding scenes of San Francisco in the ruins of the 1906 earthquake with the modern view of the exact location....
