San Francisco History Podcast – Sparkletack
Stories unearthed from the history of San Francisco, the "city that knows how".
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 98
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.18.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1922: Flappers in the newspapers
May 19, 1922
Flappers
Right off the bat I have to admit the fact that -- to paraphrase Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck -- what I don'…
00:10:10 |
Mon 18 May 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.11.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1879: Stoddard, Stevenson, and Rincon Hill
Sometime in 1879:
The house on Rincon Hill
Last week I read to you from In the Footprints of the Padres, Charles Warren Sto…
00:00:01 |
Mon 11 May 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.04.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1854: A future poet's boyhood outing
Spring 1854
Charles Warren Stoddard
In 1854, the down-on-their-luck Stoddard family set off from New York City to try their luck …
00:14:00 |
Mon 04 May 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 04.20.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1906: Hotaling's Whiskey is spared by the Great Fire and Earthquake
April 20th, 1906
The deliverance of Hotaling's Whiskey
As of Friday the 20th, San Francisco was st…
00:07:00 |
Mon 20 Apr 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 04.13.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1958: The Giants play the Dodgers in the first major league baseball game on the West Coast
April 15, 1958
Major League Baseball in San Francisco!
Exactly fifty-one y…
00:09:03 |
Mon 13 Apr 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 04.06.09
A weekly glance back at the weird and wonderful happenings that have made San Francisco, San Francisco.
April 9, 1871: A hoodlum king's power is broken, 138 years ago this week -- and all because he…
00:07:00 |
Mon 06 Apr 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.30.09
THIS WEEK’S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:The San Francisco “Cocktail Route”
1890-something
The Cocktail Route — “Champagne Days of San Francisco”
Spring is most definitely in the air right now, which has bro…
00:12:40 |
Mon 30 Mar 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.23.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:Slumming the Barbary Coast
1871
"A Barbary Cruise"
I've been thinking about the fact that -- just like our out-of-town guests inevitably insist that we take 'em to Ch…
00:14:30 |
Mon 23 Mar 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.09.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:America's "Master Birdman" makes his final flight
March 15, 1915:
"The Man Who Owns the Sky"
It was the year of the legendary Panama-Pacific International Exposition.…
00:13:45 |
Tue 10 Mar 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.02.09
THIS WEEK’S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1956: Gold medals or Gold records? An athletic crooner makes a life-changing choice
1956:
“Send blank contracts”
Of course you know Johnny Mathis. The velvet-voiced …
00:07:30 |
Mon 02 Mar 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.23.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1852: English adventurer Frank Marryat pays a visit to a San Francisco Gold Rush barbershop.
1852:
A Gold Rush shaving-saloon
I love personal accounts of the going…
00:07:40 |
Mon 23 Feb 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.16.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1921: the cornerstone of the Palace of the Legion of Honor is laid ... but what was underneath?
February 19, 1921
Ghosts of Lands End
On this date the cornerstone fo…
00:06:40 |
Mon 16 Feb 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.09.09
A weekly glance back at the weird and wonderful happenings that have made San Francisco, San Francisco.
1869: the fashionable neighborhood of Rincon Hill is sliced in two by the "Second Street Cut".
00:07:00 |
Mon 09 Feb 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.02.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1849: As the fateful year of 1849 begins, a newspaper editor scrutinizes San Francisco's gold rush future.
February 1, 1849
The eye of the Gold Rush hurricane
The s…
00:16:00 |
Mon 02 Feb 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.26.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1847: Thanks to a Spanish noblewoman and the quick thinking of Yerba Buena's first American alcalde, San Francisco gets its name.
January 30, 1847:
Yerba Buena becom…
00:07:00 |
Mon 26 Jan 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.19.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1890: Nellie Bly blows through town; 1897: "Little Pete" (the King of Chinatown) is murdered in a barbershop.
January 20, 1890
Miss Nellie Bly whizzes past San Fran…
00:12:00 |
Mon 19 Jan 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.12.09
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1861: the notorious countess Lola Montez dies in New York; 1899: a small boy defends himself in a San Francisco courtroom.
January 17, 1861
Countess Lola Montez -- i…
00:07:57 |
Mon 12 Jan 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.05.09
THIS WEEK: San Francisco's notorious "Demon of the Belfry" goes to the gallows.
January 7, 1898:
The execution of Gilded Age San Francisco's most notorious criminal
Sure, Jack the Ripper had set a…
00:11:20 |
Mon 05 Jan 2009
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 22-31
THIS WEEK: the fiery fate of the first Cliff House, and the case of a parrot who would not sing. Click the audio player above to listen in, or just read on ...
December 25, 1894:
First San Francis…
00:08:00 |
Mon 22 Dec 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 15-21
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history. THIS WEEK:a couple of items from the newspaper files, and an escape from A…
00:08:15 |
Mon 15 Dec 2008
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