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
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 8-14
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history. THIS WEEK: a hanging from 1852, and a Miss Goldie Griffin wants to become …
00:08:05 |
Mon 08 Dec 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 1-7
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history. THIS WEEK: In 1856, the birth of a great newspaper; and in 1896, a legenda…
00:08:30 |
Mon 01 Dec 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 24-30
A weekly handful of the weird and wonderful happenings that have made San Francisco, San Francisco.
November 24, 1899 - "Haberdashery Issue Stirs Butchertown"
November 25, 1914 - Joltin' Joe DiMagg…
00:08:40 |
Mon 24 Nov 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 17-23
A weekly handful of the weird and wonderful happenings that have made San Francisco, San Francisco.
November 22, 1852 - An earthquake opens a wide fissure through which the waters of Lake Merced flo…
00:06:00 |
Mon 17 Nov 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 10-16
A weekly handful of the weird and wonderful happenings that have made San Francisco, San Francisco.
November 10, 1849 - Gold rush in full swing: the Collector of the Port of San Francisco files an o…
00:10:10 |
Mon 10 Nov 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 3-9
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history.
November 7, 1595: The accidental naming of San Francisco Bay
All rig…
00:07:35 |
Mon 03 Nov 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, October 27-November 2
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history.
October 28, 1881:
A murder in Chinatown
A murder in Chinatown.
News…
00:08:00 |
Mon 27 Oct 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, October 20-26
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history.
October 24, 1861
The transcontinental telegraph line is finished, li…
00:07:30 |
Mon 20 Oct 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, October 13-19
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history.
October 18, 1851
On this date, after endless politicking and intermin…
00:07:30 |
Mon 13 Oct 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, October 6-12
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history.
October 9, 1776
Two hundred and thirty-two years ago this week, the …
00:07:30 |
Mon 06 Oct 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, September 29-October 5
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history.
October 1, 1938
On a foggy Saturday in 1938, a swaybacked, 12-year-o…
00:06:00 |
Mon 29 Sep 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, September 22-28
September 24, 1855
The preserved head of Joaquin Murieta and the hand of Three-Fingered Jack were sold at auction today to settle their owner's legal problems. Joaquin Murieta was a notorious and …
00:06:00 |
Mon 22 Sep 2008
Something new: weekly Time-capsule podcast, September 15-21
A little explanation is in order
So. The schedule of Sparkletack production has fallen off a bit during the past year, and for that I apologize. I miss the show myself, so I've decided to tweak the …
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Thu 18 Sep 2008
#66: Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
It’s one of San Francisco’s best-loved monuments — the figure of a heartbreakingly beautiful girl balancing lightly atop a granite column high above Union Square. She soars above both pedestrians and…
01:08:09 |
Sun 03 Feb 2008
#65: Memories of an Argonaut
To many of the thousands of gold-seekers pouring through the Golden Gate back in 1849, the word “Argonaut” was already a familiar one, drawn from the ancient myth of “Jason and the Golden Fleece”.
“…
00:47:36 |
Tue 25 Sep 2007
#64: San Francisco’s Treasure Island (pt. 2)
What is Treasure Island? Why is it there? And where is it going?
In the second episode of this 2-part podcast series, San Francisco’s plan for a mid-bay international airport is abruptly derailed by…
00:37:46 |
Mon 27 Aug 2007
#63: San Francisco’s Treasure Island (pt. 1)
Treasure Island is easily visible from San Francisco’s Embarcadero, a low-lying front porch jutting out towards the Golden Gate from Yerba Buena Island. Palm trees in a silhouetted row set off massiv…
00:45:01 |
Sun 05 Aug 2007
#62: Samuel Holladay, Pioneer Squatter of Lafayette Park
On a recent Pacific Heights walking tour I found myself standing atop Lafayette Park. As I admired the spectacular view, the guide told an unfamiliar story about a mansion that once occupied this hil…
00:50:48 |
Fri 22 Jun 2007
#61: Lefty O’Doul — The Man in the Green Suit
You’ve seen the green and white signs in front of the “Lefty O’Doul Restaurant and Piano Bar” down on Geary Street, but who is Lefty O’Doul? Just another phony Irish name invented to sell beer?
Ab…
01:13:00 |
Mon 28 May 2007
#60: Starr King and the California Civil War (pt. 2)
At the end of the Part One of this two part series, Abraham Lincoln had been elected president, the Civil War had broken out, and the question of California’s loyalty to the Union was in grave doubt.…
00:47:16 |
Fri 27 Apr 2007
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