Storied: San Francisco

Harmony Fraga grew up mostly in the East Bay, with San Francisco always just a scenic drive over the Bay Bridge.

In this podcast, Harmony, who today owns and operates the Social Study in the Fillmore…

Bob Buckter's painting and color consulting business is responsible for the look and feel of more than 17,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco.

In this podcast, Bob picks up where he left off in…

Some of us talk about making the world a better place. Bob Buckter, aka Dr. Color, has spent the last 50 years doing just that.

In this podcast, Bob, a born-and-raised San Franciscan, reflects on his…

For 15 years, starting on the day he moved to the Mission, Sam was Jeff's corner-store guy. In this podcast, Sam talks about his move to the U.S. from Jordan as a teenager. He and his brother Joe end…

In Part 1, Cassandra Dallett took us on one helluva ride, from Haight and Fillmore and over to North Beach and shows at the Mab.

In this podcast, she tells the story of enrolling in school and making…

When Cassandra Dallett moved to San Francisco in the mid-1980s, she hit the ground running ...

Welcome to Season 3 of Storied: San Francisco! It's good to be back at it, capturing the spirit of the p…

In this last podcast of Season 2, Chloe Jackman talks about various office and service jobs she had before she was inspired and able to pursue her photography full-time. She also talks about the real…

Chloe Jackman grew up all over San Francisco.

In this podcast, she takes us on a journey through several different neighborhoods she lived in and schools she went to. After high school, she lived in …

Brian Goggin created Defenestration in 1995. The idea originated when Brian was working with an artist in Paris, and it came to life on the corner of Sixth and Howard in San Francisco. In this podcas…

Brian Goggin moved to San Francisco from Davis, California, in 1988. His first visits to the city came as a kid when his parents enrolled him in a class at the SFMoMA where he studied animation and s…

In this podcast, Dara charts her path from educational work to going back to grad school for non-profit program management. That led her to helping start The Dinner Party, a non-profit with the goal …

These days, Dara Kosberg is the program director for the non-profit Reimagine: End of Life, a 10-day gathering with more than 250 events all over SF and the Bay Area that explore topics around death,…

In this episode, Chris talks about "making" photographs with Polaroid cameras. He explains his method of shooting pictures then leaving his photos to marinate, as it were, in various mixtures of blea…

Photographer Chris Macias grew up in the Los Angeles area. He came to San Francisco to go to art school, and his school happened to be in the Tenderloin.

In this podcast, Chris talks about arriving i…

In this podcast, recorded as part of an SF Cultural History Museum pop-up over the summer, TJ and Quiver talk more about the work they do with Street Sheet and the Coalition on Homelessness.

If you m…

In this podcast, Street Sheet editors Quiver and TJ talk about their early lives and moving to the Bay Area. They go into how they each got started in thinking about, writing, and other ways of worki…

In this podcast, Ava starts off with more memories of Chinatown and the story of her mom growing up there. She talks about the two bands she's in at the moment--Preschool and The Gonks (w/Sonny of So…

Ava Lynch just started college.

In this podcast, Ava (the daughter of S1E47 storyteller Mike Lynch) talks about growing up in Visitacion Valley, going to preschool and her grandma's house in Chinatow…

Bowen Dwelle lives in his van.

In this podcast, Bowen talks about leaving his hometown of San Francisco after high school, what it was that brought him back, some jobs and businesses he's had, his lo…