September 16, 2005
streets of san francisco #1 [21:48] | As I was riding around town this weekend, I was suddenly struck by a thought: stopped at the intersection of Broadway and Battery Streets, I suddenly wondered to myself: “Broadway? Battery? Where did those names actually come from? Does anyone still remember?” These names must reveal something about the character, history, and essential nature of a mature city, and so I decided to walk the city, block by block, and try to find out the what and why of our city streets.
Links to a couple of the resources that I used are listed below, as well as some random street photos.
A wonderful 1890′s with the extent of modern landfill indicated in pink.
Thanks to for the use of the track “My Friend”, courtesy of the .
Sparkletack is the blog and podcast of a guy who's obsessed with diggin' up San Francisco history. 
June 12, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I recently discovered this (and then heard from a friend that you were in 7×7). I’ve been trying to catch up with all your earlier episodes — I love it!
Somehow this episode isn’t showing up in iTunes…Is there any way for me to access the mp3 otherwise?
June 13, 2007 at 7:39 am
Thanks for the tip, Liz — the podcast came unglued! I’ve fixed it, and now both the feed and the audio player at the top of the post should be working fine.