archive for May, 2006
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
announcement: sparkletack takes a break
well, here goes: as i give attention to some exciting san francisco related projects that i’ve been cooking up, including the writing of a book, sparkletack will be on hold for a month or two.
the book will be a how-to guide on the subject of urban history podcasting, something I hope will inspire [...]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
#57: the reber plan for san francisco bay
unsurprisingly, san francisco’s history includes an amazing number of extremely “creative” plans which seem to us today to be absolutely insane. in 1945, a schoolteacher and amateur theatrical producer named john reber devised a plan to solve all of san francisco bay’s water and transportion problems in one fell swoop. his outrageous proposal was [...]
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