- Lefty O'Doul's green suit -- in color
- Inspiration! "Secret Histories of San Francisco"
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.18.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.11.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.04.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 04.20.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 04.13.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 04.06.09
- The mysterious letter "E"
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.30.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.23.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.09.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.02.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.23.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.16.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.09.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.02.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.26.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.19.09
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.12.09
- Emperor Norton Day: "Le Roi est Mort"
- Sparkletack Interview: Amateur Traveler Podcast transcript!
- San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.05.09
- Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 22-31
- Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 15-21
- Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 8-14
- Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 1-7
- Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 24-30
- Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 17-23
- Zoe the Pirate returns to Treasure Island
- Sparkletack Interview: Amateur Traveler Podcast
- Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 10-16
- San Francisco toothpick contraption, 35 YEARS in the making
- Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 3-9
- Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, October 27-November 2
- Timecapsule podcast -- San Francisco, October 20-26
- Timecapsule podcast -- San Francisco, October 13-19
- Timecapsule podcast -- San Francisco, October 6-12
- Timecapsule podcast -- San Francisco, September 29-October 5
- Sparkletack's quirky San Francisco chronology
- Timecapsule podcast -- San Francisco, September 22-28
- Something new: weekly Time-capsule podcast, September 15-21
- Lana Turner -- a San Francisco noir
- Sunset neighborhood -- televised history tour
- Vintage snapshots of San Francisco pt. 2: Google-mapped
- Faded time capsule -- vintage snapshots of San Francisco
- Kitchen Sisters on NPR: "Birth of Rice-A-Roni"
- Grandpa's archives: San Francisco Chronicle aerial photo ca. 1949
- book review: Oakley Hall's “Ambrose Bierce Mystery Novels”
- And I quote: "Buried Treasure in San Francisco?"
- SFist: "A Jitney Elopement" -- Charlie Chaplin's San Francisco film
- Pacifica is back!
- sparkletack facebook group
- tour review -- san francisco ghost walk
- san francisco steam coffee?
- sparkletack reviewed by "San Francisco City Guides"
- SFist -- "not even jackassable"
- 1907 harrison street mainline -- photographic google map
- SFist -- whiskerless waiters at the palace hotel
- book review -- "The Bottle Imp"
- the fog rolls in -- 24 hours in 144 seconds
- #66: alma de bretteville spreckels
- Thank you!
- SFist -- san francisco, "the paris of the west"
- the winnah and undisputed champeen
- '39 world's fair butterfly
- 1938 san francisco street map
- #64: san francisco's treasure island (pt. 2)
- "story of treasure island" transcript online
- SFist -- anniversary of a flesh wound
- poll: choose your favourite sparkletack episode!
- #63: san francisco's treasure island (pt. 1)
- SFist -- mark twain torched lake tahoe?
- #62: samuel holladay, pioneer squatter of lafayette park
- SFist -- island for sale...
- SFist -- sands-can-drift-so
- vintage san francisco maps -- on the cheap!
- tour review — pacific heights (sf architectural heritage)
- what's a podcast (or a blog)?
- SFist -- at least today they're being shot with cameras
- 7x7 san francisco -- on the newstands now
- You can help!
- #61: lefty o'doul -- the man in the green suit
- drafted by the SFist!
- buried history
- 7x7 san francisco
- a sparkletack tour of san francisco
- #60: starr king and the california civil war (pt. 2)
- Contemporary San Francisco
- tour review -- ferry building (sf city guides)
- sparkletack interviewed - VerySpatial podcast
- #59: starr king and the california civil war (pt. 1)
- book review -- "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West"
- mission street railroad graphic
- San Francisco History -- the Good Stuff!
- book review -- Mark Twain's "Roughing It"
- tour review -- 1906: phoenix rising (sf city guides)
- #56: lotta crabtree -- the san francisco favourite
- #55: caruso, the palace, and the 1906 earthquake
- #54: the notorious lola montez
- tour review -- dashiell hammett's san francisco
- #53: the bella union and the barbary coast
- #52.5: the trolls of san francisco
- #52: adolph sutro, the populist millionaire
- tour review -- chinatown alleyway tours
- #51: the columbarium and the caretaker
- #50: the balclutha and the chantey sing
- #49: sam clemens and the celebrated jumping frog
- #48: mark twain and the great earthquake of 1865
- #47: robert louis stevenson -- chinatown treasure
- #46: san francisco fortune cookie
- #45: frank chu just shows up
- thank you!
- #44: moving the dead -- san francisco cemeteries
- #43: san francisco motorcycle club -- since 1904
- #42: alexander leidesdorff -- the black millionaire
- #41: the golden gate bridge, a modest proposal
- #40: luisa tetrazzini and christmas eve
- #39: the great diamond hoax
- #38: rudyard kipling in san francisco
- #37: philo t. farnsworth
- #36: birth of san francisco #3
- #35: birth of san francisco #2
- #34: the san francisco twins
- #33: andrew smith hallidie -- father of the cable car
- #32: letter from the gold rush, 1850
- #31: carville -- a lost neighborhood
- #30: streets of san francisco #2
- #29: the legend of black bart
- #28: birth of san francisco #1
- #27: patty hearst, revolutionary sweetheart
- #26: streets of san francisco #1
- #25: charles cora and the 2nd vigilance committee
- #24: alcatraz
- #19: the mission burrito
- #18: firebelle lil -- elizabeth "lillie" coit
- #17: the san francisco "conversation"
- #16: san francisco pyramid
- #15: the golden gate bridge and suicide
- #14: the golden fire hydrant of san francisco
- #13: the wild parrots of telegraph hill
- #12: san francisco blue jeans
- #11: straight razor morning
- #10: the ruination of fatty arbuckle
- #9: schadenfreude and san francisco high society
- #8: corpseflower at san francisco conservatory
- #7: san francisco shanghai
- #6: where's the food?
- #5: san francisco fireworks - on the air
- #4: steam beer - the authentic san francisco style
- #3: street flowers
- #2: dogs in the pharoah
- sparkletack #1
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