http://www.sparkletack.com San Francisco history stories Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:00:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 2006-2008 richard@sparkletack.com (Richard Miller) richard@sparkletack.com (Richard Miller) History 1440 http://www.sparkletack.com/wp-content/img/sparkletackRSS.jpg http://www.sparkletack.com 144 144 Stories unearthed from the history of San Francisco, the "city that knows how". Stories unearthed from the history of San Francisco, the "city that knows how". San Francisco,California,history,stories,travel,Golden Gate,Chinatown,Bay Area,Gold Rush,Emperor Norton Richard Miller Richard Miller richard@sparkletack.com no no http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/03/14/sfist-not-even-jackassable/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/03/14/sfist-not-even-jackassable/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:42:49 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/03/14/sfist-not-even-jackassable/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/03/14/sfist-not-even-jackassable/feed/ 3 http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/02/19/sfist-whiskerless-waiters-at-the-palace-hotel/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/02/19/sfist-whiskerless-waiters-at-the-palace-hotel/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:40:05 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/02/19/sfist-whiskerless-waiters-at-the-palace-hotel/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/02/19/sfist-whiskerless-waiters-at-the-palace-hotel/feed/ 2 http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/01/24/sfist-leg-bones-for-baseball-bats/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/01/24/sfist-leg-bones-for-baseball-bats/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:55:14 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/01/24/sfist-leg-bones-for-baseball-bats/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/01/24/sfist-leg-bones-for-baseball-bats/feed/ 5 http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/12/05/sfist-tippling-with-kipling-san-francisco-1889/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/12/05/sfist-tippling-with-kipling-san-francisco-1889/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:26:53 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/12/05/sfist-tippling-with-kipling-san-francisco-1889/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/12/05/sfist-tippling-with-kipling-san-francisco-1889/feed/ 1 http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/11/26/sfist-san-francisco-the-paris-of-the-west/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/11/26/sfist-san-francisco-the-paris-of-the-west/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:00:13 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/11/26/sfist-san-francisco-the-paris-of-the-west/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/11/26/sfist-san-francisco-the-paris-of-the-west/feed/ 0 http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/08/22/sfist-anniversary-of-a-flesh-wound/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/08/22/sfist-anniversary-of-a-flesh-wound/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:21:48 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/08/22/sfist-anniversary-of-a-flesh-wound/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/08/22/sfist-anniversary-of-a-flesh-wound/feed/ 0 http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/08/05/63-san-franciscos-treasure-island-pt-1/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/08/05/63-san-franciscos-treasure-island-pt-1/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:22:30 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/08/05/63-san-franciscos-treasure-island-pt-1/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/08/05/63-san-franciscos-treasure-island-pt-1/feed/ 11 0:45:01 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 ... 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 massive white buildings, dwarfed by the towering silver Bay Bridge marching across the water towards Oakland. That bridge carries over 130,000 people a day within yards of this artificial lily pad, most of them whizzing by at 70 miles per hour without giving it a second thought. What is Treasure Island? Why is it there? And where is it going? In the first episode of this 2-part podcast series, you'll learn how politics, pride, and the Great Depression collided to spark this audacious construction project, and the story of its glamorous first occupant -- the 1939 World's Fair. Crazed seagulls, the tooth of a woolly mammoth, Irving Berlin, and a radio signal from Bombay are just a few of the elements that make this story a San Francisco classic. Skip to Part Two. For further edification: » "Trails End for '39ers" - Almanac for Thirty-Niners - WPA, 1938 » "Western Wonderland" - Time Magazine, 1939 » Gorgeous pre-Fair Publicity Film - Prelinger Archives » Newsreel footage of '39 World's Fair - Prelinger Archives » Home movie from the '39 World's Fair - Prelinger Archives » "Not So Golden Gate" - Time Magazine, 1939 » "The Legend of Yerba Buena Island" 1936 » Treasure Island - Wikipedia » Treasure Island Music Festival - Noisepop/Another Planet #20: fog city #56: Lotta Crabtree — the San Francisco Favourite “Frisco”? I think not. San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.23.09 #31: Carville — A Lost Neighborhood musical support: Thanks to Devin Anderson for musical support from the "Uniforms" motion picture score -- "Stamp Collection" and "Untitled", as well as "Monster Symphony - 1st Movement", courtesy of the PodShow PodSafe Music Network. printed bibliography: San Francisco's Treasure Island Jason Pipes - Arcadia Publishing, 2007 The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective Mel Scott - UC Press, 1989 Treasure Island : San Francisco's Exposition Years Richard Reinhardt - Scrimshaw Press, 1973 The Art of Treasure IslandEugen Neuhaus - UC Press, 1939 The Naval History of Treasure Island ed. E.A. McDevitt - Naval Training & Distribution Center, 1946 linking policy: books in print available through your local independent bookstore; out of print books through abebooks.com /p> San Francisco history podcasts, SFist Richard Miller no no http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/29/sfist-mark-twain-torched-lake-tahoe/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/29/sfist-mark-twain-torched-lake-tahoe/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:30:35 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/29/sfist-mark-twain-torched-lake-tahoe/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/29/sfist-mark-twain-torched-lake-tahoe/feed/ 2 http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/20/sfist-island-for-sale/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/20/sfist-island-for-sale/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:24:08 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/20/sfist-island-for-sale/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/20/sfist-island-for-sale/feed/ 0 http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/11/sfist-sands-can-drift-so/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/11/sfist-sands-can-drift-so/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:52:09 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/11/sfist-sands-can-drift-so/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/06/11/sfist-sands-can-drift-so/feed/ 1 http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/05/30/sfist-2-at-least-today-theyre-being-shot-with-cameras/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/05/30/sfist-2-at-least-today-theyre-being-shot-with-cameras/#comments Wed, 30 May 2007 22:45:04 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/05/30/sfist-2-at-least-today-theyre-being-shot-with-cameras/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/05/30/sfist-2-at-least-today-theyre-being-shot-with-cameras/feed/ 0 http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/05/25/drafted-by-the-sfist/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/05/25/drafted-by-the-sfist/#comments Fri, 25 May 2007 22:35:42 +0000 richard - sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/05/25/drafted-by-the-sfist/ http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/05/25/drafted-by-the-sfist/feed/ 2