Western Neighborhoods Project

Outside Lands San Francisco

Society EN ↓ 647 episodes

Nicole Meldahl and a rotating cast of hosts from the Western Neighborhoods Project (outsidelands.org / OpenSFHistory.org) share San Francisco west side neighborhood history with humor, footnoted facts, and occasional guests.

Author

Western Neighborhoods Project

Category

Society

Podcast website

www.outsidelands.org

Latest episode

Jul 5, 2026

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Episodes

22: Carl Larsen 04.06.2013

Carl Larsen, restaurateur, chicken ranch owner, and Sunset District pioneer has perhaps one of San Francisco's most-viewed parks named after him.

21: Park Bums 30.05.2013

Golden Gate Park's pickup baseball legends, the Park Bums, and other pickup ball-playing stories and locales.

20: Beach Chalet 24.05.2013

Talking about the old and new Beach Chalet on the western edge of Golden Gate Park at Ocean Beach.

19: Forts and Fortifications 18.05.2013

Guest John Martini talks historic forts and fortifications around the Golden Gate and Ocean Beach.

18: George Turner Marsh and the Naming of the Richmond 09.05.2013

The interesting life of George Turner Marsh, pioneer of the Richmond District and possible namer of the neighborhood.

17: Hills of San Francisco 02.05.2013

David and Woody review a 54-year-old book that inspired both of them.

16: Sunnyside Conservatory 25.04.2013

The story behind an octagonal San Francisco landmark on Monterey Boulevard.

15: Earthquake Shacks 18.04.2013

After San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and Fire over 5,600 relief cottages were constructed for the refugees. Some still survive today.

14: San Francisco Zoo 12.04.2013

Bricks of pink popcorn, the Little Puffer train, Storyland, lions, tigers, and bears... join Woody and David in remembering the history of the San Francisco Zoo.

13: Sunset Architecture 04.04.2013

San Francisco's largest neighborhood has its own distinctive architecture thanks to 1930s merchant-builders like Henry Doelger, Oliver Rousseau, and the Gellerts.

12: Richmond District Streetcars? 29.03.2013

Guest Paul Rosenberg talks about the source of rails recently uncovered on Balboa Street.

11: Ingleside Jail and More 20.03.2013

The History of the House of Refuge Lot, where City College of San Francisco and Balboa Park stand today.

10: Roadhouses 14.03.2013

Roadhouses here and gone on San Francisco's west side.

9: West Portal Creek 08.03.2013

Hidden creek near San Francisco's West Portal neighborhood and other secret water sites.

8: Surf Theatre 21.02.2013

Remembering a little theatre near Ocean Beach that had a big reputation for showing foreign and avant garde films.

7: Skytram 14.02.2013

From 1955 to 1966 a futuristic aerial cable car traversed Sutro Baths' cove from the Cliff House to Point Lobos. From all accounts, it wasn't as fun as it sounds.

6: Musee Mecanique 07.02.2013

What other museum allows you to play with the collection? The coin-operated amusements of the Musee Mecanique, now at Pier 45, had a long history in western San Francisco.

5: West Side Street Naming 31.01.2013

The names of streets going south through the Richmond and Sunset Districts are alphabetical. How did that happen? The story of San Francisco's Street Naming Commission of 1909.

4: St. Francis Wood 25.01.2013

Author Richard Brandi joins us to talk about one of the country's finest residence parks, San Francisco's St. Francis Wood.

3: Jesse B Cook Collection 17.01.2013

We share one terrific online collection of historical San Francisco images: the Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks at the Bancroft Library.

2: The Richmond District of 1920 10.01.2013

David and Woody find some surprises in a neighborhood newspaper from exactly 93 years ago.

1: Kezar Stadium 04.01.2013

(Listen to Episode #224 instead!) Woody and David discuss the old Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park

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