SF History

01 Apr 2019

Salesforce to Paint Golden Gate Bridge Blue For Dreamforce Conference

Every September downtown San Francisco is completely overrun by Salesforce’s giant Dreamforce conference. Thousands of people come from around the world to do whatever it is that people do at Dreamforce, while the city’s already hellish traffic is made considerably worse by the closing down of streets near Moscone Center.

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19 Mar 2019

How to Make Friends in San Francisco

Are you new to the city?  Maybe you’re an engineer who’s a bit socially awkward, or marketing intern fresh out of college?  Maybe you’ve made enough Fortnite friends this year, and it’s just time you met some real-life people? Anyway, whatever it is, don’t worry.  We have some foolproof ways

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19 Mar 2019

Growing up in San Francisco: A Middle Class, Catholic School Gal

By Adlyn South Donahan From the 1960’s to the early 2000’s, Catholic schools reigned top dog when it came to first choice education for the middle class. In San Francisco, every district had a Catholic school you could send your kid to. After K-8th grade, there were a plethora of

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29 Jan 2019

Lucca Ravioli is Closing on Valencia St. And that Sucks

OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY BENDER’S BECAUSE THEY ARE BADASS. DROP BY AND MAKE SOME BAD DECISIONS WITH SOME GOOD PEOPLE! The place where I used to buy freshly made tagliarini with Lucca’s own meat sauce for ‘treat yo self’ style Italian dinners at home, is officially closing.  Lucca’s Ravioli Co is one of

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23 Jan 2019

Explore 1930s San Francisco in This Amazing Giant Scale Model

If you have ever wondered what life in San Francisco looked like in 1940, you will now have a chance to see it for yourself in incredible detail that reaches only 11 inches tall. The scale model took two years to build but has been missing for decades, until now.

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02 Jan 2019

Blur Bar in SF Is Soon to Be a Thing of the Past

The face of Polk Street is changing. Period. But then again, what San Francisco neighborhood is safe from the dreaded “G” word anymore? Little by little, the constants that delivered debauchery and delectable (or dicey) dining that once defined the district are slipping away into a soon-to-be distant past. It

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10 Dec 2018

San Francisco is the City Where you Can’t….

The story goes that, the day after breaking ground for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, President William H. Taft, the last of our exquisitely mustachioed Commander-in-Chiefs, toasted San Francisco as “The City that Knows How.” It had been less than a decade since the Great Conflagration had burned most of The City to the ground, and President Taft was in awe at the incredible speed at which San Francisco had managed to rebuild.

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04 Dec 2018

It’s the LAST DAY to Get the Limited Edition BAS Poster!

Today is the very last day you can get your hands on this badass, limited edition, signed BAS poster. That’s right, after today it will be gone! All you gotta do is become a member of the $15 tier on my Patreon page. That said, as we’ve seen so many

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