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The secrets of the San Francisco Columbarium FacebookTwitterEmail The Columbarium, 1 Loraine Court, San Francisco.Andrew Chamings Most Bay Area folk know the oft-repeated fact that the Colma has more dead bodies than living ones — its true and its not even close. The town, formed in 1924 as one of Americas only necropolises, has a living population of about 1,700, but entombs about 1.5 million bodies. The reason that the little town a few miles south of San Francisco is one big graveyard is t...

Cheap rent and questionable use: A look at the CA State Parks employee housing program State Parks employees are encouraged to live on the natural resources they protect so that they have access to serving the public at all hours. But some are questioning if the program is better designed to serve government workers than it is the public. Share Updated: 10:43 AM PDT Apr 16, 2021 Caitlin Conrad Cheap rent and questionable use: A look at the CA State Parks employee housing p...

Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. - Last New Years Eve-December 31, 2020-was a sad day in San Francisco, marking the permanent closure of the historic Cliff House. As the signs individual letters were removed and lowered to the ground one-by-one, a crowd gathered to witness the momentous occasion. Sad as that scene was, though, prior generations of San Franciscans have witnessed similar events at the very same location many times before. From its first incarnation in 1863 (not 1858...

"I couldnt live out there in all that fog." This comment, so often offered when someone found I was a resident of the Avenues used to puzzle me. I thought it wasnt foggy enough. Sure its often overcast in the Richmond and Sunset, but that isnt real fog. As opposed to the dull slate of overcast skies, fog is a sensual banquet. You can taste fog, feel the wet mist on your skin, see how its cottony skein erases the world halfway down the block. And fog, so silent, is always accompanied here by the...

Please Donate Unraveling the Mystery of Two 1890s Richmond District Houses Sleuthing in the Digital Age Unraveling the Mystery of Two 1890s Richmond District Houses The Low family at Sutro Baths with an unusual floatation system for their child, 1890s. - I always perk up when someone says they have old photos from San Francisco that need location identification. Sometimes I’m lucky and know the site; other times there is too little to go on. A grouping of contemporary photos, like in an al...

Naming the Richmond District by Woody LaBounty George Turner Marsh, Asian Art importer whose estate provided inspiration for naming the Richmond District. - In early 2009, thanks to the efforts of local historian (and WNP member) John Freeman and District One Supervisor Eric Mar, San Franciscos Richmond District officially reclaimed its name. The Board of Supervisors passed ordinance 36-09 on March 3, 2009 to designate the neighborhood bounded by Arguello Boulevard, Ocean Beach, Lake Street,...

Heres the fiery, doomed history of San Franciscos Cliff House FacebookTwitterEmail The Cliff House, circa 1900OpenSFHistory From a dynamite-laden exploding schooner to earthquakes and numerous fires, heres a closer look at the institutions often doomed history, and its repeated rebirths. In 1858, Samuel Brannan — the man who shouted "Gold! Gold on the American River!" on the streets of San Francisco and became the first Gold Rush millionaire — paid $1,500 for lumber salvaged from a shipwrec...

Million-dollar views, cheap rent and allegations of favoritism at California state parks Melody Gutierrez © Provided by The LA Times Cottage 21, foreground, and Cottage 17, two doors down, at Crystal Cove State Park are rented to California parks department employees at below-market rates under a program created to allow essential workers to live close to the natural treasures they protect or maintain. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Its a coveted perk for state parks ...

Print It’s a coveted perk for state parks employees: For just a few hundred dollars a month, they can live in government-owned homes in some of California’s most scenic and sought-after locations — beachfront cottages, historic houses in pricey neighborhoods and cabins surrounded by stretches of pristine wilderness. The benefit was created so California Department of Parks and Recreation staff could live close to the natural treasures they protect or maintain. But the well-intentioned pr...

At Crystal Cove State Park a state parks employee lives in a shorefront cottage for $232 a month. Next door, cottages are advertised as vacation rentals for up to $269 a night.