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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 — it's true and it's not even close. The town, formed in 1924 as one of America's 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 the mass (and pretty gruesome) movement of bodies that occurred a century ago. But one beautiful b...

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 program State Parks employees are encouraged to live on the natural resources they protect so that th...

Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. - Last New Year's Eve-December 31, 2020-was a sad day in San Francisco, marking the permanent closure of the historic Cliff House. As the sign's 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 as some assert-that date refers to a restaurant of another name in a different location), the Cli...

"I couldn't 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 wasn't foggy enough. Sure it's often overcast in the Richmond and Sunset, but that isn't 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 doleful bellowing of foghorns. As kids we knew the foghorn variations. We mimicked the cadences...

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 album, adds more clues to find locations. I recently was presented with a series of photos in two albu...