San Francisco History Podcast – Sparkletack

By Richard Miller

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San Francisco history stories

Episode Date
Sparkletack.
Feb 16, 2014
OldSF.org – Map of the San Francisco Public Library’s Historical Photo Collection
Aug 24, 2011
Bimbo’s 365 Club
Aug 04, 2010
SepiaTown — a virtual San Francisco
Feb 25, 2010
“Frisco”? I think not.
Feb 14, 2010
Lefty O’Doul Hall of Fame Campaign
Jan 16, 2010
Gangs of San Francisco
Dec 14, 2009
A map that’s just my type
Oct 30, 2009
Lefty O’Doul’s green suit — in color
May 29, 2009
Inspiration! “Secret Histories of San Francisco”
May 25, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.18.09
May 18, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.11.09
May 11, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.04.09
May 04, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 04.20.09
Apr 20, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 04.13.09
Apr 13, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 04.06.09
Apr 06, 2009
The mysterious letter “E”
Mar 31, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.30.09
Mar 30, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.23.09
Mar 23, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.09.09
Mar 10, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 03.02.09
Mar 02, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.23.09
Feb 23, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.16.09
Feb 16, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.09.09
Feb 09, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 02.02.09
Feb 02, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.26.09
Jan 26, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.19.09
Jan 19, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.12.09
Jan 12, 2009
Emperor Norton Day: “Le Roi est Mort”
Jan 09, 2009
Sparkletack Interview: Amateur Traveler Podcast transcript!
Jan 06, 2009
San Francisco Timecapsule: 01.05.09
Jan 05, 2009
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 22-31
Dec 22, 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 15-21
Dec 15, 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 8-14
Dec 08, 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, December 1-7
Dec 01, 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 24-30
Nov 24, 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 17-23
Nov 17, 2008
Zoe the Pirate returns to Treasure Island
Nov 13, 2008
Sparkletack Interview: Amateur Traveler Podcast
Nov 11, 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 10-16
Nov 10, 2008
San Francisco toothpick contraption, 35 YEARS in the making
Nov 04, 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, November 3-9
Nov 03, 2008
Timecapsule podcast: San Francisco, October 27-November 2
Oct 27, 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, October 20-26
Oct 20, 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, October 13-19
Oct 13, 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, October 6-12
Oct 06, 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, September 29-October 5
Sep 29, 2008
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, September 22-28
Sep 22, 2008
Something new: weekly Time-capsule podcast, September 15-21
Sep 18, 2008
Lana Turner — a San Francisco noir
Sep 15, 2008
Sunset neighborhood — televised history tour
Aug 28, 2008
Vintage snapshots of San Francisco pt. 2: Google-mapped
Aug 18, 2008
Faded time capsule — vintage snapshots of San Francisco
Aug 13, 2008
Kitchen Sisters on NPR: “Birth of Rice-A-Roni”
Aug 08, 2008
Grandpa’s archives: San Francisco Chronicle aerial photo ca. 1949
Aug 01, 2008
SFWeekly: “Nonconformity Still Reigns”
Jul 02, 2008
Bullitt: the greatest car chase ever (from space!)
Jul 01, 2008
book review: Oakley Hall’s “Ambrose Bierce Mystery Novels”
Jun 20, 2008
And I quote: “Buried Treasure in San Francisco?”
Jun 12, 2008
book review — “Historic Photos of San Francisco”
May 26, 2008
SFist: “A Jitney Elopement” — Charlie Chaplin’s San Francisco film
Apr 30, 2008
Pacifica is back!
Apr 11, 2008
sparkletack facebook group
Apr 08, 2008
tour review — san francisco ghost walk
Apr 06, 2008
san francisco steam coffee?
Mar 21, 2008
sparkletack reviewed by “San Francisco City Guides”
Mar 16, 2008
SFist — “not even jackassable”
Mar 14, 2008
1907 harrison street mainline — photographic google map
Feb 25, 2008
SFist — whiskerless waiters at the palace hotel
Feb 19, 2008
book review — “The Bottle Imp”
Feb 15, 2008
The fog rolls in — 24 hours in 144 seconds
Feb 12, 2008
#66: Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
Feb 03, 2008
SFist — “Leg Bones for Baseball Bats”
Jan 24, 2008
tour review — victorian home walk
Jan 05, 2008
SFist — tippling with kipling, san francisco 1889
Dec 05, 2007
“the good herb” — yerba buena
Dec 01, 2007
SFist — san francisco, “the paris of the west”
Nov 26, 2007
the winnah and undisputed champeen
Nov 15, 2007
’39 world’s fair butterfly
Nov 10, 2007
screwball time-traveling noir: the bay time detective
Oct 17, 2007
love letter — san francisco history center
Oct 08, 2007
#65: Memories of an Argonaut
Sep 25, 2007
book review — “Treasure Island; San Francisco’s Exhibition Years”
Sep 22, 2007
1938 san francisco street map
Aug 28, 2007
#64: San Francisco’s Treasure Island (pt. 2)
Aug 27, 2007
“story of treasure island” transcript online
Aug 24, 2007
SFist — anniversary of a flesh wound
Aug 22, 2007
poll: choose your favourite sparkletack episode!
Aug 05, 2007
#63: San Francisco’s Treasure Island (pt. 1)
Aug 05, 2007
“mr. summers’ 1941 vacation” — prelinger archive
Jul 17, 2007
book review — “San Francisco Almanac”
Jul 02, 2007
SFist — mark twain torched lake tahoe?
Jun 29, 2007
#62: Samuel Holladay, Pioneer Squatter of Lafayette Park
Jun 22, 2007
SFist — island for sale…
Jun 20, 2007
SFist — sands-can-drift-so
Jun 11, 2007
vintage san francisco maps — on the cheap!
Jun 08, 2007
tour review – pacific heights (sf architectural heritage)
Jun 05, 2007
SFist — at least today they’re being shot with cameras
May 30, 2007
7×7 san francisco — on the newstands now
May 30, 2007
#61: Lefty O’Doul — The Man in the Green Suit
May 28, 2007
drafted by the SFist!
May 25, 2007
buried history
May 10, 2007
7×7 san francisco
May 08, 2007
a sparkletack tour of san francisco
May 04, 2007
#60: Starr King and the California Civil War (pt. 2)
Apr 27, 2007
tour review — ferry building (sf city guides)
Apr 12, 2007
sparkletack interviewed – VerySpatial podcast
Apr 11, 2007
#59: Starr King and the California Civil War (pt. 1)
Apr 09, 2007
book review — “River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West”
Mar 14, 2007
mission street railroad graphic
Mar 09, 2007
#58: The Crocker Spite Fence
Feb 21, 2007
book review — Mark Twain’s “Roughing It”
Jan 10, 2007
tour review — 1906: phoenix rising (sf city guides)
Jan 09, 2007
sparkletack interrupted… an update
Aug 21, 2006
announcement: sparkletack takes a break
May 08, 2006
#57: The Reber Plan for San Francisco Bay
May 08, 2006
#56: Lotta Crabtree — the San Francisco Favourite
Apr 30, 2006
#55: Caruso, the Palace, and the 1906 earthquake
Apr 16, 2006
#54: The Notorious Lola Montez
Apr 08, 2006
Tour Review — Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco
Apr 06, 2006
#53: The Bella Union and the Barbary Coast
Apr 01, 2006
#52.5: The Trolls of San Francisco
Apr 01, 2006
#52: Adolph Sutro, the Populist Millionaire
Mar 25, 2006
Tour Review — Chinatown Alleyway Tours
Mar 22, 2006
#51: The Columbarium and the Caretaker
Mar 19, 2006
#50: The Balclutha and the Chantey Sing
Mar 11, 2006
#49: Sam Clemens and the Celebrated Jumping Frog
Mar 04, 2006
#48: Mark Twain and the Great Earthquake of 1865
Feb 25, 2006
#47: Robert Louis Stevenson — Chinatown Treasure
Feb 18, 2006
#46: San Francisco Fortune Cookie
Feb 11, 2006
#45: Frank Chu Just Shows Up
Feb 04, 2006
Thank You!
Jan 30, 2006
#44: Moving the Dead — San Francisco Cemeteries
Jan 28, 2006
#43: San Francisco Motorcycle Club — Since 1904
Jan 21, 2006
#42: Alexander Leidesdorff — The Black Millionaire
Jan 14, 2006
#41: The Golden Gate Bridge, a Modest Proposal
Jan 07, 2006
#40: Luisa Tetrazzini and Christmas eve
Dec 31, 2005
#39: The Great Diamond Hoax
Dec 17, 2005
#38: Rudyard Kipling in San Francisco
Dec 10, 2005
#37: Philo T. Farnsworth
Dec 03, 2005
#36: Birth of San Francisco #3
Nov 26, 2005
#35: Birth of San Francisco #2
Nov 19, 2005
#34: The San Francisco Twins
Nov 12, 2005
#33: Andrew Smith Hallidie — Father of the Cable Car
Nov 05, 2005
#32: Letter from the Gold Rush, 1850
Oct 28, 2005
#31: Carville — A Lost Neighborhood
Oct 22, 2005
#30: Streets of San Francisco #2
Oct 15, 2005
#29: The Legend of Black Bart
Oct 07, 2005
#28: Birth of San Francisco #1
Sep 30, 2005
#27: Patty Hearst, revolutionary sweetheart
Sep 23, 2005
#26: Streets of San Francisco #1
Sep 16, 2005
#25: Charles Cora and the 2nd Vigilance Committee
Sep 09, 2005
#24: Alcatraz
Sep 03, 2005
#23: The Wave Organ
Aug 26, 2005
#22: The China Clipper
Aug 20, 2005
#21: Emperor Norton
Aug 12, 2005
#20: Fog City
Aug 05, 2005
#19: The Mission Burrito
Jul 30, 2005
#18: Firebelle Lil — Elizabeth “Lillie” Coit
Jul 22, 2005
#17: The San Francisco “Conversation”
Jul 15, 2005
#16: San Francisco Pyramid
Jul 09, 2005
#15: The Golden Gate Bridge and Suicide
Jul 02, 2005
#14: The Golden Fire Hydrant of San Francisco
Jun 25, 2005
#13: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Jun 19, 2005
#12: San Francisco Blue Jeans
Jun 15, 2005
#11: Straight Razor Morning
Jun 12, 2005
#10: The Ruination of Fatty Arbuckle
Jun 06, 2005
#9: Schadenfreude and San Francisco High Society
Jun 04, 2005
#8: Corpseflower at San Francisco Conservatory
Jun 02, 2005
#7: San Francisco Shanghai
May 27, 2005
#6: Where’s The Food?
May 25, 2005
#5: San Francisco Fireworks – On The Air
May 23, 2005
#4: Steam Beer – The Authentic San Francisco Style
May 21, 2005
#3: Street Flowers
May 18, 2005
#2: Dogs In The Pharoah
May 17, 2005
Sparkletack #1
May 15, 2005