Treasure Island, named after Robert Louis Stevenson's novel of the same title, sprang full-blown from the Bay, completely manmade. AKA,...

Golden Gate Park has something for everyone, including a chain-link "basket" disc golf course. Just off JFK Boulevard in the central...

Move over Sutro Baths. This is the once grand Alexandria movie theater in the Richmond District. Opened in 1923. Its Egyptian motif is a...

California Street starts at the cable car turnaround next to the Embarcadero Hyatt Hotel. It cuts clear across San Francisco over Nob...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Ehru. Essentially a 2-string violin, dating back over a thousand years in China. The Ehru is one of...

For young locals, Ocean Beach late-night bonfire parties were something of a rite-of-passage. Today, they are only allowed in a certain...

Look closely and you still see reminders of San Francisco before tech. Here a pickup truck in the outer Avenues is piled high with empty...

Over the centuries shipwrecks by the hundreds have been reported in and around the rocky, foggy entrance to San Francisco Bay. This is...

I stopped by this eye-catching exhibit at the SF County Sheriff's table during San Francisco History Days at the Old Mint at 5th &...

OK, it's the Fort Mason Community Garden.  There are 125 plots available, most 20x5 feet. Membership dues are $125 annually. You may...

A steaming ration of marketing is served on Maiden Lane, SF.

In recent years, archeologists from the Presidio have been excavating the very foundation of "El Presidio," the original Spanish fort...

For generations you could rent a horse and ride the shady trails through Golden Gate Park. That ended years ago; the nearby stables are...

A more than century-old ceremony. Where the Powell Street cable car reaches the turntable at Market Street -- the end of the line. A...

A temporary public art installation so captured the public imagination, that it was made permanent. Thousands of light emitting diodes...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! This artwork is the logo of "The Irish Mob" page on Facebook. All about the Irish and their contribution to...

Mayan-inspired Art Deco, who knew? This is 450 Sutter, known locally as "The Medical Building." Designed by San Francisco architect...

A while back, Ocean Beach Safeway replaced the two large disc-shaped corporate "S" logos on the front of the store, with murals devoted...

The lobby of St. Mary's Hospital. Fulton & Stanyan.

I'm no connoisseur of bird baths, but this one looks old. Like Disney-era, while Walt was still alive. The house is going through a major...