Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle culture critic; #TotalSF co-founder & podcast host. Spends too much time in the archive. S.F. 🌁 Oaktown 🌳 Alameda ⚓️

[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

The Chronicle building turns 100 this week!

🗞️🎂🥂

I wouldn't have known about our birthday — no one would — if it weren't for a mysterious black photo book passed through generations of @sfchronicle librarians.

A short thread ... 🧵

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[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

@behthere Thank you!! Chronicle is great about featuring my stories. But my columns are generally not breaking news & occasionally get lost on the site on a very busy news day.

Thanks for reading!! 🗞️❤️

[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

This was such a delightful surprise.

Tied for Sutro Baths for best Bay Area ruins to visit on a first date.

Gift link for the literary crowd 📚🐺🎁

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[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

@mateosfo Thanks!! 🙏🏼

[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

@joegarofoli @sfchronicle Thank you!! 🗞️❤️

[Joe Garofoli @joegarofoli]

As usual, I can't say it any better than @peterhartlaub about what it means to me that The Chronicle is leaving its home of 102 years. It’s not the tragedy I expected https://t.co/2nsaWxfWcf via @sfchronicle

[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

After writing eulogies for many S.F. icons — from Cliff House to Claude the alligator — how do I feel about @sfchronicle leaving 901 Mission St.?

Surprisingly OK.

My tribute to our century-old "news factory," and how to move on in a changing city.

🗞️❤️

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[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

I loved writing this, and learning how elementary school teacher "Baylands Lucy" hounded City Council meetings & saved the Bay Area's best bird-watching marsh.

But check this out for the @jachristian photos. They're sooooo lovely.

Gift link: 🎁📸🦆💯

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[Susan Slusser @susanslusser]

From @peterhartlaub Baseball was cruel to this gay trailblazer. Then the Castro District offered some grace https://t.co/dazJFP0z4T via @sfchronicle

[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

My super fun day in Sebastopol, a town with more sculptures than people?

Two highways cross in the center of downtown, but it still carries small town vibes. (Best dessert city in the Bay Area?)

Thanks @juliejohnson for the itinerary!

Gift Link 🍏🐄🎁

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[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

How did Bay to Breakers get so weird?

@thebiscuitdan.bsky.social & I used our archive superpowers to pinpoint the race's very first costumes.

Honoring two knuckleheads in tuxedos, and a general turned race director who definitely wasn't a narc.

🏃‍♀️🌁❤️

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[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

"Long before E-40 and half the Golden State Warriors bought homes in San Ramon Valley, the region was known for its prunes"

My history & travelogue of the Iron Horse Trail, Contra Costa's rails-to-trails win.

Thanks for the ride @SFBART!

Gift link 🎁🚴‍♂️

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[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

Pop quiz: 1. What is the name of the Lt. Governor of California? 2. What is the name of the turkey that terrorized citizens near the rose garden in Oakland?

Did you answer “Hell if I know” & “Gerald”?

This @sfchronicle column is for you.

Gift link 🎁🦭

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[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

Should we name our next ferry boat Humphrey? Rocco? Ride the Lightning? Frisco?😬

We received 1,500 Bay Area ferry name nominations. From Boat Milk Latte to Carbon-Free Willy to Wharf Rat and Starfleet, here’s what did and didn’t make our finals.

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[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

“You look at these pictures and go, ‘Wow, I think I saw this woman walking down Haight Street the other day.’”

Hundreds of lost Sam Crow photos are trickling into public view. His candid approach offers a window into San Francisco in the 1910s.

📸 🌁 💯

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[Jill Tucker @jilltucker]

MEMORIES: @peterhartlaub's amazing piece about how the Bay Area’s most unhinged theme park heralded Silicon Valley’s rise -- with a nod to my days as a Safari Boat tour guide
https://t.co/ZjPv3E0il9 via @sfchronicle

[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

"The end of Marine World Africa/U.S.A. in Redwood City, like the beginning, sounded completely made up."

Where I honor the bonkers theme park of our youth — and how its move cemented a Silicon Valley takeover.

Gift link for the Peninsula kids 🎁🐬🐯⬇️

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[Demian Bulwa @demianbulwa]

Gangbuster five days at the San Francisco Chronicle.

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[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

@dandibley Can we do Mt. BlowOffMore? Celebs known for being rude/condescending to journalists?

Bill Murray
Jerry Seinfeld
Harrison Ford
William Shatner

[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

@kimmaicutler Truth! I spend my time in S.F. historic archives and generational reinvention IS our history.

That’s why I don’t sweat a dead mall, and look suspiciously at political players claiming they will “save” the city.

We need to solve our problems. But it’s also a self-cleaning oven.

[Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub]

Detour from my usual @sfchronicle archive finds.

We heard the 1920s Klan filled an Oakland arena. Turns out 5,000 gathered in Daly City, they marched in Richmond's July 4 parade and burned crosses on Twin Peaks ... twice.

History has so many lessons.

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