The Chronicle building turns 100 this week!
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I wouldn't have known about our birthday โ no one would โ if it weren't for a mysterious black photo book passed through generations of @sfchronicle librarians.
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@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.
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This was such a delightful surprise.
Tied for Sutro Baths for best Bay Area ruins to visit on a first date.
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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. Itโs not the tragedy I expected https://t.co/2nsaWxfWcf via @sfchronicle
After writing eulogies for many S.F. icons โ from Cliff House to Claude the alligator โ 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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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.
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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!
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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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"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!
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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 โHell if I knowโ & โGeraldโ?
This @sfchronicle column is for you.
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Should we name our next ferry boat Humphrey? Rocco? Ride the Lightning? Frisco?๐ฌ
We received 1,500 Bay Area ferry name nominations. From Boat Milk Latte to Carbon-Free Willy to Wharf Rat and Starfleet, hereโs what did and didnโt make our finals.
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โYou look at these pictures and go, โWow, I think I saw this woman walking down Haight Street the other day.โโ
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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MEMORIES: @peterhartlaub's amazing piece about how the Bay Areaโs most unhinged theme park heralded Silicon Valleyโs rise -- with a nod to my days as a Safari Boat tour guide
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"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 โ and how its move cemented a Silicon Valley takeover.
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@dandibley Can we do Mt. BlowOffMore? Celebs known for being rude/condescending to journalists?
Bill Murray
Jerry Seinfeld
Harrison Ford
William Shatner
@kimmaicutler Truth! I spend my time in S.F. historic archives and generational reinvention IS our history.
Thatโs why I donโt sweat a dead mall, and look suspiciously at political players claiming they will โsaveโ the city.
We need to solve our problems. But itโs also a self-cleaning oven.
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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