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San Francisco History Podcast – Sparkletack

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by Richard Miller

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San Francisco history stories

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May 18, 2009

San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.18.09

THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1922: Flappers in the newspapers <h2>May 19, 1922 Flappers</h2> <a href="http://www.sparkletack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/flapper.jpg"><img src="http://www.sparkletack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/flapper_sm.jpg" alt="flapper_sm" title="flapper_sm" class="imgpageborder" /></a>Right off the bat I have to admit the fact that -- to paraphrase Olympia Dukakis in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093565/">Moonstruck</a> -- what I don't know about San Francisco in the 1920s is a lot. I did know that all sorts of great Prohibition and gangster stuff must have gone on, though, so I started leafing through a couple of 1922 editions of the Chronicle looking for stories. And was immediately distracted by the flappers. You know, <a href="http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm">flappers</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brooks">Louise Brooks</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker">Josephine Baker</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Fitzgerald">Zelda Fitzgerald</a> ... <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">read on ... </a>

May 11, 2009

San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.11.09

THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1879: Stoddard, Stevenson, and Rincon Hill <h2>Sometime in 1879: The house on Rincon Hill</h2> Last week I read to you from <a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/32760/s?kw=Charles%20Stoddard%20Footprints%20Padres" target="_blank">In the Footprints of the Padres</a>, Charles Warren Stoddard's 1902 reminiscences about the early days of San Francisco. That piece recounted a boyhood adventure, but this book is full of California stories from the latter years of the 19th century; some deservedly obscure, but some that ring pretty loud bells. Todays' short text is a great example of the latter, one that dovetails beautifully with two other San Francisco stories, both of which I've talked about at Sparkletack: the story of the <a href="http://www.sparkletack.com/2009/02/09/san-francisco-timecapsule-020909/">Second Street Cut</a> and the visit of <a href="http://www.sparkletack.com/2006/02/17/robert-louis-stevenson-chinatown-treasure/">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>. The now all-grown-up Stoddard had returned to San Francisco after the Polynesian peregrinations that would inspire his best-known work, and Stevenson had just arrived from Scotland in hot pursuit of the woman he loved. The two authors hit it off, and -- as you'll hear at the end of today's Timecapsule -- it's to Stoddard and the house on Rincon Hill that we owe Stevenson's eventual fascination with the South Seas. <blockquote> <h2><img src="http://www.sparkletack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/charles_warren_stoddard1.png" alt="charles warren stoddard" title="charles warren stoddard" class="imgpageborder" />South Park and Rincon Hill! </h2> Do the native sons of the golden West ever recall those names and think what dignity they once conferred upon the favored few who basked in the sunshine of their prosperity? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park,_San_Francisco">South Park</a>, with its line of omnibuses running across the city to North Beach; its long, narrow oval, filled with dusty foliage and offering a very weak apology for a park; its two rows of houses with, a formal air, all looking very much alike, and all evidently feeling their importance. There were young people's "parties" in those days, and the height of felicity was to be invited to them. As a height o'ertops a hollow, so <a href="http://www.spur.org/documents/030101_article_02.shtm">Rincon Hill</a> looked down upon South Park. There was more elbow-room on the breezy height; not that the height was so high or so broad, but it was breezy; and there was room for the breeze to blow over gardens that spread about the detached houses their wealth of color and perfume. How are the mighty fallen! The Hill, of course, had the farthest to fall. South Parkites merely moved out: they went to another and a better place. There was a decline in respectability and the rent-roll, and no one thinks of South Park now, -- at least no one speaks of it above a whisper. <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">read on ... </a>

May 4, 2009

San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.04.09

THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1854: A future poet's boyhood outing <h2><a href="http://www.sparkletack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/charles_warren_stoddard.png"><img src="http://www.sparkletack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/charles_warren_stoddard.png" alt="charles_warren_stoddard" title="charles_warren_stoddard" class="imgpageborder" />Spring 1854 Charles Warren Stoddard</h2> </a>In 1854, the down-on-their-luck Stoddard family set off from New York City to try their luck in that brand new metropolis of the West: San Francisco. <a href="http://www.glbtq.com/literature/stoddard_cw.html">Charles Warren Stoddard</a> was just 11 years old, and San Francisco -- still in the throes of the Gold Rush, a vital, chaotic, cosmopolitan stew pot -- was the most exciting place a little boy could dream of. Charles would grow up to play a crucial part in San Francisco's burgeoning literary scene. He was just a teenager when his first poems were published in the Golden Era, and his talent and sweet personality were such that he developed long-lasting friendships with the other usual-suspect San Francisco bohemians, <a href="http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/06/20/book-review-oakley-halls-ambrose-bierce-mystery-novels/">Ambrose Bierce</a>, Ina Coolbrith, Bret Harte, and <a href="http://www.sparkletack.com/2008/12/01/timecapsule-podcast-san-francisco-december-1-7/">Samuel Clemens</a>. Stoddard is probably best remembered for the mildly homo-erotic <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=wkoXAAAAYAAJ&dq=charles+warren+stoddard+bibliography&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=bOj9Sb7SAZ_utQOb5qziAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=12#PPP1,M1">short stories</a> inspired by his extensive travels in the South Seas, but in 1902 he published a kind of memoir entitled <a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/32760/s?kw=Charles%20Stoddard%20Footprints%20Padres" target="_blank">In the Footprints of the Padres</a>. As the old song goes, it recalls "the days of old, the days of gold, the days of '49" from a very personal point of view. The reviewers of the New York Times praised the work for Stoddard's "vivid and poetic charm", but I have to admit that I'm mainly in it for his memories. <a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/32760/s?kw=Charles%20Stoddard%20Footprints%20Padres"><img src="http://www.sparkletack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/footprints_of_the_padres.png" alt="footprints_of_the_padres" title="footprints_of_the_padres" class="imgpage" /></a>In this piece, Charles and his little gang of pals are about to embark on a day-long ramble along the north-eastern edge of the city. Let's roll the clock back to 1854, and with Charles' help, put ourselves into the shoes of an 11-year-old boy anticipating the freedom of a sunny spring Saturday. <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">read on ... </a>

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