SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7 Mile House Celebrates Its 168th Anniversary This Saturday, With $1.68 Jack Daniels Shots and More Established in 1858, 7 Mile House at the SF-Brisbane border turns 168 years old on Saturday, and is celebrating with $1.68 Jack Daniels shots, free adobo, and a presentation on the restaurant's (often outlaw) 168-year history.
Arts & Entertainment Funk Legend Sly Stone, Whose Career Was Born In SF, Has Died at 82 The founder of Sly and the Family Stone, a one-time San Francisco DJ who started the groundbreaking funk band that’s now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died Monday morning in Los Angeles from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Transamerica Pyramid Opens Time Capsule That’s Been Secretly Hiding There for 50 Years The Transamerica Pyramid just opened a time capsule of historical SF antiquities from its early days in 1974, including relics showing how much people hated it at the time, and you can check out these artifacts for yourself starting Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Kezar Stadium Turns 100 on Friday, and Boy It Used to Be a Heck of a Lot Bigger The former home field of the San Francisco 49ers (and the Raiders!) Kezar Stadium has its 100th birthday on Friday, and it was once a global attraction sports and music destination before becoming the rec-level track meet field that it is today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7 Mile House Celebrates Its 167th Anniversary This Sunday, With $1.67 Jack Daniels Shots Sunday marks the 167th anniversary of the 7 Mile House bar and restaurant, and they’ll be marking the occasion with $1.67 whiskey shots, free adobo, and a historical presentation of 7 Mile House’s (often criminal) 167-year history.
Arts & Entertainment Back In The '80s, San Francisco Banned Arcades (And Blamed Tommy Guerrero) Chronicle culture critic Peter Hartlaub pens a piece about the early ’80s when San Francisco politicians declared war on arcades and the media painted Tommy Guerrero, who was a 14-year-old skateboarding prodigy and "Scramble” wizard at the time, as a delinquent.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill 175th Anniversary Party Draws Willie Brown, Mayor Breed, and Aaron Peskin (Who Were Very Nice to Each Other) The oldest restaurant in California, Tadich Grill, celebrated its 175th anniversary on Sunday, bringing many local luminaries, with political foes Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin burying their hatchets for one brief afternoon over cioppino and crab cakes.
SF News FYI: OJ Simpson’s Father Was an Out SF Drag Queen Known as ‘Mama Simpson’ As many are remembering the complicated (mostly terrible) legacy of the late OJ Simpson today, we look back on his father, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a known SF drag queen called “Mama Simpson.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill Celebrating Its 175th Anniversary This Month, With $1.75 Bloody Marys And More SF’s legendary steak-and-seafood place Tadich Grill just kicked off its 175th anniversary celebration, and the third-oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US will get sweet and savory with $1.75 Bloody Marys and a “Tadich swag giveaway” every day all month.
SF News This Week Is the 50th Anniversary of the Patty Hearst Kidnapping, One of SF’s All-Time Wildest Stories SF headlines of the mid-1970s were dominated by the saga of Patty Hearst, an heiress who was kidnapped, only to join her captors and rob banks with them. After her release from prison, she has led a life of dog shows and John Waters movies.
SF News Vintage 1956 Muni Bus Delighted Transit Nerds This Weekend at Duboce Park The good folks at Muni busted out a 1950s-era Muni Mack bus this weekend, and let transit lovers hop onboard and enjoy it in its fully restored glory, as part of a “120 years of SFMTA” exhibit happening over that the Harvey Milk Photo Center.
SF News Throwback Thursday: A Sitting U.S. President Died in San Francisco, 100 Years Ago This Week Warren G. Harding, roundly considered one of the worst U.S. Presidents of all time, kicked the bucket exactly 100 years ago this week at SF’s Palace Hotel, which is still the Palace Hotel at Market and New Montgomery streets.
Bay Area Sports March Madness Cult Hero ‘Sister Jean’ Was Born And Raised Right Here in San Francisco The annual NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is underway, and it turns out that the 103-year-old nun who’s become the tournament’s unofficial Cinderella-team mascot, Sister Jean Schmidt, grew up here in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Do You Live On A Former San Francisco Cemetery? An Interactive Map It is said that there are no cemeteries in San Francisco, but that is not true. In fact, ours was once a town full of cemeteries, before graveyards within city limits were banned
Arts & Entertainment Trove Of Historical SF Photos Now Available For Your Browsing Pleasure San Francisco history buffs delighted at the news last year that a local nonprofit had been entrusted with the digitization of a vast trove of historical photos of the city, and that the
Arts & Entertainment 5 Interesting Facts About The 'Zebra Killings' From The 1970s True Crime is the world’s most interesting subject. If that weren’t the case, Law & Order would have gone off the air in 1992. The Bay Area is home to a
Arts & Entertainment Before The Quake: Look At San Francisco Now And Then There's one event that acts as a demarcation line in San Francisco's history: The Great 1906 Earthquake. Which is why it's fun to dive back 150 years
Arts & Entertainment See S.F. in All Its Glory, Via Car, Circa 1955 Behold, this newly rediscovered bit of film, a Cinemascope look at San Francisco in 1955 by filmmaker and inventor Tullio Pellegrini. It's part of the Prelinger Archives, and it contains some
SF News Why San Francisco Was Never Much of a Mafia Town, or Was It? You heard about that big mob bust late last week on the East Coast? Well, NBC went to local crime author and retired policeman Kevin J. Mullen to find out why we haven&
misc Today in San Francisco History - Ghosts of Lands End Timecapsule: February 19, 1921 On this date the cornerstone for San Francisco's spectacular Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum was levered into place. The Museum was to be a vehicle
misc Today in San Francisco History - The laceration of Rincon Hill Timecapsule: February 1869 There aren't too many people living who remember this now, but Rincon Hill was once the fanciest neighborhood in San Francisco. You know the place, right? It'
misc Today in San Francisco History - Tong boss "Little Pete" assassinated in a Chinatown barbershop Timecapsule: January 23, 1897 The "tong" secret societies are as American as Chop Suey -- which is to say, invented in San Francisco and completely unknown in China. The first tong was
misc Today in San Francisco History - Passing of the notorious Countess Lola Montez Timecapsule: January 17, 1861 As was undoubtedly marked on your calendar, San Francisco's patron saint Emperor Norton died last week, January 7, 1880. But his was not the only January passing
misc Today in San Francisco History - Escape from Alcatraz, maybe Timecapsule: December 16, 1937 Braving armed guards, bone-chilling water, and a mythical one-finned shark named Bruce, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe take advantage of the heaviest fog on record to escape
misc Today in San Francisco History - "Haberdashery Issue Stirs Butchertown" Timecapsule: November 24, 1899 This item flowed from the pen of some long-forgotten San Francisco Chronicle beat writer, a little piece in which a neighborhood dispute is lovingly detailed. Butchertown was a
