Your Grandmother's Attic on Loko: The SF Antique Mall
Have a spare $95 and a burning desire to freak out all future house guests? This disturbed chicken carcass could be yours!A few weeks ago, I was hipped to the fact that there's an antique and design...
View ArticleOld Dude Reminisces About Mission Life in the 1940's
Don't get me wrong, this video isn't well edited and the guy is talking about one word a minute. But if you are into San Francisco history like I am, this man's tale of growing up the Mission of the...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Aerial View, 1938
One of my map-obsessed friends recently pointed me in the direction of David Rumsey's collection of aerial photography of San Francisco taken in 1938. As Rumsey's blog points out, most of the...
View ArticleThe History of SF Bars Through Vintage Matchbooks
We're big fans of aging bar memorabilia here at Uptown Almanac. And while we've explored many digitalwaysto look back, there are still a few resources that have slipped past us. One of those is this...
View ArticleBender's Latest Bar Opening "Any Day Now"
Waiting for final inspections to go through, the folks from the Mission's lowlife clubhouse are just days away from opening Emperor Norton's Boozeland, their Tenderloin “rock ‘n’ roll lounge” within...
View ArticleBender's Latest Bar Opening "Any Day Now"
Waiting for final inspections to go through, the folks from the Mission's lowlife clubhouse are just days away from opening Emperor Norton's Boozeland, their Tenderloin “rock ‘n’ roll lounge” within...
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