October 12, 1962 “COMMISSIONER FORD FRICK surveyed Candlestick Park from the stands, as well as on the field, and then postponed Friday’s sixth game of the WorldSeries. After inspecting the outfield, heavy with water, the commissioner said he doubted that the Giants and Yankees would even be able to play Saturday although he added he will not cross that bridge (and he may need one) until Saturday morning.”
—SFPL History Center
Schrumpf. Schrumpf? Schrumpf, Schrumpf, Schrumpf.
A horrifying outtake from the press preview for The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: San Francisco & the Movies. Read about it over on SFist. Just be thankful that the wax Clint didn’t make it in.
There will be geekery
Oh yes there will.
Every city gets the Miracle Mile it deserves.
Krampus treats.
Decking the Bay Bridge, 1938.
25 December 1930: Governor-Elect James Rolph & Mayor Angelo Rossi.
For those who do not know him, “Sunny Jim” was the longest serving mayor of San Francisco (apologies to the honorable Willie Brown, unofficially longest serving mayor of our hearts).
Fire hazards of 1946.
“A proposal by North Beach merchants that Coit Tower be converted into a gian Christmas candle during the coming holiday season will be considered by the Park-Recreation Commission at its weekly meeting tomorrow. It is suggested that a wide colored streamer be wound up the tower and a light, representing a flame, be fixed at the top.”
—SFPL SF History Center
“The Palace was an emporium dedicated to the palates of the cosmos. It probably had food from Saturn. It was the FAO Schwarz of the stomach.”
—Gus Lee, China Boy
For Christmas I would like the Crystal Palace to return to 8th and Market. You don’t know the Crystal Palace? Click through, dear reader, click through!
Let us remember with fondness the house that Q*bert built, for it is no more.
1953 :: PETA tree
I. Magnin proves that fauna are a flora with its mink tail tree.
—SF History Center, SFPL
No kitties here: Macy’s million dollar Christmas tree, 1953.
In the same year, Congresswomen sought to overturn a luxury tax on handbags.
7th & Mission :: career opportunities
“Part of the crowd of 6000 persons who swarmed to the Post Office Building this morning for Christmas jobs. Postmaster, John Fixa, described the rush as ‘unprecedented.’”
—SF History Center, SFPL