Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
In the fall of 2008, WNP founders Woody LaBounty and David Gallagher asked if I would be interested in writing a series of articles on local history/folklore and thus, Streetwise was born, making its debut as a monthly column in January of 2009. I’m grateful to have been given this opportunity, and also happy that Woody agreed to loan me the column’s name one that he had been using for many of his own WNP articles dating back to the late 1990s.
Now, after 8+ years, the calendar tells me that Streetwise is reaching its 100th column a good time to take a look back to see where we have been.
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03/07/21
Re: Antique In-wall ironing board03/03/21 -
posted by Jo Anne Quinn
Our 1930s home (Parkside District) had the built-in ironing board (in the kitchen), and the laundry chute (in my parent s bedroom closet). I still remember them fondly..very efficient!
And yes.that niche for the telephone, with a little shelf below it to house the telephone directory!!
A friend, who lived just around the corner had a similar niche, plus a little fold-down bench to sit on while you chatted away.
Remembering the 1957 Earthquake 1957 earthquake damage along Lake Merced Boulevard, March 22, 1957 -
A little quake at 10:26 a.m., another one 21 minutes later, a third a minute after that, a little shock at 10:52, one at 11:04, another at 11:19, then quiet. Then just 26 minutes later, the Big One: A distant, awesome rumble that tightened throats with fear, The Chronicle said. The sound was followed in an instant by a twisting, jarring, side-rolling motion.
The clock on San Francisco s Ferry Building stopped for the first time since the disaster of April 18, 1906. It was 11:45 a.m. on Friday, March 22, 1957.
In an instant, merchandise littered the floor at the Emporium department store at the Stonestown shopping center and displays at grocery and liquor stores crashed to the floor. Nearly all the windows shattered at the brand-new library at San Francisco State College, out by Lake Merced.