Monkey Block San Francisco's Golden History
Retelling forgotten stories from San Francisco's golden past, 1776 - 1906, based on newspapers, books, and personal accounts, of the time. San Francisco enthusiasts, California gold rush fans, and garden variety history geeks can discover this boom and bust city, built on the discovery of gold. Ho boys ho! For Californio! *I do my best to accurately reflect the facts, and sources, in my episodes.*
Podcasting since 2021 • 37 episodes
Monkey Block San Francisco's Golden History
Latest Episodes
S4 Ep8 Marnie's Story of Henry Fortmann
This episode is a memorial to a Civil War Veteran and locally famous (in his time), San Francisco/Bay Area resident, Henry Fortmann. This story is special to me because it honors my listener's great-great-great grandfather, Henry Fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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41:41
S4 Ep7 Part 2 Interview with author Terry Hamburg "Land of the Dead, How the West Changed Death in America"
This is Part 2 of my interview with author Terry Hamburg, author of "Land of the Dead, How the West Changed Death in America". In this episode Terry tells us how the four main cemeteries dealt with evicting the dead by the 1940s. I ...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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41:03
S4 Ep6 Part 1 Interview with author Terry Hamburg "Land of the Dead, How the West Changed Death in America"
This episode is an interview with author Terry Hamburg, who wrote a very interesting book on all things dying, death, and burial in San Francisco history. We cover the earliest history of Colma and specifically discuss one cemetery, Cypress Law...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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39:12
S4 Ep5 Was Montgomery's Landing "near this spot"?
The history I’ve read regarding July 9th, 1846, states that the USS Portsmouth pulled up to the shoreline at Montgomery and Clay Street, marines disembarked from the ship and onto land, then marched up Clay Street to raise the American flag in ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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36:01
S4 Ep4 Drinking in Yerba Buena 1847 - Seven Rules and Regulations at Public Houses
Have you ever felt like some stories should feel more connected than they do in your brain but instead they feel like untethered facts that are somehow connected? This episode is about just that. I want to understand how my...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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39:00