Ambush on Memory Lane! … family time with Mike Krukow
Ambush on Memory Lane! is our ongoing series where we find the earliest Chronicle photos of Bay Area newsmakers, and post them with hindsight-aided analysis. This week’s subject: San Francisco Giants...
View ArticleHaight Street in 1967, as seen from a tour bus full of squares
I was researching for a tourism-focused Our San Francisco that’s coming out in a few weeks, and stumbled across one of the better photo finds in the seven-plus years I’ve been digging through the...
View ArticlePeriscope in the Chronicle archives – Mondays at 12:30 p.m.
Starting this afternoon at 12:30 p.m., I’ll be using Periscope to give tours of The San Francisco Chronicle’s basement archive. Follow me on Twitter @PeterHartlaub and I’ll send out a link a few...
View ArticleIs this the first man busted for marijuana in Bay Area history?
The first time I smelled marijuana was in Candlestick Park for a Giants game. It was the early 1980s, a big dude behind me lit up a fat joint, and I remember feeling a little bit panicked. But the...
View ArticleWhy the “Golden State” Warriors? Well that’s a crazy story …
By the time I was old enough to say “Al Attles” – my parents thought I was babbling, but I’m claiming those were my first words – the team was called the Golden State Warriors. The logo already had...
View ArticleThe Chronicle panned it: “Caddyshack”
I could 100 percent see someone in 2015 saying that they don’t like “Caddyshack.” The most likely scenario is from a slightly intoxicated twentysomething engaging in Millennial-on-Generation X...
View ArticleIntroducing … your 1934 Mission Reds baseball team
Over the decade and a half I’ve worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, nothing in the city has been strip-mined of its coolness like the Mission District. If there’s something unique, interesting or...
View ArticleBehold, the first cellular phones in Bay Area history
It’s hard to pinpoint the moment when I hit peak a**hole. I take that back. It’s actually pretty easy. Let’s go with the moment that I purchased my first cell phone. I only got 30 free minutes per...
View ArticleHelp us find this young Warriors superfan from 1975
For the past several weeks, I’ve been holding back San Francisco Chronicle photos from the Golden State Warriors 1975 NBA title public celebrations. The team hosted huge post-victory rallies at Oakland...
View ArticleGuess what a Warriors NBA Finals ticket cost in 1975 …
For maybe three years in the 1980s, a prodigious filmgoing time in my teens, I saved every movie ticket and concert stub in a little jar. I stab myself with random household objects routinely for not...
View ArticleSee how the Warriors celebrated their championship in 1975
UPDATED 6/17: I got a nice response on social media, so I updated with a few more photos. -PH This post has been sitting in “draft” mode for weeks, waiting for a time when I could talk about the...
View ArticleThis inventor’s genius 1937 SF subway plan beat BART by 35 years
Cleve F. Shaffer. A name you should remember, and we never should have forgotten in the first place. While searching through the San Francisco Chronicle archives, I frequently run across plans for...
View Article“Organic food” and the Chronicle: A constipated history
When I was growing up in the Bay Area in the late 1970s and 1980s, organic food was already a part of our lives. There was no organic section in the regular supermarkets, and I don’t remember using a...
View ArticleWe found the very first Muni accident in SF history …
A runaway streetcar careening down three city blocks. A wagon full of bread that is obliterated into splinters and croutons. Terrified passengers, and a new driver in total control despite his massive...
View ArticleAmbush on Memory Lane: Michael Tilson Thomas, the early years
Ambush on Memory Lane! is our ongoing series where we find the earliest Chronicle photographs of Bay Area newsmakers, and post them with hindsight-aided analysis. This week’s subject: San Francisco...
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