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The people who spread lies about San Francisco being \u003cem>The Purge\u003c/em> now! That one guy who hoses down homeless people! Folks who move in next door to music venues, then make noise complaints! Erratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959303/sf-activists-protest-immobilize-driverless-cars-with-traffic-cones\">ghost cars\u003c/a>! You get the gist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Halloween season at the moment, though, so it’s the perfect time to think beyond the usual suspects and venture into our region’s very real history of dealing with \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> monsters. The mysterious kind. The kind that people laugh at witnesses for reporting in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five major ones you might not have realized were ever in our midst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104.jpg\" alt=\"A mysterious bigfoot figure, walking through a foggy forest and silhouetted against trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bigfoot, doing his thing. \u003ccite>(David Wall/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Bigfoot in Antioch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1869, an unsuspecting hunter wandered back to his campsite in Antioch one evening to find his belongings in disarray. As he tried to make sense of the scene, he noticed something else — enormous footprints that closely resembled the shape of a man’s foot, rather than an animal’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunter was so confounded that, rather than clean up the mess, he opted to hide out in some bushes 20 yards away and stake out whatever had paid the camp an earlier visit. After two hours, the mysterious beast did indeed come back and the hunter was able to observe a bonafide Bigfoot for about 20 minutes. The hunter later reported that the creature was:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“5 feet high and disproportionately broad and square at the shoulders with arms of great length. The legs were very short and the body long. The head was small compared to the rest of the creature and appeared to be set upon his shoulders without a neck. The whole was covered with dark brown and cinnamon-colored hair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So… a tall Ewok then? (Sign me up!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904911']The hunter hung around long enough to see Overgrown Wicket meet up with another Bigfoot that was “unmistakenly female.” (That means boobs, probably?) To his surprise, after telling other hunters in the area what he had witnessed, the Bigfoot-spotter found that almost no one was surprised. Most other folks reported seeing the signature giant footprints and at least one other man had seen the furry fam as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rupert Matthews, author of \u003cem>Bigfoot: True-Life Encounters With Legendary Ape-Men\u003c/em> notes that: “This acceptance of the reality of the creatures by those who spent a lot time in the forested hills is a feature of early cases [of Bigfoot sightings] that surfaces again and again. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253.jpg\" alt=\"A gorgeous blue lake surrounded by green pine trees. A small green island sits in the center of the water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1253\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe: May or may not be home to a giant serpent monster. \u003ccite>(Anjelika Gretskaia/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Tahoe Tessie\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a bad joke set-up: Two nuns, a couple of cops, one optometrist and 10 USPS workers walk into the countryside… yadda-yadda-yadda… punchline about a sea serpent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except, that is the actual list of people who reported seeing some kind of aquatic monster in the waters of Lake Tahoe in the mid-1980s. One of the cops, Reno’s Kris Beebe, said the creature — nicknamed “Tahoe Tessie” for funsies — was “dark gray or black” and “a minimum of 10 feet long.” The other witnesses described a featureless body that was “fast-moving and undulating, but strangely devoid of identifying attributes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that nothing of that size had ever been proven to live in the 1,590-foot-deep lake, fishing guide Mickey Daniels told the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner:\u003c/em> “I think there’s something there. I’ve talked to about a hundred people who’ve seen it. What do I do — call them liars?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Female, red vampire lips with dripping blood, viewed in close-up.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-1020x594.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-1536x894.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-2048x1193.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-1920x1118.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1978, a Daly City resident named Kooki Davis claimed publicly to be a full-fledged vampire. \u003ccite>(Remains/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Vampires in Daly City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1978, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> dedicated a story to Kooki Davis, a Daly City-dwelling hair stylist from Trinidad, who was living full-time as a vampire. “She has long fangs, razor-sharp fingernails and blood dripping from her lips,” the paper reported, like that was perfectly normal. “She speaks with a Transylvania twang and her ‘come hither’ stare sends icy fingers up and down your spine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904118']In the story, Davis explained that she’d become a “certified” vampire five years ago. And if you’re wondering what \u003cem>that\u003c/em> exam involves, she elaborated: “To become a vampire, you have to be bitten by a vampire. Once bitten, you become a victim. Victims have to serve an apprenticeship to learn the ropes … There’s a lot of activity in San Francisco, so you can earn your merit badges pretty fast — as opposed to Dubuque or Wichita.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(This is the value of newspapers, friends. Movies never tell anyone that in order to rid oneself of a vampire problem, moving to Iowa or Kansas will solve it, but here we are.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of her interactions with the general public, Davis noted that at work, at the end of each haircut, her “trademark” was to give each of her customers a “gentle bite” on the neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Man, that salon must have had amazing insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911.jpg\" alt=\"A man looks up at a flying mothman figure in the sky that's silhouetted against the moon at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Someone spotted this guy on top of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge. Not cool, Mothman. Not cool. \u003ccite>(David Wall/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Sacramento Mothman\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As all good cryptid nerds know, Mothman primarily enjoys hanging out in West Virginia. (Probably because 80% of the state is forested, and also because approximately 80% of people who don’t live in West Virginia assume that everyone who does is crazy.) For decades there, witnesses have been describing a 7-foot-tall man with red eyes and wings, with a wingspan between 10 and 15 feet wide, who can fly at speeds too fast to catch on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Mothman must have had himself a little Californian vacation in 2009, because a photographer named Lamont Greer claims to have seen the humanoid hanging around on top of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge one night. Greer had been taking photos of the bridge at the time and was stunned by what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13933318']“I had just finished filming the back side of the bridge so I was bent down putting my camera back in my camera bag,” Greer told The History Channel’s \u003cem>MonsterQuest\u003c/em>, “and I kind of felt something looking at me. When I first saw it, I didn’t know what it was … but then my eyes kind of focused on it a bit better. It spread wings and then started flying off. It wasn’t a man, it wasn’t a bird. It was absolutely strange and unique. If it wanted to come down and hurt someone — attack — it absolutely could cause damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento sighting is not the only time Mothman has showed up in a city. In 2017, a bunch of people reported seeing him hanging around Chicago — including at the airport. A moth’s gotta vacation, you guys. A moth’s gotta vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739.jpg\" alt=\"Two slender sea monsters with long tails and small fins make turns in the ocean as light streams through from the sky.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-768x553.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-1536x1106.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multiple fishermen in Santa Cruz and Monterey used to report a sea serpent lurking in the water. They nicknamed it ‘The Old Man of Monterey Bay’ and also, for some reason, ‘Bobo.’ \u003ccite>( Victor Habbick Visions/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Old Man of Monterey Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About a hundred years ago, the fishermen of Monterey Bay and the Santa Cruz waterfront started reporting seeing an alarming dragon-like creature circling their boats. Some witnesses said the strange beast had a very large head, extremely long tail and a series of pointed spines along its back. A Monterey man named Dominic Costanza said the creature was about four feet in width and had “what looked like the face of a very old man or a monkey … with two eyes the size of breakfast buns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Never mind the creature — what the hell is a breakfast bun?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By March 1940, the creature had two nicknames — “The Old Man of Monterey Bay” or “Bobo,” depending on your preference — and it had prompted around 30 fishing captains to make reports to the \u003cem>Santa Cruz Sentinel\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Geoffrey Dunn — a man whose family had been in Santa Cruz for generations — wrote in \u003cem>Santa Cruz Style\u003c/em> that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Several of my uncles and cousins reportedly encountered the monster while fishing in their small, double-ended fishing vessels … My late uncle Mario Stagnaro once recounted for me the afternoon that a badly shaken fisherman, Bill Totten, returned to the docks following a day of fishing in June of 1941. ‘I saw that serpent or monster out there!’ he screamed. ‘Get me out of here!’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Totten apparently did not return to the wharf for some time. Play nice, Bobo!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be careful out there, folks — and have a happy Halloween.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sacramento Mothman! Antioch Bigfoot! At least one vampire in Daly City! You don't need movies to find monsters around here...","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705003253,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1553},"headData":{"title":"Sacramento Mothman (and a Host of Other Californian Monsters) | KQED","description":"Sacramento Mothman! Antioch Bigfoot! At least one vampire in Daly City! You don't need movies to find monsters around here...","ogTitle":"5 Real-Life Monsters That Have (Apparently) Stalked Northern California","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"5 Real-Life Monsters That Have (Apparently) Stalked Northern California","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Sacramento Mothman (and a Host of Other Californian Monsters) %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/0ea742c7-c75c-4b17-b05b-b0c0016cf6e9/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13935838/sacramento-mothman-tahoe-tessie-antioch-bigfoot-kooki-davis-vampire-halloween","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ask Northern Californians what local monsters they think about the most, and invariably you will hear a list of very bad people. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/17396/are-you-a-gentrifier-this-quiz-can-tell-you\">Gentrifiers\u003c/a>! The people who spread lies about San Francisco being \u003cem>The Purge\u003c/em> now! That one guy who hoses down homeless people! Folks who move in next door to music venues, then make noise complaints! Erratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959303/sf-activists-protest-immobilize-driverless-cars-with-traffic-cones\">ghost cars\u003c/a>! You get the gist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Halloween season at the moment, though, so it’s the perfect time to think beyond the usual suspects and venture into our region’s very real history of dealing with \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> monsters. The mysterious kind. The kind that people laugh at witnesses for reporting in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five major ones you might not have realized were ever in our midst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104.jpg\" alt=\"A mysterious bigfoot figure, walking through a foggy forest and silhouetted against trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bigfoot, doing his thing. \u003ccite>(David Wall/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Bigfoot in Antioch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1869, an unsuspecting hunter wandered back to his campsite in Antioch one evening to find his belongings in disarray. As he tried to make sense of the scene, he noticed something else — enormous footprints that closely resembled the shape of a man’s foot, rather than an animal’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunter was so confounded that, rather than clean up the mess, he opted to hide out in some bushes 20 yards away and stake out whatever had paid the camp an earlier visit. After two hours, the mysterious beast did indeed come back and the hunter was able to observe a bonafide Bigfoot for about 20 minutes. The hunter later reported that the creature was:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“5 feet high and disproportionately broad and square at the shoulders with arms of great length. The legs were very short and the body long. The head was small compared to the rest of the creature and appeared to be set upon his shoulders without a neck. The whole was covered with dark brown and cinnamon-colored hair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So… a tall Ewok then? (Sign me up!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13904911","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The hunter hung around long enough to see Overgrown Wicket meet up with another Bigfoot that was “unmistakenly female.” (That means boobs, probably?) To his surprise, after telling other hunters in the area what he had witnessed, the Bigfoot-spotter found that almost no one was surprised. Most other folks reported seeing the signature giant footprints and at least one other man had seen the furry fam as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rupert Matthews, author of \u003cem>Bigfoot: True-Life Encounters With Legendary Ape-Men\u003c/em> notes that: “This acceptance of the reality of the creatures by those who spent a lot time in the forested hills is a feature of early cases [of Bigfoot sightings] that surfaces again and again. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253.jpg\" alt=\"A gorgeous blue lake surrounded by green pine trees. A small green island sits in the center of the water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1253\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe: May or may not be home to a giant serpent monster. \u003ccite>(Anjelika Gretskaia/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Tahoe Tessie\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a bad joke set-up: Two nuns, a couple of cops, one optometrist and 10 USPS workers walk into the countryside… yadda-yadda-yadda… punchline about a sea serpent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except, that is the actual list of people who reported seeing some kind of aquatic monster in the waters of Lake Tahoe in the mid-1980s. One of the cops, Reno’s Kris Beebe, said the creature — nicknamed “Tahoe Tessie” for funsies — was “dark gray or black” and “a minimum of 10 feet long.” The other witnesses described a featureless body that was “fast-moving and undulating, but strangely devoid of identifying attributes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that nothing of that size had ever been proven to live in the 1,590-foot-deep lake, fishing guide Mickey Daniels told the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner:\u003c/em> “I think there’s something there. I’ve talked to about a hundred people who’ve seen it. What do I do — call them liars?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Female, red vampire lips with dripping blood, viewed in close-up.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-1020x594.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-1536x894.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-2048x1193.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-1920x1118.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1978, a Daly City resident named Kooki Davis claimed publicly to be a full-fledged vampire. \u003ccite>(Remains/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Vampires in Daly City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1978, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> dedicated a story to Kooki Davis, a Daly City-dwelling hair stylist from Trinidad, who was living full-time as a vampire. “She has long fangs, razor-sharp fingernails and blood dripping from her lips,” the paper reported, like that was perfectly normal. “She speaks with a Transylvania twang and her ‘come hither’ stare sends icy fingers up and down your spine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13904118","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the story, Davis explained that she’d become a “certified” vampire five years ago. And if you’re wondering what \u003cem>that\u003c/em> exam involves, she elaborated: “To become a vampire, you have to be bitten by a vampire. Once bitten, you become a victim. Victims have to serve an apprenticeship to learn the ropes … There’s a lot of activity in San Francisco, so you can earn your merit badges pretty fast — as opposed to Dubuque or Wichita.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(This is the value of newspapers, friends. Movies never tell anyone that in order to rid oneself of a vampire problem, moving to Iowa or Kansas will solve it, but here we are.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of her interactions with the general public, Davis noted that at work, at the end of each haircut, her “trademark” was to give each of her customers a “gentle bite” on the neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Man, that salon must have had amazing insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911.jpg\" alt=\"A man looks up at a flying mothman figure in the sky that's silhouetted against the moon at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Someone spotted this guy on top of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge. Not cool, Mothman. Not cool. \u003ccite>(David Wall/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Sacramento Mothman\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As all good cryptid nerds know, Mothman primarily enjoys hanging out in West Virginia. (Probably because 80% of the state is forested, and also because approximately 80% of people who don’t live in West Virginia assume that everyone who does is crazy.) For decades there, witnesses have been describing a 7-foot-tall man with red eyes and wings, with a wingspan between 10 and 15 feet wide, who can fly at speeds too fast to catch on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Mothman must have had himself a little Californian vacation in 2009, because a photographer named Lamont Greer claims to have seen the humanoid hanging around on top of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge one night. Greer had been taking photos of the bridge at the time and was stunned by what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13933318","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I had just finished filming the back side of the bridge so I was bent down putting my camera back in my camera bag,” Greer told The History Channel’s \u003cem>MonsterQuest\u003c/em>, “and I kind of felt something looking at me. When I first saw it, I didn’t know what it was … but then my eyes kind of focused on it a bit better. It spread wings and then started flying off. It wasn’t a man, it wasn’t a bird. It was absolutely strange and unique. If it wanted to come down and hurt someone — attack — it absolutely could cause damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento sighting is not the only time Mothman has showed up in a city. In 2017, a bunch of people reported seeing him hanging around Chicago — including at the airport. A moth’s gotta vacation, you guys. A moth’s gotta vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739.jpg\" alt=\"Two slender sea monsters with long tails and small fins make turns in the ocean as light streams through from the sky.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-768x553.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-1536x1106.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multiple fishermen in Santa Cruz and Monterey used to report a sea serpent lurking in the water. They nicknamed it ‘The Old Man of Monterey Bay’ and also, for some reason, ‘Bobo.’ \u003ccite>( Victor Habbick Visions/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Old Man of Monterey Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About a hundred years ago, the fishermen of Monterey Bay and the Santa Cruz waterfront started reporting seeing an alarming dragon-like creature circling their boats. Some witnesses said the strange beast had a very large head, extremely long tail and a series of pointed spines along its back. A Monterey man named Dominic Costanza said the creature was about four feet in width and had “what looked like the face of a very old man or a monkey … with two eyes the size of breakfast buns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Never mind the creature — what the hell is a breakfast bun?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By March 1940, the creature had two nicknames — “The Old Man of Monterey Bay” or “Bobo,” depending on your preference — and it had prompted around 30 fishing captains to make reports to the \u003cem>Santa Cruz Sentinel\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Geoffrey Dunn — a man whose family had been in Santa Cruz for generations — wrote in \u003cem>Santa Cruz Style\u003c/em> that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Several of my uncles and cousins reportedly encountered the monster while fishing in their small, double-ended fishing vessels … My late uncle Mario Stagnaro once recounted for me the afternoon that a badly shaken fisherman, Bill Totten, returned to the docks following a day of fishing in June of 1941. ‘I saw that serpent or monster out there!’ he screamed. ‘Get me out of here!’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Totten apparently did not return to the wharf for some time. Play nice, Bobo!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be careful out there, folks — and have a happy Halloween.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13935838/sacramento-mothman-tahoe-tessie-antioch-bigfoot-kooki-davis-vampire-halloween","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_14353","arts_10278","arts_1206","arts_5087"],"featImg":"arts_13936011","label":"arts"},"arts_13934227":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13934227","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13934227","score":null,"sort":[1695661223000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"history-kids-weapons-dynamite-30s-40s-50s-tweens-with-bombs","title":"What Was Your Great-Grandpa's Favorite Toy? Dynamite, Probably","publishDate":1695661223,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What Was Your Great-Grandpa’s Favorite Toy? Dynamite, Probably | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Today, TikTok is filled to the brim with videos about the unmonitored childhoods that Gen Xers casually endured in the 1980s. Back then, kids were out, roaming the streets, setting off fireworks, cracking their heads on concrete playgrounds, swimming in factory waste and smoking a pack of Camels a day before they’d even turned 12. No small humans were tougher. Or, at least, that’s the popular narrative on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet: Step aside, feral mall children of the 1980s, for local news archives tell us that there once existed generations of kids who make Gen X look like absolute wusses. These tiny maniacs grew up in the first half of the 20th century and, let me tell you, they were armed, dangerous and would not — though their lives literally depended on it — stop playing with deadly knickknacks. These kids had actual, bonafide TNT, nitroglycerine and — sure, why not? — teeny tiny weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did they get injured? Of course! Did anyone learn a lesson? Nope!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please now allow me to regale you with tales of the toughest Bay Area offspring from last century and, of course, their weapons of choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dynamite kids\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931210']Which is worse? Deciding at the age of 12 to “blow up the Berkeley school” with your friends using 12 sticks of stolen dynamite? (This was in 1936 and, thankfully, the Danville boy responsible got busted before his crew could light any fuses.) \u003cem>Or\u003c/em>, heading to school in 1940, aged 13, and “roaming a crowded [Oakland] school playground during recess” waving a stick of dynamite around? It’s hard to say which child was more likely to murder someone, but the fact that Northern California kids like these two just happened to keep stumbling across this very specific type of explosive is even more of a head-scratcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chico in 1915, an 11-year-old named George Simpson saved the life of a 10-year-old girl who was about to bash two dynamite sticks on a rock to “play Fourth of July.” In 1922, a 6-year-old and a 3-year from Hayward did themselves serious damage after finding dynamite in one of their dad’s barns and lighting it up. Try not to think too hard on the fact that these kids, according to newspaper reports, were too young to read the “Danger!” warning on the box, but somehow old enough to proficiently light matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As late as 1959, kids were still in full Wile E. Coyote mode and trying to blow crap up. One dynamite explosion set off by teens in Walnut Creek that year broke a square-mile’s worth of windows, started a two-acre grass fire, blew a three-foot-deep hole in the ground and scared the crap out of people as far as 20 miles away. The dynamite had been stolen from a nearby storehouse. Rebels without a cause, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13934556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13934556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-800x637.jpg\" alt=\"A toddler wearing a onesie covered in safety pins stands outside next to a sign that reads Safety First. A woman stands behind the child.\" width=\"800\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-800x637.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-1020x812.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-768x612.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-1536x1223.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rare sight of a child in 1935 not actively trying to blow themselves up. \u003ccite>(Daily Mirror/ Mirrorpix via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The ‘toy’ cannon lovers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unless there’s a game in which actively attempting to hurt one’s playmates and pets is a thing, it’s really hard to figure out how exactly one “plays” with a toy cannon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2013 book \u003cem>Britain’s Secret Treasures \u003c/em>has some clues as to the operations of such items, stating that, back in the day, “Many households would have had musket powder that could be used to fire a toy cannon … Buckshot could have been used for cannonballs, or any household item that could be fashioned into a hard, round projectile … It is doubtful that these little cannon were sold with instructions, so a trial and error approach was required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909983']And those errors, friends, could result in some very not good things. In 1903, a 14-year-old Berkeley boy named Will Bass managed to shoot his left index finger off with a toy cannon. (He was in the middle of trying to repair it at the time.) A single edition of the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> newspaper later that year listed two separate incidents of boys getting severe face burns “while trying to find out why a brass cannon did not explode.” (One was an 11-year-old Tenderloin boy. The other was 8 and playing in Golden Gate Park at the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in that issue of \u003cem>The Call\u003c/em>? A 17-year-old Civic Center resident who had injured “the palm of his left hand terribly” after his cannon went off prematurely. (The exact same thing happened to a 14-year-old San Franciscan the following year.) All of which makes even \u003ca href=\"https://www.vintagegaragechicago.com/jarts/\">Jarts — an unhinged “missile game”\u003c/a> from the 1960s and ’70s — look positively tame.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This one kid who made nitroglycerine\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m not going to be able to say this any better than Herb Caen did in a 1951 column for the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner, \u003c/em>so let’s just use his words:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bob Zwieg, 15-year-old … made up his mind months ago that he was going to produce the biggest Fourth of July explosion in San Anselmo, where his family has a summer place. ‘Yup, I’m gonna make me some nitroglycerine’ he kept saying, and his mother humored him. ‘You go right ahead, sonny,’ she soothed as he pored over chemistry books and fiddled with laboratory doo-dads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday morning he announced, ‘I’m ready to make the big noise.’ He put the gloop in a pot, began stirring it and — wham! The roar was still fading away while young Bob was being rushed to Ross Hospital with burns, singed eyebrows and slight shock. Anyway, it was the biggest noise in San Anselmo on July Fourth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This is what happens when we underestimate the determination of our young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13934557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13934557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Two small boys boxing inside a ring surrounded by middle aged men wearing overcoats and suits.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-768x507.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-1536x1014.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a certain point, it’s fairly impossible to not just blame the adults in the room… \u003ccite>(B Alfieri/ Mirrorpix via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The ‘toy’ gun tinkerers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1903, one Clarence Ito of Grayson St. in West Berkeley found himself with a toy gun that was refusing to fire. He, naturally, responded to this by staring down the barrel of the weapon and pulling the trigger. According to an issue of \u003cem>The Call\u003c/em> at the time, Clarence was left with “a big hole in his cheek, just a little below the eye, and it required the services of a physician and a large amount of thread to sew it together again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-five years later, toy guns and the kids that owned them were still doing each other dirty. A 1938 edition of \u003cem>The Examiner\u003c/em> reported that a 14-year-old Hayward boy had a .22 caliber bullet lodged in his jaw after he and two friends decided to shove the ammo into an air gun and see what would happen. The injured kid’s condition was described as “not serious,” but would \u003cem>you\u003c/em> want a bullet lodged in your jaw? I’m gonna go with nope.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The blasting cap hoarders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those of you without a working knowledge of the history of demolition, blasting (or dynamite) caps were basically detonators designed to set off small explosions in order to ignite bigger ones. And apparently, in the ’30s and ’40s, they were just lying around willy-nilly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1948, Tony Martin found a box of blasting caps on San Mateo’s Rockaway Beach. He would later tell staff of the Mission Emergency Hospital that he “knew they were dangerous after [he] read about them in the newspaper,” but decided to throw a rock at one anyway. He was treated for burns and shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13927540']Twelve-year-old Billy Douglas got off a little easier in 1937 after San Francisco cops raided his home to confiscate Billy’s large collection of dynamite caps. They removed the detonators without anyone getting hurt, and Billy was transparent about the fact that he had been planning a large explosion on his street (Geary, incidentally) for Fourth of July celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse than Billy were the six high school friends who got shaken down by cops in 1947 after it was discovered that they had managed to collect a bunch of dynamite, a box of blasting caps and 10 pounds of blasting powder. The kids — students from Balboa High School and Horace Mann Junior High — had been stashing the explosives in their parents’ basements. No word on what exactly this band of hooligans were planning to do with it all, but the students all got off with warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take that, Gen X!\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"TikTok says Gen X was the most feral generation. The kids who played with cannons and explosives would like a word.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705003330,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1505},"headData":{"title":"What Was Your Great-Grandpa's Favorite Toy? Dynamite, Probably | KQED","description":"TikTok says Gen X was the most feral generation. The kids who played with cannons and explosives would like a word.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https:// https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/b3de8cd9-5dc3-4760-89d5-b08100ff0a32/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13934227/history-kids-weapons-dynamite-30s-40s-50s-tweens-with-bombs","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Today, TikTok is filled to the brim with videos about the unmonitored childhoods that Gen Xers casually endured in the 1980s. Back then, kids were out, roaming the streets, setting off fireworks, cracking their heads on concrete playgrounds, swimming in factory waste and smoking a pack of Camels a day before they’d even turned 12. No small humans were tougher. Or, at least, that’s the popular narrative on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet: Step aside, feral mall children of the 1980s, for local news archives tell us that there once existed generations of kids who make Gen X look like absolute wusses. These tiny maniacs grew up in the first half of the 20th century and, let me tell you, they were armed, dangerous and would not — though their lives literally depended on it — stop playing with deadly knickknacks. These kids had actual, bonafide TNT, nitroglycerine and — sure, why not? — teeny tiny weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did they get injured? Of course! Did anyone learn a lesson? Nope!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please now allow me to regale you with tales of the toughest Bay Area offspring from last century and, of course, their weapons of choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dynamite kids\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13931210","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Which is worse? Deciding at the age of 12 to “blow up the Berkeley school” with your friends using 12 sticks of stolen dynamite? (This was in 1936 and, thankfully, the Danville boy responsible got busted before his crew could light any fuses.) \u003cem>Or\u003c/em>, heading to school in 1940, aged 13, and “roaming a crowded [Oakland] school playground during recess” waving a stick of dynamite around? It’s hard to say which child was more likely to murder someone, but the fact that Northern California kids like these two just happened to keep stumbling across this very specific type of explosive is even more of a head-scratcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chico in 1915, an 11-year-old named George Simpson saved the life of a 10-year-old girl who was about to bash two dynamite sticks on a rock to “play Fourth of July.” In 1922, a 6-year-old and a 3-year from Hayward did themselves serious damage after finding dynamite in one of their dad’s barns and lighting it up. Try not to think too hard on the fact that these kids, according to newspaper reports, were too young to read the “Danger!” warning on the box, but somehow old enough to proficiently light matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As late as 1959, kids were still in full Wile E. Coyote mode and trying to blow crap up. One dynamite explosion set off by teens in Walnut Creek that year broke a square-mile’s worth of windows, started a two-acre grass fire, blew a three-foot-deep hole in the ground and scared the crap out of people as far as 20 miles away. The dynamite had been stolen from a nearby storehouse. Rebels without a cause, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13934556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13934556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-800x637.jpg\" alt=\"A toddler wearing a onesie covered in safety pins stands outside next to a sign that reads Safety First. A woman stands behind the child.\" width=\"800\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-800x637.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-1020x812.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-768x612.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580-1536x1223.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837772-scaled-e1694206484580.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rare sight of a child in 1935 not actively trying to blow themselves up. \u003ccite>(Daily Mirror/ Mirrorpix via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The ‘toy’ cannon lovers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unless there’s a game in which actively attempting to hurt one’s playmates and pets is a thing, it’s really hard to figure out how exactly one “plays” with a toy cannon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2013 book \u003cem>Britain’s Secret Treasures \u003c/em>has some clues as to the operations of such items, stating that, back in the day, “Many households would have had musket powder that could be used to fire a toy cannon … Buckshot could have been used for cannonballs, or any household item that could be fashioned into a hard, round projectile … It is doubtful that these little cannon were sold with instructions, so a trial and error approach was required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13909983","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And those errors, friends, could result in some very not good things. In 1903, a 14-year-old Berkeley boy named Will Bass managed to shoot his left index finger off with a toy cannon. (He was in the middle of trying to repair it at the time.) A single edition of the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> newspaper later that year listed two separate incidents of boys getting severe face burns “while trying to find out why a brass cannon did not explode.” (One was an 11-year-old Tenderloin boy. The other was 8 and playing in Golden Gate Park at the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in that issue of \u003cem>The Call\u003c/em>? A 17-year-old Civic Center resident who had injured “the palm of his left hand terribly” after his cannon went off prematurely. (The exact same thing happened to a 14-year-old San Franciscan the following year.) All of which makes even \u003ca href=\"https://www.vintagegaragechicago.com/jarts/\">Jarts — an unhinged “missile game”\u003c/a> from the 1960s and ’70s — look positively tame.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This one kid who made nitroglycerine\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m not going to be able to say this any better than Herb Caen did in a 1951 column for the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner, \u003c/em>so let’s just use his words:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bob Zwieg, 15-year-old … made up his mind months ago that he was going to produce the biggest Fourth of July explosion in San Anselmo, where his family has a summer place. ‘Yup, I’m gonna make me some nitroglycerine’ he kept saying, and his mother humored him. ‘You go right ahead, sonny,’ she soothed as he pored over chemistry books and fiddled with laboratory doo-dads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday morning he announced, ‘I’m ready to make the big noise.’ He put the gloop in a pot, began stirring it and — wham! The roar was still fading away while young Bob was being rushed to Ross Hospital with burns, singed eyebrows and slight shock. Anyway, it was the biggest noise in San Anselmo on July Fourth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This is what happens when we underestimate the determination of our young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13934557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13934557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Two small boys boxing inside a ring surrounded by middle aged men wearing overcoats and suits.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-768x507.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260-1536x1014.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1450837708-scaled-e1694207054260.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a certain point, it’s fairly impossible to not just blame the adults in the room… \u003ccite>(B Alfieri/ Mirrorpix via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The ‘toy’ gun tinkerers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1903, one Clarence Ito of Grayson St. in West Berkeley found himself with a toy gun that was refusing to fire. He, naturally, responded to this by staring down the barrel of the weapon and pulling the trigger. According to an issue of \u003cem>The Call\u003c/em> at the time, Clarence was left with “a big hole in his cheek, just a little below the eye, and it required the services of a physician and a large amount of thread to sew it together again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-five years later, toy guns and the kids that owned them were still doing each other dirty. A 1938 edition of \u003cem>The Examiner\u003c/em> reported that a 14-year-old Hayward boy had a .22 caliber bullet lodged in his jaw after he and two friends decided to shove the ammo into an air gun and see what would happen. The injured kid’s condition was described as “not serious,” but would \u003cem>you\u003c/em> want a bullet lodged in your jaw? I’m gonna go with nope.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The blasting cap hoarders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those of you without a working knowledge of the history of demolition, blasting (or dynamite) caps were basically detonators designed to set off small explosions in order to ignite bigger ones. And apparently, in the ’30s and ’40s, they were just lying around willy-nilly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1948, Tony Martin found a box of blasting caps on San Mateo’s Rockaway Beach. He would later tell staff of the Mission Emergency Hospital that he “knew they were dangerous after [he] read about them in the newspaper,” but decided to throw a rock at one anyway. He was treated for burns and shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13927540","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Twelve-year-old Billy Douglas got off a little easier in 1937 after San Francisco cops raided his home to confiscate Billy’s large collection of dynamite caps. They removed the detonators without anyone getting hurt, and Billy was transparent about the fact that he had been planning a large explosion on his street (Geary, incidentally) for Fourth of July celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse than Billy were the six high school friends who got shaken down by cops in 1947 after it was discovered that they had managed to collect a bunch of dynamite, a box of blasting caps and 10 pounds of blasting powder. The kids — students from Balboa High School and Horace Mann Junior High — had been stashing the explosives in their parents’ basements. No word on what exactly this band of hooligans were planning to do with it all, but the students all got off with warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take that, Gen X!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13934227/history-kids-weapons-dynamite-30s-40s-50s-tweens-with-bombs","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_6660","arts_14353","arts_10278"],"featImg":"arts_13934229","label":"arts"},"arts_13931210":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13931210","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13931210","score":null,"sort":[1688677399000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-bay-shag-arch-blossom-rock-dynamite-exploded","title":"Victorians Sure Liked Blowing Up Islands in the Bay Back in the Day","publishDate":1688677399,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Victorians Sure Liked Blowing Up Islands in the Bay Back in the Day | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>You know that old stereotype about Victorians being genteel and of restrained dispositions? Lies. All lies. Turns out that nothing got these cats more excited than blowing stuff up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909983']Let’s not forget that in 1896, Golden Gate Park horticulturalist John McLaren decided that exploding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909983/victorian-attractions-san-francisco-chutes-gravity-railroad-woodwards-gardens-bonet-tower-auditorium-skating\">Bonet’s Electric Tower\u003c/a> into a gazillion pieces would be way more fun than the city having its very own Eiffel Tower forever. Then there’s the mortifying fact that much of the destruction from the 1906 earthquake was caused by the doofuses who decided that dynamiting the streets was the best way to stop the spread of fire. (Obviously the situation was desperate but come on, people…)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make no mistake: If ever there was an excuse to make something explode, humans at the turn of the century damn well used it. And once these maniacs set their sights on the Bay waters, a series of islands minding their own business providing perches for seagulls and whatnot just didn’t stand a chance. Considering them obstructions that posed a danger to passing ships, the Victorians quickly concluded that dramatically obliterating them into airborne shrapnel was the best possible solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, we know — thanks to some extremely diligent and detailed reporting at the time — that the relish everyone in the region took in all that wanton destruction was immense. Please now journey back with us as we examine just how much this unhinged generation of people enjoyed blowing crap up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Blossom Rock\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-800x609.png\" alt=\"A line drawing shows a cheering crowd facing a water column shooting up from a bay. Text above it reads: THE LAST OF BLOSSOM ROCK.\" width=\"800\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-800x609.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-1020x776.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-160x122.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-768x584.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1.png 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blossom Rock, as depicted in ‘The San Francisco Examiner’ in a nostalgic story from July 1930. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Blossom Rock got blown to pieces by Colonel A. W. von Schmidt in 1870, the city of San Francisco collectively lost its damn mind. \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> later reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For days and weeks the public was in a state of expectancy, and when the moment arrived, excitement was keyed up to the highest pitch. The occasion was made a holiday in the city. The entire town seemed to be on the bay or at the water front. Telegraph Hill never before held such a crowd. A big crowd scrambled on to the roof of an observatory and the roof collapsed, resulting in injuries to many. Out on the bay, everything that could get up steam or rig a sail and hold together was pressed into service, and all the craft was crowded with excursionists.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the public that approached the end of Blossom Rock with zeal. Colonel von Schmidt went so hard, one can’t help but wonder if he had personal business with the outcrop. The San Francisco local had managed to win the contract to destroy Blossom Rock after coming up with a budget that was a quarter of the projected cost. Then he went about hollowing out the rock and jamming it full of explosives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The column of water and debris that shot up after the island was detonated was 300 feet high and prompted the gathered, over-excited crowds to cheer with delight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychopaths, one and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shag Rock\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931217\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-800x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-800x683.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-1020x871.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-768x656.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900.png 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rough diagrams comparing the destruction methods used on Blossom Rock and Shag Rock, as seen in ‘The San Francisco Examiner’ on April 27, 1900. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though very much appreciated by everyone who witnessed its destruction, the end of Blossom Rock was positively quaint compared to what happened to Shag Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2,192-square-foot island met its end just after 3 p.m. on April 30, 1900, and the resulting explosion shot up 981 feet into the air. \u003cem>The San Francisco Call\u003c/em> described it as “one of the most beautiful and impressive sights ever seen on the bay of San Francisco,” and went on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the twinkling of an eye, a huge mass of rock and water and splintered lumber … were flying heavenward. Long before the water had ceased mounting upward, the rock was falling back into the water and the splash, splash, splash of the huge pieces could be heard a mile away … The water over the spot once marked by Shag Rock continued its boil for nearly 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Thousands of spectators on Alcatraz, Angel Island, Telegraph and Russian Hills and at the Presidio marveled at the sight, and around 100 boats sailed out to see what was left of Shag Rock. “They witnessed one of the grandest sights ever seen on the bay of San Francisco,” \u003cem>The Call\u003c/em> reported the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, people had already started to wonder if Shag Rock was blown up enough. “Nearly all the rock that got blown into the air fell back into the hole again and this has now to be removed,” one \u003cem>Call\u003c/em> reporter wrote on May 4, 1900. “If divers and dredgers cannot do the work, then torpedoes will be used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These people were bonkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shag Rock No. 2\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931218\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 596px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Call-06-Sep-1900.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"1042\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Call-06-Sep-1900.png 596w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Call-06-Sep-1900-160x280.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A depiction of the water column that shot out of the Bay when Shag Rock No. 2 was destroyed, as seen in ‘The San Francisco Call’ on Sept. 6, 1900. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Call)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first Shag Rock had been considered a major shipping hazard, but No. 2, located half a mile north of Alcatraz, was almost more hated because the 1,863-square-foot rectangle of rock lay entirely underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the first Shag Rock (150 feet from where No. 2 was) had gone, No. 2 was even easier to hit by boat, making it all the more treacherous. Within six months, the sandstone, quartz and basalt structure had, rather unsurprisingly, been annihilated by whooping Victorians. And this time, the explosion — made by 10 tons of nitro-gelatin spread across 150 charges — made it all the way up to 1,106 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> described the sight thusly: “From an artistic standpoint, the blowing up of Shag rock No. 2 was a perfect success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Chronicle\u003c/em> called it “one of the grandest spectacles ever witnessed in this part of the world,” and noted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Impressive as was … the blowing up of Shag Rock … could not be compared in majestic beauty with yesterday’s display. Not only did the amount of explosive materials used yesterday exceed by an entire ton the quantity used in leveling the first rock, but the column of water which shot upward from the depths was unspotted by the earthen crust of the shattered rock and for several seconds after reaching its greatest height shone splendidly in the bright sun like a gigantic marble column.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Newspapers also happily reported on all the fish murdered by the explosion. Waiting fishermen rushed in afterwards to retrieve cod, perch, sardines and one 45-pound sea bass. Waste not want not, I guess?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arch Rock\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-800x612.png\" alt=\"A black and white illustration showing a small island surrounded by boats and construction.\" width=\"800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-800x612.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-1020x781.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-160x122.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-768x588.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM.png 1390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of Arch Rock, as seen in ‘The San Francisco Call’ on Sept. 19, 1900. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Call)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The destruction of the 30-foot-high Arch Rock was at least a little controversial. Sausalito and Tiburon residents were most attached to the picturesque rock formation and begged local authorities to attach a beacon light to the land to make it safer, rather than removing it altogether. Predictably, those in charge opted for a solution involving 35 tons of gelatin packed into 250 charges instead. But not before the man responsible for that handiwork, Robert Axman, had allowed some ladies onto the explosives-laden rock formation to play with the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 16, 1901, \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Twenty-five members of the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, civil mechanical and mining engineers, accompanied by the ladies of their families, visited Arch Rock yesterday morning on a tug as the guests of Robert Axman … The ladies stuck their fingers into this mountain-moving explosive yesterday afternoon. They probed and poked when the man in charge told them that it would not go off unless severely kicked. It comes in a black tar-coated package the size of a stove pipe and quivers to the touch like new cheese.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Nothing to see here!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly afterwards, Axman had his daughter Florence detonate the explosives using “a tiny knob” on a barge that floated 4,000 feet away from the Arch. The public started gathering to watch a full two hours before the island was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 16, 1901, \u003cem>The San Francisco Call\u003c/em> provided an elaborate description of the bomb:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>With a low rumble and a sharp subsequent explosion this landmark of the northern bay flew helter-skelter into space … The emulsion of sea water towered aloft and hung like a grim, huge specter over the scene of destruction. It remained long enough for the sun to play upon it and produce glimmering, scintillating light effects … Timbers, rock and sea water beat into a foam spread for a half-mile around the one-time jutting rock. A small-sized tidal wave was kicked up.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A month later, the same newspaper made another, rather bleaker, observation. “All the shags and sea fowl that used to congregate on Shag and Arch rocks have disappeared since the work of destruction began. Seafaring men are now wondering what new abode they have found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine that.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Citing them as shipping obstructions, turn-of-the-century folks opted to blow up multiple rock formations, seagulls be damned.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005309,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1573},"headData":{"title":"The San Francisco Bay Islands Blown Up by Victorians | KQED","description":"Citing them as shipping obstructions, turn-of-the-century folks opted to blow up multiple rock formations, seagulls be damned.","ogTitle":"Victorians Sure Liked Blowing Up Islands in the Bay Back in the Day","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Victorians Sure Liked Blowing Up Islands in the Bay Back in the Day","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"The San Francisco Bay Islands Blown Up by Victorians %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/3127284f-fb7b-43f1-886a-b03d01777fc1/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13931210/san-francisco-bay-shag-arch-blossom-rock-dynamite-exploded","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You know that old stereotype about Victorians being genteel and of restrained dispositions? Lies. All lies. Turns out that nothing got these cats more excited than blowing stuff up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13909983","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Let’s not forget that in 1896, Golden Gate Park horticulturalist John McLaren decided that exploding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909983/victorian-attractions-san-francisco-chutes-gravity-railroad-woodwards-gardens-bonet-tower-auditorium-skating\">Bonet’s Electric Tower\u003c/a> into a gazillion pieces would be way more fun than the city having its very own Eiffel Tower forever. Then there’s the mortifying fact that much of the destruction from the 1906 earthquake was caused by the doofuses who decided that dynamiting the streets was the best way to stop the spread of fire. (Obviously the situation was desperate but come on, people…)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make no mistake: If ever there was an excuse to make something explode, humans at the turn of the century damn well used it. And once these maniacs set their sights on the Bay waters, a series of islands minding their own business providing perches for seagulls and whatnot just didn’t stand a chance. Considering them obstructions that posed a danger to passing ships, the Victorians quickly concluded that dramatically obliterating them into airborne shrapnel was the best possible solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, we know — thanks to some extremely diligent and detailed reporting at the time — that the relish everyone in the region took in all that wanton destruction was immense. Please now journey back with us as we examine just how much this unhinged generation of people enjoyed blowing crap up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Blossom Rock\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-800x609.png\" alt=\"A line drawing shows a cheering crowd facing a water column shooting up from a bay. Text above it reads: THE LAST OF BLOSSOM ROCK.\" width=\"800\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-800x609.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-1020x776.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-160x122.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1-768x584.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.00.21-PM-1.png 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blossom Rock, as depicted in ‘The San Francisco Examiner’ in a nostalgic story from July 1930. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Blossom Rock got blown to pieces by Colonel A. W. von Schmidt in 1870, the city of San Francisco collectively lost its damn mind. \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> later reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For days and weeks the public was in a state of expectancy, and when the moment arrived, excitement was keyed up to the highest pitch. The occasion was made a holiday in the city. The entire town seemed to be on the bay or at the water front. Telegraph Hill never before held such a crowd. A big crowd scrambled on to the roof of an observatory and the roof collapsed, resulting in injuries to many. Out on the bay, everything that could get up steam or rig a sail and hold together was pressed into service, and all the craft was crowded with excursionists.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the public that approached the end of Blossom Rock with zeal. Colonel von Schmidt went so hard, one can’t help but wonder if he had personal business with the outcrop. The San Francisco local had managed to win the contract to destroy Blossom Rock after coming up with a budget that was a quarter of the projected cost. Then he went about hollowing out the rock and jamming it full of explosives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The column of water and debris that shot up after the island was detonated was 300 feet high and prompted the gathered, over-excited crowds to cheer with delight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychopaths, one and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shag Rock\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931217\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-800x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-800x683.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-1020x871.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900-768x656.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Examiner-27-Apr-1900.png 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rough diagrams comparing the destruction methods used on Blossom Rock and Shag Rock, as seen in ‘The San Francisco Examiner’ on April 27, 1900. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though very much appreciated by everyone who witnessed its destruction, the end of Blossom Rock was positively quaint compared to what happened to Shag Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2,192-square-foot island met its end just after 3 p.m. on April 30, 1900, and the resulting explosion shot up 981 feet into the air. \u003cem>The San Francisco Call\u003c/em> described it as “one of the most beautiful and impressive sights ever seen on the bay of San Francisco,” and went on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the twinkling of an eye, a huge mass of rock and water and splintered lumber … were flying heavenward. Long before the water had ceased mounting upward, the rock was falling back into the water and the splash, splash, splash of the huge pieces could be heard a mile away … The water over the spot once marked by Shag Rock continued its boil for nearly 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Thousands of spectators on Alcatraz, Angel Island, Telegraph and Russian Hills and at the Presidio marveled at the sight, and around 100 boats sailed out to see what was left of Shag Rock. “They witnessed one of the grandest sights ever seen on the bay of San Francisco,” \u003cem>The Call\u003c/em> reported the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, people had already started to wonder if Shag Rock was blown up enough. “Nearly all the rock that got blown into the air fell back into the hole again and this has now to be removed,” one \u003cem>Call\u003c/em> reporter wrote on May 4, 1900. “If divers and dredgers cannot do the work, then torpedoes will be used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These people were bonkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shag Rock No. 2\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931218\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 596px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Call-06-Sep-1900.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"1042\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Call-06-Sep-1900.png 596w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-San-Francisco-Call-06-Sep-1900-160x280.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A depiction of the water column that shot out of the Bay when Shag Rock No. 2 was destroyed, as seen in ‘The San Francisco Call’ on Sept. 6, 1900. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Call)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first Shag Rock had been considered a major shipping hazard, but No. 2, located half a mile north of Alcatraz, was almost more hated because the 1,863-square-foot rectangle of rock lay entirely underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the first Shag Rock (150 feet from where No. 2 was) had gone, No. 2 was even easier to hit by boat, making it all the more treacherous. Within six months, the sandstone, quartz and basalt structure had, rather unsurprisingly, been annihilated by whooping Victorians. And this time, the explosion — made by 10 tons of nitro-gelatin spread across 150 charges — made it all the way up to 1,106 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> described the sight thusly: “From an artistic standpoint, the blowing up of Shag rock No. 2 was a perfect success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Chronicle\u003c/em> called it “one of the grandest spectacles ever witnessed in this part of the world,” and noted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Impressive as was … the blowing up of Shag Rock … could not be compared in majestic beauty with yesterday’s display. Not only did the amount of explosive materials used yesterday exceed by an entire ton the quantity used in leveling the first rock, but the column of water which shot upward from the depths was unspotted by the earthen crust of the shattered rock and for several seconds after reaching its greatest height shone splendidly in the bright sun like a gigantic marble column.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Newspapers also happily reported on all the fish murdered by the explosion. Waiting fishermen rushed in afterwards to retrieve cod, perch, sardines and one 45-pound sea bass. Waste not want not, I guess?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arch Rock\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-800x612.png\" alt=\"A black and white illustration showing a small island surrounded by boats and construction.\" width=\"800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-800x612.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-1020x781.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-160x122.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM-768x588.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-05-at-4.39.55-PM.png 1390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of Arch Rock, as seen in ‘The San Francisco Call’ on Sept. 19, 1900. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Call)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The destruction of the 30-foot-high Arch Rock was at least a little controversial. Sausalito and Tiburon residents were most attached to the picturesque rock formation and begged local authorities to attach a beacon light to the land to make it safer, rather than removing it altogether. Predictably, those in charge opted for a solution involving 35 tons of gelatin packed into 250 charges instead. But not before the man responsible for that handiwork, Robert Axman, had allowed some ladies onto the explosives-laden rock formation to play with the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 16, 1901, \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Twenty-five members of the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, civil mechanical and mining engineers, accompanied by the ladies of their families, visited Arch Rock yesterday morning on a tug as the guests of Robert Axman … The ladies stuck their fingers into this mountain-moving explosive yesterday afternoon. They probed and poked when the man in charge told them that it would not go off unless severely kicked. It comes in a black tar-coated package the size of a stove pipe and quivers to the touch like new cheese.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Nothing to see here!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly afterwards, Axman had his daughter Florence detonate the explosives using “a tiny knob” on a barge that floated 4,000 feet away from the Arch. The public started gathering to watch a full two hours before the island was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 16, 1901, \u003cem>The San Francisco Call\u003c/em> provided an elaborate description of the bomb:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>With a low rumble and a sharp subsequent explosion this landmark of the northern bay flew helter-skelter into space … The emulsion of sea water towered aloft and hung like a grim, huge specter over the scene of destruction. It remained long enough for the sun to play upon it and produce glimmering, scintillating light effects … Timbers, rock and sea water beat into a foam spread for a half-mile around the one-time jutting rock. A small-sized tidal wave was kicked up.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A month later, the same newspaper made another, rather bleaker, observation. “All the shags and sea fowl that used to congregate on Shag and Arch rocks have disappeared since the work of destruction began. Seafaring men are now wondering what new abode they have found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine that.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13931210/san-francisco-bay-shag-arch-blossom-rock-dynamite-exploded","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_6660","arts_14353","arts_10278"],"featImg":"arts_13931220","label":"arts"},"arts_13927540":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13927540","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13927540","score":null,"sort":[1682373943000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"qued-and-phred-weird-kqed-auction-mascots-devil","title":"Remembering Qued and Phred, the Weirdest Mascots in KQED History","publishDate":1682373943,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Remembering Qued and Phred, the Weirdest Mascots in KQED History | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>If you’re an old-school KQED viewer, you might remember Qued and Phred — the very strange mascots of the now-defunct annual KQED auction. Qued is a mischievous-looking giant red devil creature who walks on all fours and often carries a “sold” sign in his mouth. Phred, who can usually be seen leading Qued on a leash, is what would happen if the Monopoly man had a baby with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babadook\">the Babadook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For reasons that are fairly unfathomable now, these two “Monster Mash”-looking weirdos were an integral part of mainstream KQED culture between 1960 and 1990. Qued and Phred’s images adorned T-shirts, belt buckles, advertisements and studio backdrops. Now and again, we as a TV channel even made volunteers climb into mascot costumes in Qued and Phred’s likenesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember the first time I saw [the Qued costume],” says former auction worker Marianne Fu-Petroni. “It was a real big, human-sized costume. I was like ‘Somebody gets into there?!’ You know, you can’t really keep it clean after so many years…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM-800x1011.png\" alt=\"A man and woman stand between a table and a lined board with a list of items on it. They are surrounded by random objects including a clock, painting of flowers, carving of an Indigenous person, and full-sized figures of a devil and a man in a top hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1011\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM-800x1011.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM-160x202.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM-768x971.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM.png 932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qued and Phred looming terrifyingly over a KQED auction scene. \u003ccite>(KQED Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The design for Qued and Phred arrived in 1960, five years after the first live auction was launched to keep KQED’s lights on. The characters came into being when a volunteer named Frannie Fleishhacker (wife of prominent Bay Area businessman \u003ca href=\"https://www.fleishhackerfoundation.org/about/history\">Mortimer Fleishhacker\u003c/a>) decided to seek out an eye-catching logo for the auction. Frannie reached out to Oakland advertising company \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_%26_Kleiser\">Foster & Kleiser\u003c/a> to see if anyone would be willing to create a design, gratis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909983']A young illustrator named John DeBonis answered the call and took it upon himself to draw “a weird guy — you might even call him villainous — who goes to the auction and brings home something equally weird,” DeBonis later explained. “It seemed like it would be kind of fun. Not too deadly serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons DeBonis’ design was so seemingly out of step with the idea of public media is because he had almost no idea what KQED was. “It was a little peanut of a station in those days,” he told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> in 1971. “We didn’t even have a television set at the time and I had never seen their programs. The initial reaction [to Qued and Phred] at KQED was a pleasant one but I don’t recall that anyone jumped up and down…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Qued character garnered a solid following fairly quickly. By the time the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> sat down with DeBonis for that interview, the paper was reporting that, despite Qued having “a slightly lewd expression … it’s impossible not to return his grin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-800x627.jpg\" alt=\"Two stuffed toys. One is a white-faced figure with red eyes and grin of fangs, wearing a black suit and top hat. The other is a grinning red devil with pointed tail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-800x627.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-1020x800.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-768x602.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-1536x1204.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phred and Qued in stuffy form. These toys were once available to buy at auction — and they didn’t come cheap. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Qued had a title from the time of his inception, it would take Phred a full 16 years to get his own name. That happened in May 1976, when KQED decided to hold — and please do marvel at how creative this title is — “A Contest to Name the Little Guy Who Leads Around the Qued Monster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Berkeley Gazette\u003c/em> happily reported later that month that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The winner was Peggy Fuson of Pinole who has christened the little man ‘King Phrederick IX, Pretender to the Throne of Bryant Street.’ Ms. Fuson, who wrote a ballad to go along with the new name is willing to let the monster man be called Phred for short.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(So yes, people were definitely doing a lot of drugs in the 1970s.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Three separate images: One of four gold belt buckles, all depicting different versions of the same devil monster. One of a white watch with the devil monster on the clock face. One yellow t-shirt featuring the monster as seen on an auction broadcast.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qued merch from decades past. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a representative of an unusual auction item, Qued wasn’t far off from reality. The KQED auction was indeed, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CdG334I_Ew\">hodgepodge of anything and everything\u003c/a> you could possibly think of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13910308']Auction items were gathered by volunteers and “auction solicitors” literally going door-to-door and calling around asking for donations. Paintings, clothing, food and wine, office, garden and pool equipment and even some houses (\u003cem>houses!\u003c/em>) were sold off alongside gift certificates for restaurants and other Bay Area businesses. In the late ’60s, Qued toys were so sought after, they sold for an impressive $100 (about $800 today).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auction also featured so-called “priceless items” — experiences you couldn’t buy anywhere else. In 1970, a dinner with beloved \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> columnist Herb Caen was auctioned for $300 (about $2,300 in 2023 money). That same year, dinners with Giants legends Willie Mays and Willie McCovey went for $350. On another occasion, Martin Yan of PBS’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://yancancook.com/home/\">Yan Can Cook\u003c/a>\u003c/em> offered up a homemade dinner for 12 people. He was stunned when someone bid $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most shocking things, looking back, is that living animals were also auctioned off on the air. These included an English bulldog donated by the Charter Bank of London and livestock. One year, a steer that had been raised on then-presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson’s Texas ranch found itself on the auction block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-800x1043.jpg\" alt=\"A model wearing a 1950s-style gown stands, smiling broadly, in front of a TV camera. At her side is a calf.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1043\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-800x1043.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-1020x1330.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-768x1001.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-1571x2048.jpg 1571w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-1920x2503.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-scaled.jpg 1964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cow. Up for auction. In the KQED studio. Next to a woman in a gown. Yeah. \u003ccite>(KQED Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What started in 1955 as a 12-hour auction morphed, over the years, into a grueling 10-day marathon at the Cow Palace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13927137']“The auction generally went from 8 a.m. to midnight,” recalls KQED’s Fu-Petroni, now executive director of membership operations. “In 1988 though, on the last night of the auction, they didn’t stop at midnight. They were just grabbing random stuff to auction! \u003ca href=\"https://emmysf.tv/circles/gold-circle-members/scalem-jim/\">Jimmy Scalem\u003c/a> was one of the auctioneers and he could just talk and talk and talk. Right around four in the morning, the phone rang on one of the desks and it was my mother asking when I was coming home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The KQED auction peaked in 1985, earning a final (astonishing) tally of $1.5 million. By 1990, however, it was calculated that for every dollar earned, 50 cents was being spent on organizing the auction. That, along with plummeting viewing figures (and an audience that wasn’t sticking around for regular KQED programming) led the station to axe auctions in favor of pledge drives. When the wacky fundraiser went away, so too did Qued and Phred — a sadly unceremonious end to the oddest pairing in KQED history.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ever wonder why KQED once had a devil and a creepy little weirdo as mascots? Same!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005593,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1127},"headData":{"title":"KQED Mascots Qued and Phred Were Truly Bizarre | KQED","description":"Ever wonder why KQED once had a devil and a creepy little weirdo as mascots? Same!","ogTitle":"Remembering Qued and Phred, the Weirdest Mascots in KQED History","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Remembering Qued and Phred, the Weirdest Mascots in KQED History","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"KQED Mascots Qued and Phred Were Truly Bizarre %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/1520d59a-f7ff-469b-8ede-affe016b47de/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13927540/qued-and-phred-weird-kqed-auction-mascots-devil","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’re an old-school KQED viewer, you might remember Qued and Phred — the very strange mascots of the now-defunct annual KQED auction. Qued is a mischievous-looking giant red devil creature who walks on all fours and often carries a “sold” sign in his mouth. Phred, who can usually be seen leading Qued on a leash, is what would happen if the Monopoly man had a baby with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babadook\">the Babadook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For reasons that are fairly unfathomable now, these two “Monster Mash”-looking weirdos were an integral part of mainstream KQED culture between 1960 and 1990. Qued and Phred’s images adorned T-shirts, belt buckles, advertisements and studio backdrops. Now and again, we as a TV channel even made volunteers climb into mascot costumes in Qued and Phred’s likenesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember the first time I saw [the Qued costume],” says former auction worker Marianne Fu-Petroni. “It was a real big, human-sized costume. I was like ‘Somebody gets into there?!’ You know, you can’t really keep it clean after so many years…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM-800x1011.png\" alt=\"A man and woman stand between a table and a lined board with a list of items on it. They are surrounded by random objects including a clock, painting of flowers, carving of an Indigenous person, and full-sized figures of a devil and a man in a top hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1011\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM-800x1011.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM-160x202.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM-768x971.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-6.08.51-PM.png 932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qued and Phred looming terrifyingly over a KQED auction scene. \u003ccite>(KQED Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The design for Qued and Phred arrived in 1960, five years after the first live auction was launched to keep KQED’s lights on. The characters came into being when a volunteer named Frannie Fleishhacker (wife of prominent Bay Area businessman \u003ca href=\"https://www.fleishhackerfoundation.org/about/history\">Mortimer Fleishhacker\u003c/a>) decided to seek out an eye-catching logo for the auction. Frannie reached out to Oakland advertising company \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_%26_Kleiser\">Foster & Kleiser\u003c/a> to see if anyone would be willing to create a design, gratis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13909983","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A young illustrator named John DeBonis answered the call and took it upon himself to draw “a weird guy — you might even call him villainous — who goes to the auction and brings home something equally weird,” DeBonis later explained. “It seemed like it would be kind of fun. Not too deadly serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons DeBonis’ design was so seemingly out of step with the idea of public media is because he had almost no idea what KQED was. “It was a little peanut of a station in those days,” he told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> in 1971. “We didn’t even have a television set at the time and I had never seen their programs. The initial reaction [to Qued and Phred] at KQED was a pleasant one but I don’t recall that anyone jumped up and down…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Qued character garnered a solid following fairly quickly. By the time the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> sat down with DeBonis for that interview, the paper was reporting that, despite Qued having “a slightly lewd expression … it’s impossible not to return his grin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-800x627.jpg\" alt=\"Two stuffed toys. One is a white-faced figure with red eyes and grin of fangs, wearing a black suit and top hat. The other is a grinning red devil with pointed tail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-800x627.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-1020x800.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-768x602.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934-1536x1204.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_172205-scaled-e1682039140934.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phred and Qued in stuffy form. These toys were once available to buy at auction — and they didn’t come cheap. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Qued had a title from the time of his inception, it would take Phred a full 16 years to get his own name. That happened in May 1976, when KQED decided to hold — and please do marvel at how creative this title is — “A Contest to Name the Little Guy Who Leads Around the Qued Monster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Berkeley Gazette\u003c/em> happily reported later that month that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The winner was Peggy Fuson of Pinole who has christened the little man ‘King Phrederick IX, Pretender to the Throne of Bryant Street.’ Ms. Fuson, who wrote a ballad to go along with the new name is willing to let the monster man be called Phred for short.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(So yes, people were definitely doing a lot of drugs in the 1970s.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Three separate images: One of four gold belt buckles, all depicting different versions of the same devil monster. One of a white watch with the devil monster on the clock face. One yellow t-shirt featuring the monster as seen on an auction broadcast.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Swag-final-scaled-e1682038954623.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qued merch from decades past. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a representative of an unusual auction item, Qued wasn’t far off from reality. The KQED auction was indeed, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CdG334I_Ew\">hodgepodge of anything and everything\u003c/a> you could possibly think of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13910308","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Auction items were gathered by volunteers and “auction solicitors” literally going door-to-door and calling around asking for donations. Paintings, clothing, food and wine, office, garden and pool equipment and even some houses (\u003cem>houses!\u003c/em>) were sold off alongside gift certificates for restaurants and other Bay Area businesses. In the late ’60s, Qued toys were so sought after, they sold for an impressive $100 (about $800 today).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auction also featured so-called “priceless items” — experiences you couldn’t buy anywhere else. In 1970, a dinner with beloved \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> columnist Herb Caen was auctioned for $300 (about $2,300 in 2023 money). That same year, dinners with Giants legends Willie Mays and Willie McCovey went for $350. On another occasion, Martin Yan of PBS’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://yancancook.com/home/\">Yan Can Cook\u003c/a>\u003c/em> offered up a homemade dinner for 12 people. He was stunned when someone bid $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most shocking things, looking back, is that living animals were also auctioned off on the air. These included an English bulldog donated by the Charter Bank of London and livestock. One year, a steer that had been raised on then-presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson’s Texas ranch found itself on the auction block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-800x1043.jpg\" alt=\"A model wearing a 1950s-style gown stands, smiling broadly, in front of a TV camera. At her side is a calf.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1043\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-800x1043.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-1020x1330.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-768x1001.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-1571x2048.jpg 1571w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-1920x2503.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/20230420_174117-scaled.jpg 1964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cow. Up for auction. In the KQED studio. Next to a woman in a gown. Yeah. \u003ccite>(KQED Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What started in 1955 as a 12-hour auction morphed, over the years, into a grueling 10-day marathon at the Cow Palace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13927137","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The auction generally went from 8 a.m. to midnight,” recalls KQED’s Fu-Petroni, now executive director of membership operations. “In 1988 though, on the last night of the auction, they didn’t stop at midnight. They were just grabbing random stuff to auction! \u003ca href=\"https://emmysf.tv/circles/gold-circle-members/scalem-jim/\">Jimmy Scalem\u003c/a> was one of the auctioneers and he could just talk and talk and talk. Right around four in the morning, the phone rang on one of the desks and it was my mother asking when I was coming home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The KQED auction peaked in 1985, earning a final (astonishing) tally of $1.5 million. By 1990, however, it was calculated that for every dollar earned, 50 cents was being spent on organizing the auction. That, along with plummeting viewing figures (and an audience that wasn’t sticking around for regular KQED programming) led the station to axe auctions in favor of pledge drives. When the wacky fundraiser went away, so too did Qued and Phred — a sadly unceremonious end to the oddest pairing in KQED history.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13927540/qued-and-phred-weird-kqed-auction-mascots-devil","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_1331","arts_6660","arts_14353","arts_10342","arts_10278"],"featImg":"arts_13927591","label":"arts"},"arts_13927137":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13927137","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13927137","score":null,"sort":[1680285757000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-bars-monas-440-cobweb-palace-chinese-pagoda-elite-varieties","title":"5 Supremely Entertaining San Francisco Bars From History We Wish Still Existed","publishDate":1680285757,"format":"standard","headTitle":"5 Supremely Entertaining San Francisco Bars From History We Wish Still Existed | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco is blessed with a \u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/shorts/JpdIhxNOz60\">whole bunch of bars\u003c/a> that have been hanging around for almost as long as the city itself. There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oldshipsaloonsf.com/\">Old Ship Saloon\u003c/a>, named for the fact that it was originally housed inside a ship that ran aground in 1851. There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.elixirsf.com/\">Elixir\u003c/a> in the Mission, first established in 1858. And let’s not forget North Beach’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-saloon-san-francisco\">Saloon\u003c/a>, which has been there since 1861.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of the great ones survived. Here are five rip-roarin’ bars that, had they stuck around, would be regularly making all of our lives better.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Cobweb Palace\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13927138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557-800x615.jpg\" alt=\"An old gold rush era tavern with cluttered walls, a bar at the back of the room and a ceiling thoroughly covered in thick cobwebs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557-800x615.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557-768x591.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cobweb Palace was a haven for spiders, parrots, monkeys and, for some reason, weapons from around the world. Proprietor Abe Warner can be seen behind the bar here. Two of his beloved parrots swing on a perch in the center. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp33.00557)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abe Warner was a bona fide weirdo, but, in classic San Francisco fashion, the whole city loved him for it. Warner opened his ramshackle bar in 1856 on Francisco Street between Powell and Mason Streets, not far from where \u003ca href=\"http://www.sweetiesartbar.com/\">Sweetie’s Art Bar\u003c/a> stands today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13911589']The Cobweb Palace was full of taxidermy and weapons from around the world, including bone spears, harpoons, lances, Maori knives, axes, darts, bows, snares and jackknives. What Warner was best known for, however, was his love of small creatures. Monkeys and parrots roamed free at the bar, and the venue was named for the spider paradise that Warner allowed to form on his ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cobweb Palace stayed open for almost 40 years, and during that time Warner steadfastly refused to clean his ceiling out of respect for his arachnid friends. In a description published after Warner’s 1896 death at age 88, it was said that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Enormous strings of silky webs, which had become dark and heavy with the dust of years, hung from the ceiling and festooned the strange curios and pictures that adorned the wall. Some of these cobwebs were more than a yard in length and had not been disturbed for a quarter of a century or more. Old Warner seemed to regard the webs with as much pride as a collector bestows on rare and beautiful antiques. Every precaution was taken to keep them intact and a person could always get the proprietor into a good natured chat by remarking their size and evident age. The shelves of the saloon were laden with cobwebbed bottles counting all sorts of spirits and liquors.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Take that, health and sanitation rules!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mona’s 440 Club\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 466px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13927167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/GettyImages-1395607689.jpg\" alt=\"A large Black woman wearing a white tuxedo, top hat and gloves, as she holds a cane.\" width=\"466\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/GettyImages-1395607689.jpg 466w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/GettyImages-1395607689-160x204.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blues singer and pianist Gladys Bentley was the star performer at Mona’s 440 Club — a bar that embraced lesbians and crossdressing in the 1930s. \u003ccite>(Soibelman Syndicate Collection/Visual Studies Workshop/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When married couple Mona and Jimmie Sargeant first opened Mona’s, they envisioned a free-spirited hangout for local writers and artists. To their (probable) surprise, the people they actually attracted were predominantly — wouldn’t you know it? — genderfluid lesbians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sargeants embraced their best customers with gusto, employing drag king waitstaff and a variety of entertainers who were out, out, out. The bar openly advertised itself as a place “where girls can be boys.” Some ads told potential patrons to: “Join the carefree spirit and gayness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13924268']Major entertainers like \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moms_Mabley\">Moms Mabley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Shaw\">Beverly Shaw\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Williams\">Midge Williams\u003c/a> made appearances at Mona’s, but a typical show was more likely to feature the likes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/g732d917n\">Miss Jimmy Reynard\u003c/a>, Rose O’Neill (aka the “female Fred Astaire”) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/r494vk370\">Butch Minton\u003c/a> “singing gay songs.” One frequent headliner was pianist and blues singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Bentley\">Gladys Bentley,\u003c/a> who was known for performing while wearing striking top hat and tails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, after the Sargeants sold the club at 440 Broadway in the 1950s, the new owner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.queermusicheritage.com/jul2011ad.html\">Ann Dee\u003c/a>, shifted away from Mona’s sapphic central theme into much straighter territory — Johnny Mathis became one of its most popular performers. (Try not to boo.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Techau Tavern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13927139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A busy Victorian-era street lined with hotels and taverns. People in clothing of the era cross the street behind a classic San Francisco trolley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Techau Tavern, near Ellis Street. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp33.03290)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Techau Tavern was a big, fancy joint that had three different locations in downtown San Francisco in its lifetime. It was established in 1900 on Mason Street near Powell, then destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. It moved to 1321 Sutter near Van Ness for three years and finally wound up at 247 Powell. And, boy oh boy, was it luxurious. The entrance hall was marble, the dining room seated 600 people, the oval dance floor was solid mahogany and the walls were decorated with intricate murals and friezes. Crystal mirrors and chandeliers completed the ambiance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13925848']The reason Techau was truly awesome, though, was that it just loved giving its customers prizes (bribes?) for going there. The dance floor was decorated with numbers, and if you landed on the right one at the end of a song, you won something. The venue had a display window full of merchandise from men’s clothing store, the \u003ca href=\"https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/18362/\">Roos Brothers\u003c/a>. As such, the male clientele of the tavern often won all sorts of swag from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best competition Techau ever held took place in 1919. The tavern decided to give away a car — specifically, a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders_Automobile_Company\">Flanders electric automobile\u003c/a> — to one lucky lady. Every day, every woman who showed up at the bar between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m., and from 9:30 p.m. to closing, was given a coupon. The first number drawn won the car and nine other numbers gave chosen coupon holders yet more prizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re lucky to even get free bar snacks these days, for crying out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Chinese Pagoda\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13927147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"A block in San Francisco's Chinatown with many bars.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957-768x518.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chinese Pagoda, visible on the right, in the center of the block. June 1964. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp25.3957)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Look. We all love Li Po Lounge. Li Po Lounge is fantastic. But Chinatown would be an even more magical place if the Chinese Pagoda had survived too. The old bar at 830 Grant Avenue was one of the first to open up after the end of prohibition and predates Li Po by a couple of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914487']Though the Chinese Pagoda promised a “real oriental atmosphere” in its ads, it was actually a place where Eastern aesthetics met Western entertainment. Their waitstaff was made up of Asian Americans singing the songs of the day. One cocktail waitress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13914487/the-chinatown-nightclub-dancer-who-helped-squash-asian-stereotypes\">Mary Mammon\u003c/a> — a singer and dancer better known for her performances at Forbidden City (America’s first Chinese nightclub) — did a rendition of Ella Fitzgerald classic “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJcdNr-WIvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A-Tisket, A-Tasket\u003c/a>” that brought the house down every night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Chinese Pagoda, most white Americans had never seen Asian folks performing anything other than traditional Chinese opera. As such, the Pagoda was a game-changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, no trace remains that a bar was ever at 830 Grant. If you want to see it, its facade makes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance in the 1960 film \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054197/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Portrait in Black\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. It’ll make you wish it were still around today.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Elite Varieties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a-800x797.jpg\" alt=\"A sepia-toned image of a Chinese market with awning from the 19th century.\" width=\"800\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a-800x797.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a-768x765.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northeast corner of Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) and Clay in the 1880s. Dupont was awash with notorious dive bars at the time — but none was more infamous than Elite Varieties. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp24.187a)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sure, you took your life in your hands hanging out at Elite Varieties, but man, there was never a dull moment. Described as a dive by anyone who ever smelled the joint, Elite was one of the roughest bars in the whole city. Situated on the Northwest corner of Dupont (now Grant Avenue) and Geary Boulevard, the activities of everyone hanging around Elite often made headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue, which hosted “theatrical presentations” was described thusly by the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ten or twelve boxes curtained off and furnished with lockable doors are ranged along the side of the auditorium and in these boxes waitresses entice fast young clerks and verdant countrymen to spent their cash for drinks, which are supplied from two bars — one in front and one in the rear of the boxes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 12, 1884, police arrested a 17-year-old named Nellie Hart who had been living in one of those boxes for three weeks. The \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> reported that Hart was found, “Her hair banged and her face made hideous with paints and powders.” Her mother had reportedly ratted her out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following week, a cop in the bar broke his own club over the head of a sailor he was arresting for fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after that, a man named Warren Chapman was convicted of shooting a guy named John Moore inside Elite Varieties in an argument over a woman who had been seeing them both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13926069']A few weeks after that, when one of the bar’s patrons was arrested for murder, one of the actresses that worked at Elite filed a complaint with the police that — I’m not making this up — he’d stolen her opium pipe after the two had smoked from it together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elite Varieties was completely bananas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the years passed, things at the bar only got crazier. In 1887, a couple of ne’er-do-wells named Henry McLaughlin and Michael Hurley decided it would be an excellent idea to go grab a drink there, knowing full well that Hurley had been 86’d. (You have to wonder how one gets banned from such a place.) When the bartender recognized Hurley and ordered him outside, a brief scuffle erupted and a door guy was forced to intervene. Hurley, naturally, responded to this by shooting at the bouncer. (McLaughlin and Hurley were later convicted of the crime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1889, Elite’s proprietor George H. Rice was murdered inside his business by his own bouncer — shot four times, in fact. It’s unclear how long the bar stayed open after that, but it was surely wildly entertaining — and not a little dangerous — for as long as it lasted.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A look back at a 19th-century, cobweb-infested shack, a 1930s lesbian wonderland and other party spots of yore.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005676,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1718},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco History: 5 Long-Lost Taverns, Inns and Dives | KQED","description":"A look back at a 19th-century, cobweb-infested shack, a 1930s lesbian wonderland and other party spots of yore.","ogTitle":"5 Wild San Francisco Bars From History We Wish Still Existed","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"5 Wild San Francisco Bars From History We Wish Still Existed","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"San Francisco History: 5 Long-Lost Taverns, Inns and Dives %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/e68fcbd9-5a8c-4cb7-a85c-afe3017bf2d2/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13927137/san-francisco-bars-monas-440-cobweb-palace-chinese-pagoda-elite-varieties","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco is blessed with a \u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/shorts/JpdIhxNOz60\">whole bunch of bars\u003c/a> that have been hanging around for almost as long as the city itself. There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oldshipsaloonsf.com/\">Old Ship Saloon\u003c/a>, named for the fact that it was originally housed inside a ship that ran aground in 1851. There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.elixirsf.com/\">Elixir\u003c/a> in the Mission, first established in 1858. And let’s not forget North Beach’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-saloon-san-francisco\">Saloon\u003c/a>, which has been there since 1861.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of the great ones survived. Here are five rip-roarin’ bars that, had they stuck around, would be regularly making all of our lives better.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Cobweb Palace\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13927138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557-800x615.jpg\" alt=\"An old gold rush era tavern with cluttered walls, a bar at the back of the room and a ceiling thoroughly covered in thick cobwebs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557-800x615.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557-768x591.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.00557.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cobweb Palace was a haven for spiders, parrots, monkeys and, for some reason, weapons from around the world. Proprietor Abe Warner can be seen behind the bar here. Two of his beloved parrots swing on a perch in the center. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp33.00557)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abe Warner was a bona fide weirdo, but, in classic San Francisco fashion, the whole city loved him for it. Warner opened his ramshackle bar in 1856 on Francisco Street between Powell and Mason Streets, not far from where \u003ca href=\"http://www.sweetiesartbar.com/\">Sweetie’s Art Bar\u003c/a> stands today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13911589","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Cobweb Palace was full of taxidermy and weapons from around the world, including bone spears, harpoons, lances, Maori knives, axes, darts, bows, snares and jackknives. What Warner was best known for, however, was his love of small creatures. Monkeys and parrots roamed free at the bar, and the venue was named for the spider paradise that Warner allowed to form on his ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cobweb Palace stayed open for almost 40 years, and during that time Warner steadfastly refused to clean his ceiling out of respect for his arachnid friends. In a description published after Warner’s 1896 death at age 88, it was said that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Enormous strings of silky webs, which had become dark and heavy with the dust of years, hung from the ceiling and festooned the strange curios and pictures that adorned the wall. Some of these cobwebs were more than a yard in length and had not been disturbed for a quarter of a century or more. Old Warner seemed to regard the webs with as much pride as a collector bestows on rare and beautiful antiques. Every precaution was taken to keep them intact and a person could always get the proprietor into a good natured chat by remarking their size and evident age. The shelves of the saloon were laden with cobwebbed bottles counting all sorts of spirits and liquors.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Take that, health and sanitation rules!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mona’s 440 Club\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 466px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13927167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/GettyImages-1395607689.jpg\" alt=\"A large Black woman wearing a white tuxedo, top hat and gloves, as she holds a cane.\" width=\"466\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/GettyImages-1395607689.jpg 466w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/GettyImages-1395607689-160x204.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blues singer and pianist Gladys Bentley was the star performer at Mona’s 440 Club — a bar that embraced lesbians and crossdressing in the 1930s. \u003ccite>(Soibelman Syndicate Collection/Visual Studies Workshop/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When married couple Mona and Jimmie Sargeant first opened Mona’s, they envisioned a free-spirited hangout for local writers and artists. To their (probable) surprise, the people they actually attracted were predominantly — wouldn’t you know it? — genderfluid lesbians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sargeants embraced their best customers with gusto, employing drag king waitstaff and a variety of entertainers who were out, out, out. The bar openly advertised itself as a place “where girls can be boys.” Some ads told potential patrons to: “Join the carefree spirit and gayness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13924268","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Major entertainers like \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moms_Mabley\">Moms Mabley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Shaw\">Beverly Shaw\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Williams\">Midge Williams\u003c/a> made appearances at Mona’s, but a typical show was more likely to feature the likes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/g732d917n\">Miss Jimmy Reynard\u003c/a>, Rose O’Neill (aka the “female Fred Astaire”) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/r494vk370\">Butch Minton\u003c/a> “singing gay songs.” One frequent headliner was pianist and blues singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Bentley\">Gladys Bentley,\u003c/a> who was known for performing while wearing striking top hat and tails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, after the Sargeants sold the club at 440 Broadway in the 1950s, the new owner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.queermusicheritage.com/jul2011ad.html\">Ann Dee\u003c/a>, shifted away from Mona’s sapphic central theme into much straighter territory — Johnny Mathis became one of its most popular performers. (Try not to boo.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Techau Tavern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13927139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A busy Victorian-era street lined with hotels and taverns. People in clothing of the era cross the street behind a classic San Francisco trolley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp33.03290.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Techau Tavern, near Ellis Street. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp33.03290)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Techau Tavern was a big, fancy joint that had three different locations in downtown San Francisco in its lifetime. It was established in 1900 on Mason Street near Powell, then destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. It moved to 1321 Sutter near Van Ness for three years and finally wound up at 247 Powell. And, boy oh boy, was it luxurious. The entrance hall was marble, the dining room seated 600 people, the oval dance floor was solid mahogany and the walls were decorated with intricate murals and friezes. Crystal mirrors and chandeliers completed the ambiance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13925848","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The reason Techau was truly awesome, though, was that it just loved giving its customers prizes (bribes?) for going there. The dance floor was decorated with numbers, and if you landed on the right one at the end of a song, you won something. The venue had a display window full of merchandise from men’s clothing store, the \u003ca href=\"https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/18362/\">Roos Brothers\u003c/a>. As such, the male clientele of the tavern often won all sorts of swag from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best competition Techau ever held took place in 1919. The tavern decided to give away a car — specifically, a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders_Automobile_Company\">Flanders electric automobile\u003c/a> — to one lucky lady. Every day, every woman who showed up at the bar between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m., and from 9:30 p.m. to closing, was given a coupon. The first number drawn won the car and nine other numbers gave chosen coupon holders yet more prizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re lucky to even get free bar snacks these days, for crying out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Chinese Pagoda\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13927147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"A block in San Francisco's Chinatown with many bars.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957-768x518.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/opensfhistory_wnp25.3957.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chinese Pagoda, visible on the right, in the center of the block. June 1964. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp25.3957)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Look. We all love Li Po Lounge. Li Po Lounge is fantastic. But Chinatown would be an even more magical place if the Chinese Pagoda had survived too. The old bar at 830 Grant Avenue was one of the first to open up after the end of prohibition and predates Li Po by a couple of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13914487","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Though the Chinese Pagoda promised a “real oriental atmosphere” in its ads, it was actually a place where Eastern aesthetics met Western entertainment. Their waitstaff was made up of Asian Americans singing the songs of the day. One cocktail waitress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13914487/the-chinatown-nightclub-dancer-who-helped-squash-asian-stereotypes\">Mary Mammon\u003c/a> — a singer and dancer better known for her performances at Forbidden City (America’s first Chinese nightclub) — did a rendition of Ella Fitzgerald classic “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJcdNr-WIvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A-Tisket, A-Tasket\u003c/a>” that brought the house down every night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Chinese Pagoda, most white Americans had never seen Asian folks performing anything other than traditional Chinese opera. As such, the Pagoda was a game-changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, no trace remains that a bar was ever at 830 Grant. If you want to see it, its facade makes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance in the 1960 film \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054197/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Portrait in Black\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. It’ll make you wish it were still around today.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Elite Varieties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a-800x797.jpg\" alt=\"A sepia-toned image of a Chinese market with awning from the 19th century.\" width=\"800\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a-800x797.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a-768x765.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/opensfhistory_wnp24.187a.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northeast corner of Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) and Clay in the 1880s. Dupont was awash with notorious dive bars at the time — but none was more infamous than Elite Varieties. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp24.187a)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sure, you took your life in your hands hanging out at Elite Varieties, but man, there was never a dull moment. Described as a dive by anyone who ever smelled the joint, Elite was one of the roughest bars in the whole city. Situated on the Northwest corner of Dupont (now Grant Avenue) and Geary Boulevard, the activities of everyone hanging around Elite often made headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue, which hosted “theatrical presentations” was described thusly by the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ten or twelve boxes curtained off and furnished with lockable doors are ranged along the side of the auditorium and in these boxes waitresses entice fast young clerks and verdant countrymen to spent their cash for drinks, which are supplied from two bars — one in front and one in the rear of the boxes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 12, 1884, police arrested a 17-year-old named Nellie Hart who had been living in one of those boxes for three weeks. The \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> reported that Hart was found, “Her hair banged and her face made hideous with paints and powders.” Her mother had reportedly ratted her out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following week, a cop in the bar broke his own club over the head of a sailor he was arresting for fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after that, a man named Warren Chapman was convicted of shooting a guy named John Moore inside Elite Varieties in an argument over a woman who had been seeing them both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13926069","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A few weeks after that, when one of the bar’s patrons was arrested for murder, one of the actresses that worked at Elite filed a complaint with the police that — I’m not making this up — he’d stolen her opium pipe after the two had smoked from it together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elite Varieties was completely bananas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the years passed, things at the bar only got crazier. In 1887, a couple of ne’er-do-wells named Henry McLaughlin and Michael Hurley decided it would be an excellent idea to go grab a drink there, knowing full well that Hurley had been 86’d. (You have to wonder how one gets banned from such a place.) When the bartender recognized Hurley and ordered him outside, a brief scuffle erupted and a door guy was forced to intervene. Hurley, naturally, responded to this by shooting at the bouncer. (McLaughlin and Hurley were later convicted of the crime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1889, Elite’s proprietor George H. Rice was murdered inside his business by his own bouncer — shot four times, in fact. It’s unclear how long the bar stayed open after that, but it was surely wildly entertaining — and not a little dangerous — for as long as it lasted.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13927137/san-francisco-bars-monas-440-cobweb-palace-chinese-pagoda-elite-varieties","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_6660","arts_14353","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_21529","arts_20172"],"featImg":"arts_13927169","label":"arts"},"arts_13926069":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13926069","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13926069","score":null,"sort":[1680098412000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"meet-isabella-j-martin-the-crappiest-criminal-in-bay-area-history","title":"Meet Isabella J. Martin, the Crappiest Criminal in Bay Area History","publishDate":1680098412,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Meet Isabella J. Martin, the Crappiest Criminal in Bay Area History | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM-800x1048.png\" alt=\"A sour-faced white woman in high collared Victorian clothing and feathered hat stands with a numbered card attached to her chest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM-800x1048.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM-160x210.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM-768x1006.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM.png 812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella J. Martin after her 1908 arrest.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was deceitful, she was depraved, and she might have been truly dangerous if she’d ever stopped being so dim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was Isabella J. Martin, a woman whose attempted crimes spanned locations from San Francisco and Oakland all the way up to Weaverville, a small Gold Rush town 200 miles north of Sacramento. In her lifetime, Isabella committed a lot of offenses. They just rarely gave her the result she’d been hoping for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13925848']A New Yorker by birth, Isabella became California’s problem in 1882, when she turned 21 and moved west to Weaverville. Four years later, Isabella married a wealthy mine owner named John Martin who was 30 years her senior. A year into their marriage, Isabella came home from a trip to New York with a baby son and claimed he was John’s. She even named the child after him. A year after that, John Sr. was dead in mysterious circumstances and his brother Henry suspected Isabella had poisoned him. No one ever proved the murder either way, but the accusation thoroughly infuriated Isabella. So much so that when Henry, a San Francisco resident with his own family, died in 1893, Isabella came up with a preposterous scheme to try and get her hands on some of his cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1894, Isabella sued Henry’s family, presenting them with a forged will that said Henry wanted to leave her and John Jr. a third of his estate. She did this despite Henry’s family already being in possession of his actual will — one that he had written alongside his wife. Isabella repeatedly insinuated that John Jr. was really Henry’s son, the result of an illicit affair. She made this claim despite the fact that Henry had openly despised, badmouthed and actively avoided Isabella when he was alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Isabella was no doubt spurred on by the fact that she had used a child to extort money out of someone before. In 1885, she’d managed to convince a former lover named Andrew Crawford that she’d given birth to his baby. He sent her $1,000 to disappear. It would appear to be the first and last time one of Isabella’s crimes went according to plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13927045\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-28-at-12.12.39-PM.png\" alt=\"A black and white courtroom sketch from the turn of the century depicting a stern looking woman, wearing dark suit and hat.\" width=\"568\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-28-at-12.12.39-PM.png 568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-28-at-12.12.39-PM-160x182.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella J. Martin, as sketched in court. She reportedly wore a different outfit every day of her high profile trial against Henry Martin’s family.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Isabella’s court case against Henry’s family dragged on for three months — and the public couldn’t have been happier about it. Hundreds of spectators packed the court daily and San Francisco newspapers had a field day reporting on every tiny detail. Isabella’s self-confidence remained steadfast throughout the trial, despite her reputation getting torn to shreds in both the courtroom and the press on a daily basis. She was prone to violent outbursts that disrupted testimony. She also insisted on bringing her three-year-old son to the court every day — at one point even suggesting that the judge might like to take care of John Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goodness, no!” Judge Coffey exclaimed, according to a \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> report at the time. “I’m too busy! I’ve got work to do! Take the child anywhere. Put him on the desk, put him on the roof, but don’t bring him to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the case, Isabella was a laughingstock. Having learned absolutely nothing from any of it, in 1895 Isabella decided to go after Arthur Rodgers, the attorney who had exposed her lies in court. Isabella sued him for defamation of character because of Rodgers’ suggestion at the trial that John Jr. was, in fact, secretly adopted and was neither the biological son of John Sr. \u003cem>or\u003c/em> Henry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13924208']Isabella filed a second suit on behalf of John Jr. alleging that Rodgers had “defamed the child by attempting to bastardize him.” All told, she asked for $1 million in compensation — that’s almost $36 million in today’s money. While all of this was going on, Isabella was also sending Rodgers’ wife vaguely threatening letters. (“Arthur Rodgers can never, while life lasts, undertake or attempt anything that will not be closely followed by myself,” Isabella wrote in one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, Isabella didn’t win a penny. Moreover, the suits against Rodgers took on a whole new level of absurdity in 1907 when Isabella began claiming that John Jr. was, in fact, the biological son of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Ward,_Princesse_de_Caraman-Chimay\">Princess de Chimay\u003c/a>— a Detroit socialite named Clara Ward who’d married into Belgian royalty. Isabella of course, thought this assertion might entitle her to some of Ward’s money. It did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, Martin could’ve cut her losses and given up on her life of failed schemes. But she wasn’t done. In 1901, she forced her son to burn down two Oakland cottages she owned so she could collect the insurance money. When the Westchester Fire Insurance company refused to pay out, rightfully suspecting arson, Isabella — the genius! — sued them. That case was dismissed four years later by a judge named Frank B. Ogden who also suspected Isabella of foul play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is at this point that Isabella left the neighborhood of money-hungry scam artist and flew headlong into unhinged maniac territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after Judge Ogden threw her case out, Isabella hatched a plot to kill him and perhaps his family. One night, Isabella invited over a male admirer so she would have an alibi. She then gave John Jr. “an oil-skin coat and overalls” to wear, handed him a bomb she had made, and demanded he leave the device at Judge Ogden’s Alice Street home in Oakland. John Jr. lived in fear of his abusive mother, so did as he was told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not wishing to have blood on his hands, however, John Jr. did not put the bomb at the front of the house, as his mother had instructed. Seeing Ogden’s family gathered in the parlor there, John Jr. instead took the device around to the back of the house and left it on their veranda. When the bomb detonated, the veranda was destroyed and a portion of Judge Ogden’s house badly damaged, but nobody got hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isabella’s house of cards really started collapsing after John Jr. (now 16) was arrested after attempting to burn down a Weaverville barn on her behalf. He later told police that the man living in the barn had once failed to give Isabella “permission to stop in the New York Hotel on the ground that there was no room,” and that she still felt slighted by the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13863165']Once John Jr. was in police custody, he sang like a bird, relieved to finally be away from his domineering mother. He revealed that Isabella was in the process of building a bomb for another judge, George Samuels, because Samuels had once given Isabella what she considered bad legal advice. John Jr. even took the cops to his mom’s dynamite stashes to prove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Jr. also revealed details about the time that he and his mom had poisoned a barrel of sugar with lead powder at Hansen’s, an Oakland grocery store. “She had no grievance against Hansen,” John Jr. later testified, “but she wanted to get every person in town; she wanted to poison every man, woman and child in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead-in-the-sugar incident wasn’t the first time Isabella had sought to murder an entire community either. At one point, she had also put a combination of acetate and arsenic into what she thought was Weaverville’s water supply. In classic Isabella style, she put the poison in the wrong water spring. No humans were harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another occasion, Isabella had forced John Jr. to throw phosphorus onto the home and property of some neighbors she was having a spat with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 1908, a jury took just a few hours to convict Isabella of the bomb plot to kill Judge Ogden. Her defense during the trial was simply to blame her son for everything. Isabella testified against John Jr. at great length, emphasizing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He has been insane from his earlier youth. My life has been terrible watching him. I have seen him pin my canary to a fence and dance and clap his hands until the canary died… He has always played with fire… All his habits of life are those of a degenerate… He was born that way. I do not know to whom in heredity this reprehensible conduct is to be charged, but I do know it is not to me.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The jury believed none of it. Isabella was sentenced to life in prison, the latter half of which was served in a Napa mental institution — though, as far as records indicate, she never received a formal diagnosis. John Jr. went on to lead a good, law-abiding life once out of the clutches of his mother. Isabella wound up being one of the most ambitious but somehow least successful criminals in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isabella J. Martin spent her whole life wanting to watch the whole world burn. Fortunately, she never quite figured out how to light the match.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Isabella J. Martin tried extortion, arson, poisoning and bomb plots — and she sucked at all of it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005688,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1623},"headData":{"title":"Bay Area True Crime: Isabella J. Martin Wished Death on Oakland | KQED","description":"Isabella J. Martin tried extortion, arson, poisoning and bomb plots — and she sucked at all of it.","ogTitle":"Introducing Isabella J. Martin: the Crappiest Criminal in Bay Area History","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Introducing Isabella J. Martin: the Crappiest Criminal in Bay Area History","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Bay Area True Crime: Isabella J. Martin Wished Death on Oakland %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/b99544af-03bb-4bfa-83f0-afe9013fed12/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13926069/meet-isabella-j-martin-the-crappiest-criminal-in-bay-area-history","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM-800x1048.png\" alt=\"A sour-faced white woman in high collared Victorian clothing and feathered hat stands with a numbered card attached to her chest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM-800x1048.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM-160x210.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM-768x1006.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-4.11.31-PM.png 812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella J. Martin after her 1908 arrest.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was deceitful, she was depraved, and she might have been truly dangerous if she’d ever stopped being so dim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was Isabella J. Martin, a woman whose attempted crimes spanned locations from San Francisco and Oakland all the way up to Weaverville, a small Gold Rush town 200 miles north of Sacramento. In her lifetime, Isabella committed a lot of offenses. They just rarely gave her the result she’d been hoping for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13925848","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A New Yorker by birth, Isabella became California’s problem in 1882, when she turned 21 and moved west to Weaverville. Four years later, Isabella married a wealthy mine owner named John Martin who was 30 years her senior. A year into their marriage, Isabella came home from a trip to New York with a baby son and claimed he was John’s. She even named the child after him. A year after that, John Sr. was dead in mysterious circumstances and his brother Henry suspected Isabella had poisoned him. No one ever proved the murder either way, but the accusation thoroughly infuriated Isabella. So much so that when Henry, a San Francisco resident with his own family, died in 1893, Isabella came up with a preposterous scheme to try and get her hands on some of his cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1894, Isabella sued Henry’s family, presenting them with a forged will that said Henry wanted to leave her and John Jr. a third of his estate. She did this despite Henry’s family already being in possession of his actual will — one that he had written alongside his wife. Isabella repeatedly insinuated that John Jr. was really Henry’s son, the result of an illicit affair. She made this claim despite the fact that Henry had openly despised, badmouthed and actively avoided Isabella when he was alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Isabella was no doubt spurred on by the fact that she had used a child to extort money out of someone before. In 1885, she’d managed to convince a former lover named Andrew Crawford that she’d given birth to his baby. He sent her $1,000 to disappear. It would appear to be the first and last time one of Isabella’s crimes went according to plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13927045\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-28-at-12.12.39-PM.png\" alt=\"A black and white courtroom sketch from the turn of the century depicting a stern looking woman, wearing dark suit and hat.\" width=\"568\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-28-at-12.12.39-PM.png 568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-28-at-12.12.39-PM-160x182.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella J. Martin, as sketched in court. She reportedly wore a different outfit every day of her high profile trial against Henry Martin’s family.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Isabella’s court case against Henry’s family dragged on for three months — and the public couldn’t have been happier about it. Hundreds of spectators packed the court daily and San Francisco newspapers had a field day reporting on every tiny detail. Isabella’s self-confidence remained steadfast throughout the trial, despite her reputation getting torn to shreds in both the courtroom and the press on a daily basis. She was prone to violent outbursts that disrupted testimony. She also insisted on bringing her three-year-old son to the court every day — at one point even suggesting that the judge might like to take care of John Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goodness, no!” Judge Coffey exclaimed, according to a \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> report at the time. “I’m too busy! I’ve got work to do! Take the child anywhere. Put him on the desk, put him on the roof, but don’t bring him to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the case, Isabella was a laughingstock. Having learned absolutely nothing from any of it, in 1895 Isabella decided to go after Arthur Rodgers, the attorney who had exposed her lies in court. Isabella sued him for defamation of character because of Rodgers’ suggestion at the trial that John Jr. was, in fact, secretly adopted and was neither the biological son of John Sr. \u003cem>or\u003c/em> Henry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13924208","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Isabella filed a second suit on behalf of John Jr. alleging that Rodgers had “defamed the child by attempting to bastardize him.” All told, she asked for $1 million in compensation — that’s almost $36 million in today’s money. While all of this was going on, Isabella was also sending Rodgers’ wife vaguely threatening letters. (“Arthur Rodgers can never, while life lasts, undertake or attempt anything that will not be closely followed by myself,” Isabella wrote in one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, Isabella didn’t win a penny. Moreover, the suits against Rodgers took on a whole new level of absurdity in 1907 when Isabella began claiming that John Jr. was, in fact, the biological son of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Ward,_Princesse_de_Caraman-Chimay\">Princess de Chimay\u003c/a>— a Detroit socialite named Clara Ward who’d married into Belgian royalty. Isabella of course, thought this assertion might entitle her to some of Ward’s money. It did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, Martin could’ve cut her losses and given up on her life of failed schemes. But she wasn’t done. In 1901, she forced her son to burn down two Oakland cottages she owned so she could collect the insurance money. When the Westchester Fire Insurance company refused to pay out, rightfully suspecting arson, Isabella — the genius! — sued them. That case was dismissed four years later by a judge named Frank B. Ogden who also suspected Isabella of foul play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is at this point that Isabella left the neighborhood of money-hungry scam artist and flew headlong into unhinged maniac territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after Judge Ogden threw her case out, Isabella hatched a plot to kill him and perhaps his family. One night, Isabella invited over a male admirer so she would have an alibi. She then gave John Jr. “an oil-skin coat and overalls” to wear, handed him a bomb she had made, and demanded he leave the device at Judge Ogden’s Alice Street home in Oakland. John Jr. lived in fear of his abusive mother, so did as he was told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not wishing to have blood on his hands, however, John Jr. did not put the bomb at the front of the house, as his mother had instructed. Seeing Ogden’s family gathered in the parlor there, John Jr. instead took the device around to the back of the house and left it on their veranda. When the bomb detonated, the veranda was destroyed and a portion of Judge Ogden’s house badly damaged, but nobody got hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isabella’s house of cards really started collapsing after John Jr. (now 16) was arrested after attempting to burn down a Weaverville barn on her behalf. He later told police that the man living in the barn had once failed to give Isabella “permission to stop in the New York Hotel on the ground that there was no room,” and that she still felt slighted by the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13863165","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Once John Jr. was in police custody, he sang like a bird, relieved to finally be away from his domineering mother. He revealed that Isabella was in the process of building a bomb for another judge, George Samuels, because Samuels had once given Isabella what she considered bad legal advice. John Jr. even took the cops to his mom’s dynamite stashes to prove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Jr. also revealed details about the time that he and his mom had poisoned a barrel of sugar with lead powder at Hansen’s, an Oakland grocery store. “She had no grievance against Hansen,” John Jr. later testified, “but she wanted to get every person in town; she wanted to poison every man, woman and child in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead-in-the-sugar incident wasn’t the first time Isabella had sought to murder an entire community either. At one point, she had also put a combination of acetate and arsenic into what she thought was Weaverville’s water supply. In classic Isabella style, she put the poison in the wrong water spring. No humans were harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another occasion, Isabella had forced John Jr. to throw phosphorus onto the home and property of some neighbors she was having a spat with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 1908, a jury took just a few hours to convict Isabella of the bomb plot to kill Judge Ogden. Her defense during the trial was simply to blame her son for everything. Isabella testified against John Jr. at great length, emphasizing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He has been insane from his earlier youth. My life has been terrible watching him. I have seen him pin my canary to a fence and dance and clap his hands until the canary died… He has always played with fire… All his habits of life are those of a degenerate… He was born that way. I do not know to whom in heredity this reprehensible conduct is to be charged, but I do know it is not to me.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The jury believed none of it. Isabella was sentenced to life in prison, the latter half of which was served in a Napa mental institution — though, as far as records indicate, she never received a formal diagnosis. John Jr. went on to lead a good, law-abiding life once out of the clutches of his mother. Isabella wound up being one of the most ambitious but somehow least successful criminals in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isabella J. Martin spent her whole life wanting to watch the whole world burn. Fortunately, she never quite figured out how to light the match.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13926069/meet-isabella-j-martin-the-crappiest-criminal-in-bay-area-history","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_6660","arts_14353","arts_10278","arts_1143","arts_1146","arts_8366"],"featImg":"arts_13926073","label":"arts"},"arts_13919589":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13919589","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13919589","score":null,"sort":[1666127832000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"haunted-mansion-sutro-tower-kgo-television","title":"A ‘Haunted Mansion’ Once Stood Directly Under Sutro Tower","publishDate":1666127832,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A ‘Haunted Mansion’ Once Stood Directly Under Sutro Tower | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>In 1930, Adolph Gilbert Sutro decided to build a mansion on land that had been in his family since his more famous grandfather purchased it in the 1870s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plot of land, though it came with views of San Francisco and the East Bay stretching all the way to Mount Diablo, was a cold and uninviting place that got swallowed by thick fog on a daily basis. It had but one hidden entrance, at the end of a narrow lane, encased on all sides by dense rows of trees and tangled blackberry vines. Still, Sutro decided that this isolated southern crest of Mount Sutro would be the perfect place to build his dream home. A mansion that, 40 years later, more closely resembled something out of a nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881990']Sutro’s mansion, dubbed La Avanzada, cost $250,000 to build (about $5.4 million in 2022 money) and was designed by English architect \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_G._Stoner\">Harold G. Stoner\u003c/a>. It had three stories, 15 rooms, a footprint of 15,000 square feet, and several turrets. It had unusual features like big stone lions at its entrance, a door completely covered with animal hide, and wall sconces that could accommodate torches. Each room was decorated elaborately with wood panels, stained glass and spider-web motifs. One room even resembled a Swiss chalet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutro lived in the mansion with his mother for 18 years, but when they left, they did so in a hurry. In August 1948, Sutro sold his home for less than half of what he had spent on building it. The buyer? A brand-new television station, KGO-TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 795px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13919697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp26.1405.jpg\" alt=\"An old mansion with turrets and multiple levels sits incongruously with a giant communications tower emerging from directly behind it.\" width=\"795\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp26.1405.jpg 795w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp26.1405-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp26.1405-768x966.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When KGO-TV moved into the mansion, it was responsible for putting up the first tower and antenna on Mount Sutro. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp26.1405)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KGO Radio had long operated out of 420 Taylor St. in downtown San Francisco, but those studios were not equipped to accommodate a TV station. KGO’s chief engineer A. E. “Shorty” Evans scouted suitable locations and landed on the Sutro mansion as the perfect place to build out a studio. (In 1949, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> called it “the finest site in the Bay Area for the purpose.”) A director of engineering for Channel 7 named Harry Jacobs was brought in to build a 500-foot transmission tower for KGO-TV. It took a year to construct and had a range of 60 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KGO agreed to terms in its real estate contract that forbade the company from altering the mansion’s exterior or cutting down trees on the property’s five acres, unless it was absolutely necessary. The TV station even agreed to have no more than 25 people on the land at any given time. In the channel’s earliest days, that was doable — it broadcast for only 12 hours per week. (Within a year, that amount had increased to 35 hours.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the house, the former library acted as a rehearsal studio. The mansion’s ballroom hosted variety shows. Its great hall was used as an “auxiliary studio for live telecasts.” The lounges were remodeled for office use, and the bedrooms were locked up altogether. It didn’t take long for Sutro’s former house to get a creepy reputation. KGO-TV staff members nicknamed it “the haunted mansion” and complained about working in such strange environs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 1977 \u003cem>Berkeley Gazette\u003c/em> column, a former employee named George Tashman recalled:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I did some telecasting for KGO-TV at the time, and driving up the curving, tortuous road to the mansion — which resembled nothing so much as Castle Dracula — was a dreadful job. But coming out after a broadcast, and finding the entire road socked in by fog made driving down a two-man operation: one to drive and one to stand next to the left fender and walk on the white line for guidance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Still, local people and media held a fascination with the mansion. “Imagination could have a splendid time making [the house] an eerie background for thrills and excitement,” the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em> reported in 1969. “Especially on a dark night with the wind whipping the tall eucalyptus trees and the fog curling up the hill to blot out the lights below.” The newspaper described the property as “brooding and baffling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KGO-TV endured only four years — between 1949 and 1953 — of filming and broadcasting in the mansion. At that time, the studios temporarily moved to Taylor Street, before arriving in 1954 at their new headquarters at 277 Golden Gate Ave. Only KGO-TV’s trusty engineers remained behind at the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13919698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp14.4746.jpg\" alt=\"The KGO-TV mansion, as viewed from beneath, with a TV truck parked outside, and giant transmission tower stretching up into the sky.\" width=\"788\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp14.4746.jpg 788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp14.4746-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp14.4746-768x975.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The KGO-TV mansion, as viewed from beneath, with a ramshackle TV truck parked outside, and giant transmission tower thrusting up into the sky. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp14.4746)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the end of the ’60s, the city had decided the mysterious old mansion had to go. Arguments, hearings and legal battles about how and where to build a better transmitter and higher tower for the Bay Area’s television stations had been dragging on since 1956. The Federal Aviation Agency objected to Mount San Bruno as a location because of its close proximity to the airport, so Mount Sutro became the chosen place. The new $4 million tower was intended to eliminate the frequency with which Bay Area television viewers needed to adjust their TV antennas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13917340']In 1969, ground was broken for the construction of the Sutro Tower as we know it today. Adolph G. Sutro’s once protected home was deemed a fire hazard, eyesore and vandal attraction — by then, the windows were regularly broken by thrill seekers and had long been boarded up. The now-dilapidated mansion was unceremoniously demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, except for the two lions that once greeted visitors at the front of Adolph G. Sutro’s house — which originally come from his grandfather’s Virginia City home. As the mansion was destroyed, the lions were gifted to San Francisco Parks and Recreation and moved to Meadow Park at Fort Mason. It’s unclear now where they ultimately ended up. (The lion currently at Sutro Heights Park came from the original Sutro mansion that overlooked Sutro Baths.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, all that remains of the mansion is a set of stone stairs that sits within a restricted area underneath Sutro Tower. KQED Network Systems Engineer Michael Kadel had to brave steep slopes and a group of beehives to get the photo below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/2022-10-18-07.08.57-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"An old set of stone stairs hidden under leaves and overgrowth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mansion’s old front steps as they look today. \u003ccite>(Michael Kadel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883118']As construction neared its end, the new Sutro Tower — with its 3.5 million pounds of steel, anchored by 15 million pounds of cement — was considered by neighbors to be far uglier than the mansion ever had been. In 1972, just months away from the tower’s completion, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> called it an “ungainly, ugly, iron atrocity” — a far cry from how the structure is viewed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Adolph G. Sutro? After selling his mansion to KGO-TV, he resided in San Luis Rey near San Diego until his mother’s death in 1961. At that point, he moved to the Portuguese island of Madeira where he died in 1981. According to newspaper reports, he also owned a mysterious mansion there, though no trace of it can be found today — a fate that befell so many of his family’s homes.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Adolph Sutro’s grandson owned a mansion in Twin Peaks until he sold to KGO in 1948. Twenty years later, it was gone.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006257,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1274},"headData":{"title":"A ‘Haunted Mansion’ Once Stood Directly Under Sutro Tower | KQED","description":"Adolph Sutro’s grandson owned a mansion in Twin Peaks until he sold to KGO in 1948. Twenty years later, it was gone.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/46b06dde-7a2e-4ac0-86ab-af5001371fe9/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13919589/haunted-mansion-sutro-tower-kgo-television","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1930, Adolph Gilbert Sutro decided to build a mansion on land that had been in his family since his more famous grandfather purchased it in the 1870s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plot of land, though it came with views of San Francisco and the East Bay stretching all the way to Mount Diablo, was a cold and uninviting place that got swallowed by thick fog on a daily basis. It had but one hidden entrance, at the end of a narrow lane, encased on all sides by dense rows of trees and tangled blackberry vines. Still, Sutro decided that this isolated southern crest of Mount Sutro would be the perfect place to build his dream home. A mansion that, 40 years later, more closely resembled something out of a nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13881990","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sutro’s mansion, dubbed La Avanzada, cost $250,000 to build (about $5.4 million in 2022 money) and was designed by English architect \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_G._Stoner\">Harold G. Stoner\u003c/a>. It had three stories, 15 rooms, a footprint of 15,000 square feet, and several turrets. It had unusual features like big stone lions at its entrance, a door completely covered with animal hide, and wall sconces that could accommodate torches. Each room was decorated elaborately with wood panels, stained glass and spider-web motifs. One room even resembled a Swiss chalet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutro lived in the mansion with his mother for 18 years, but when they left, they did so in a hurry. In August 1948, Sutro sold his home for less than half of what he had spent on building it. The buyer? A brand-new television station, KGO-TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 795px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13919697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp26.1405.jpg\" alt=\"An old mansion with turrets and multiple levels sits incongruously with a giant communications tower emerging from directly behind it.\" width=\"795\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp26.1405.jpg 795w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp26.1405-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp26.1405-768x966.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When KGO-TV moved into the mansion, it was responsible for putting up the first tower and antenna on Mount Sutro. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp26.1405)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KGO Radio had long operated out of 420 Taylor St. in downtown San Francisco, but those studios were not equipped to accommodate a TV station. KGO’s chief engineer A. E. “Shorty” Evans scouted suitable locations and landed on the Sutro mansion as the perfect place to build out a studio. (In 1949, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> called it “the finest site in the Bay Area for the purpose.”) A director of engineering for Channel 7 named Harry Jacobs was brought in to build a 500-foot transmission tower for KGO-TV. It took a year to construct and had a range of 60 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KGO agreed to terms in its real estate contract that forbade the company from altering the mansion’s exterior or cutting down trees on the property’s five acres, unless it was absolutely necessary. The TV station even agreed to have no more than 25 people on the land at any given time. In the channel’s earliest days, that was doable — it broadcast for only 12 hours per week. (Within a year, that amount had increased to 35 hours.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the house, the former library acted as a rehearsal studio. The mansion’s ballroom hosted variety shows. Its great hall was used as an “auxiliary studio for live telecasts.” The lounges were remodeled for office use, and the bedrooms were locked up altogether. It didn’t take long for Sutro’s former house to get a creepy reputation. KGO-TV staff members nicknamed it “the haunted mansion” and complained about working in such strange environs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 1977 \u003cem>Berkeley Gazette\u003c/em> column, a former employee named George Tashman recalled:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I did some telecasting for KGO-TV at the time, and driving up the curving, tortuous road to the mansion — which resembled nothing so much as Castle Dracula — was a dreadful job. But coming out after a broadcast, and finding the entire road socked in by fog made driving down a two-man operation: one to drive and one to stand next to the left fender and walk on the white line for guidance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Still, local people and media held a fascination with the mansion. “Imagination could have a splendid time making [the house] an eerie background for thrills and excitement,” the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em> reported in 1969. “Especially on a dark night with the wind whipping the tall eucalyptus trees and the fog curling up the hill to blot out the lights below.” The newspaper described the property as “brooding and baffling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KGO-TV endured only four years — between 1949 and 1953 — of filming and broadcasting in the mansion. At that time, the studios temporarily moved to Taylor Street, before arriving in 1954 at their new headquarters at 277 Golden Gate Ave. Only KGO-TV’s trusty engineers remained behind at the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13919698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp14.4746.jpg\" alt=\"The KGO-TV mansion, as viewed from beneath, with a TV truck parked outside, and giant transmission tower stretching up into the sky.\" width=\"788\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp14.4746.jpg 788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp14.4746-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/opensfhistory_wnp14.4746-768x975.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The KGO-TV mansion, as viewed from beneath, with a ramshackle TV truck parked outside, and giant transmission tower thrusting up into the sky. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp14.4746)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the end of the ’60s, the city had decided the mysterious old mansion had to go. Arguments, hearings and legal battles about how and where to build a better transmitter and higher tower for the Bay Area’s television stations had been dragging on since 1956. The Federal Aviation Agency objected to Mount San Bruno as a location because of its close proximity to the airport, so Mount Sutro became the chosen place. The new $4 million tower was intended to eliminate the frequency with which Bay Area television viewers needed to adjust their TV antennas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13917340","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 1969, ground was broken for the construction of the Sutro Tower as we know it today. Adolph G. Sutro’s once protected home was deemed a fire hazard, eyesore and vandal attraction — by then, the windows were regularly broken by thrill seekers and had long been boarded up. The now-dilapidated mansion was unceremoniously demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, except for the two lions that once greeted visitors at the front of Adolph G. Sutro’s house — which originally come from his grandfather’s Virginia City home. As the mansion was destroyed, the lions were gifted to San Francisco Parks and Recreation and moved to Meadow Park at Fort Mason. It’s unclear now where they ultimately ended up. (The lion currently at Sutro Heights Park came from the original Sutro mansion that overlooked Sutro Baths.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, all that remains of the mansion is a set of stone stairs that sits within a restricted area underneath Sutro Tower. KQED Network Systems Engineer Michael Kadel had to brave steep slopes and a group of beehives to get the photo below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/2022-10-18-07.08.57-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"An old set of stone stairs hidden under leaves and overgrowth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mansion’s old front steps as they look today. \u003ccite>(Michael Kadel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13883118","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As construction neared its end, the new Sutro Tower — with its 3.5 million pounds of steel, anchored by 15 million pounds of cement — was considered by neighbors to be far uglier than the mansion ever had been. In 1972, just months away from the tower’s completion, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> called it an “ungainly, ugly, iron atrocity” — a far cry from how the structure is viewed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Adolph G. Sutro? After selling his mansion to KGO-TV, he resided in San Luis Rey near San Diego until his mother’s death in 1961. At that point, he moved to the Portuguese island of Madeira where he died in 1981. According to newspaper reports, he also owned a mysterious mansion there, though no trace of it can be found today — a fate that befell so many of his family’s homes.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13919589/haunted-mansion-sutro-tower-kgo-television","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_6660","arts_14353","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_15375"],"featImg":"arts_13919696","label":"arts"},"arts_13917340":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13917340","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13917340","score":null,"sort":[1660591370000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hidden-old-tombstones-guide-san-francisco-history","title":"Beyond the Grave: How Old Tombstones Became Part of the Fabric of San Francisco","publishDate":1660591370,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Beyond the Grave: How Old Tombstones Became Part of the Fabric of San Francisco | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>At first glance, San Francisco is strangely devoid of gravestones. It’s been illegal to bury new bodies in the city for over 120 years. And, as most Bay Area residents already know, the city was emptied of the vast majority of its dead back in the 1930s, when bodies were moved en masse to Colma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six thousand occupants of the Odd Fellows Cemetery—today’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/1000/Rossi-Playground-Picnic-Area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rossi Park\u003c/a> and surrounding areas—ended up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenlawnmemorialpark.com/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenlawn Memorial Park\u003c/a>, for example. Those bodies are now buried in a part of the Colma cemetery not open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in black Victorian mourning dress gazes down upon a graveyard full of marble monuments and gravestones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208-800x502.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208-768x482.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Odd Fellows Cemetery as it was in the 1900s. The Columbarium on the right of the shot is the only thing that remains today. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp15.208)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917412\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426-800x636.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426-768x611.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers in the process of converting Odd Fellows Cemetery into Rossi Playground in December 1933. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp14.2426)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While almost all of San Francisco’s dead were moved to Colma, many of their headstones and mausoleums remained in the city. That’s because even when relatives of the deceased were successfully contacted, they frequently couldn’t afford to have grave markers moved. (The mass eviction happened during the Great Depression, after all.) The thousands of gravestones left behind were inherited by the Department of Public Works, who started using them in city infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the north and west sides of San Francisco are still awash with tombstones. They ended up on that side of the city in large part because of where San Francisco’s four largest burial plots were originally located. The Laurel Hill, Masonic, Odd Fellows and Calvary cemeteries once dominated the area around Geary and Masonic. (Laurel Hill Cemetery alone covered 54 acres.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where you can still find glimpses of what’s left of the grave markers in our midst.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ocean Beach / The Great Highway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small dog hangs out on part of an old mausoleum, half submerged in sand. The former burial chamber showed up at the intersection of Rivera St. and the Great Highway in 2012. \u003ccite>(Megan Farmer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the 35,000 bodies in Laurel Hill Cemetery were exhumed and removed, their once distinguished burial monuments were smashed up into more manageable slabs and transported to the beach. Some of the largest pieces were then piled up into fortifying, erosion-reducing diagonal walls along Ocean Beach. Some of the gravestones were also used as bedding in the Great Highway—the road the new walls were intended to protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entirely intact headstones with perfectly legible epitaphs have since been uncovered at sporadic intervals on the shoreline. In 1977, \u003cem>The Chronicle\u003c/em> talked to beachgoers who were stunned to find headstones in the sand. In 2012, grave markers from 1876 and 1890 showed up on the beach within weeks of each other. Brace yourself after inclement weather, then—there’s undoubtedly more where these came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Buena Vista Park’s Gutters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917441\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(R, L) Pieces of headstones in Buena Vista Park’s rain gutters, (C) How the gutters look from the path. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While many of the Ocean Beach tombstones stayed intact, the marble ones that made it to Buena Vista Park were smashed up into small fragments and used to line rain gutters. Tantalizing small portions of names and dates are still visible in places, though the vast majority of the stones were positioned with their epitaphs facing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883118']While Buena Vista is the oldest park in San Francisco (it was established in 1867), the gravestone gutters were a direct result of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s solution to the Great Depression in 1935. Roosevelt introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/works-progress-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Works Progress Administration\u003c/a> to improve and beautify public spaces while also providing millions of people with jobs—8.3 million people over eight years, in fact. It was some of those WPA workers who constructed the gutters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To visit the former headstones, enter near the playground at Waller. The gutters run directly opposite and can be followed from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Aquatic Park’s Sea Wall\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remnants of gravestones and pieces of tombs seen next to Aquatic Park’s seawall during low tide. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The WPA was responsible for more than just city maintenance in the 1930s. Workers also constructed schools, hospitals and recreation areas. Aquatic Park’s sea wall—to the left of the beach and on the walk towards the long, curved pier that helps keeps the waters calm—was one of these projects. And it utilized unclaimed gravestones from Odd Fellows Cemetery in order to save money on construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At low tide, the tombstones at Aquatic Park are remarkably visible once you start actively looking for them. What’s left of the rectangular gravestones stands out starkly against the Bay’s natural detritus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Wave Organ\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Details of the Wave Organ clearly show large segments of old mausoleums and tombs. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Behind St. Francis Yacht Club, at the end of a jetty, a strange sculpture stands, amplifying the sounds of the waves below. \u003cem>The Wave Organ\u003c/em> was designed by artist Peter Richards in 1986, constructed by sculptor and stone mason George Gonzales, and sponsored by the Exploratorium. (Both men had previously been artists-in-residence at the museum.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organ is made from cement tubes, 25 PVC organ pipes, found bricks and, yes, large chunks of abandoned turn-of-the-century crypts and mausoleums. Roman numerals are still visible in several parts of \u003cem>The Wave Organ\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917455\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inscriptions of old roman numerals on the Wave Organ. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The walk along the jetty up to the sculpture is also littered with old graveyard remnants. Parts of gravestones and unusual corners of crypts and tombs are clearly visible on either side of the path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large pieces of old grave monuments are dotted along either side of the jetty approaching the Wave Organ. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fact that there were still so many of these cemetery relics available in the 1980s to construct \u003cem>The Wave Organ\u003c/em> demonstrates just how much was left behind in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Marina District’s Yacht Harbor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-800x591.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-800x591.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-1020x753.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-160x118.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-768x567.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-1536x1134.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM.png 1734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The white portions of the wall at the Marina’s yacht club are likely made up of old gravestones. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In November 1934, piles of discarded gravestones arrived in the Marina District and construction crews began turning them into a sea wall for the yacht harbor. Photos from the time show workers organizing small uniform rectangles of white slabs. The white stones in the harbor wall still stand out next to the bricks and darker stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894837']Not all of the abandoned gravestones in San Francisco found themselves utilized in such a fashion. Over the years, random tombstones have been uncovered in a variety of unexpected places. In July 1977, a group of Miraloma Park children called the police after they found a collection of turn-of-the-century headstones while playing on Mount Davidson. In 1998, a rototiller working at Turk and Arguello hit the gravestone of a saloon owner named Pierre Giraud who had died in 1878, aged 39. And in 2017, electricians working on an Iris Avenue home in Laurel Heights found a 155-year-old headstone etched with the names of an entire family, including an infant son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though few graves remain in the city—the Columbarium and cemeteries at the Presidio and Mission Dolores are all that’s left—the memories of the evicted dead are harder to scrub from the city. Their memorials, after all, make up the very fabric of it.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When San Francisco’s dead were moved to Colma, their gravestones stayed put. Here’s where to find them today.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006489,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1282},"headData":{"title":"A Guide to Finding Hidden Tombstones in San Francisco | KQED","description":"When San Francisco’s dead were moved to Colma, their gravestones stayed put. Here’s where to find them today.","ogTitle":"Beyond the Grave: How Old Tombstones Became Part of the Fabric of San Francisco","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Beyond the Grave: How Old Tombstones Became Part of the Fabric of San Francisco","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"A Guide to Finding Hidden Tombstones in San Francisco %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/9449c6a8-4357-462d-9f3b-af00014a369f/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13917340/hidden-old-tombstones-guide-san-francisco-history","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At first glance, San Francisco is strangely devoid of gravestones. It’s been illegal to bury new bodies in the city for over 120 years. And, as most Bay Area residents already know, the city was emptied of the vast majority of its dead back in the 1930s, when bodies were moved en masse to Colma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six thousand occupants of the Odd Fellows Cemetery—today’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/1000/Rossi-Playground-Picnic-Area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rossi Park\u003c/a> and surrounding areas—ended up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenlawnmemorialpark.com/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenlawn Memorial Park\u003c/a>, for example. Those bodies are now buried in a part of the Colma cemetery not open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in black Victorian mourning dress gazes down upon a graveyard full of marble monuments and gravestones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208-800x502.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208-768x482.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp15.208.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Odd Fellows Cemetery as it was in the 1900s. The Columbarium on the right of the shot is the only thing that remains today. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp15.208)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917412\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426-800x636.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426-768x611.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/opensfhistory_wnp14.2426.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers in the process of converting Odd Fellows Cemetery into Rossi Playground in December 1933. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp14.2426)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While almost all of San Francisco’s dead were moved to Colma, many of their headstones and mausoleums remained in the city. That’s because even when relatives of the deceased were successfully contacted, they frequently couldn’t afford to have grave markers moved. (The mass eviction happened during the Great Depression, after all.) The thousands of gravestones left behind were inherited by the Department of Public Works, who started using them in city infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the north and west sides of San Francisco are still awash with tombstones. They ended up on that side of the city in large part because of where San Francisco’s four largest burial plots were originally located. The Laurel Hill, Masonic, Odd Fellows and Calvary cemeteries once dominated the area around Geary and Masonic. (Laurel Hill Cemetery alone covered 54 acres.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where you can still find glimpses of what’s left of the grave markers in our midst.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ocean Beach / The Great Highway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1298760629-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small dog hangs out on part of an old mausoleum, half submerged in sand. The former burial chamber showed up at the intersection of Rivera St. and the Great Highway in 2012. \u003ccite>(Megan Farmer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the 35,000 bodies in Laurel Hill Cemetery were exhumed and removed, their once distinguished burial monuments were smashed up into more manageable slabs and transported to the beach. Some of the largest pieces were then piled up into fortifying, erosion-reducing diagonal walls along Ocean Beach. Some of the gravestones were also used as bedding in the Great Highway—the road the new walls were intended to protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entirely intact headstones with perfectly legible epitaphs have since been uncovered at sporadic intervals on the shoreline. In 1977, \u003cem>The Chronicle\u003c/em> talked to beachgoers who were stunned to find headstones in the sand. In 2012, grave markers from 1876 and 1890 showed up on the beach within weeks of each other. Brace yourself after inclement weather, then—there’s undoubtedly more where these came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Buena Vista Park’s Gutters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917441\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/buena-vista-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(R, L) Pieces of headstones in Buena Vista Park’s rain gutters, (C) How the gutters look from the path. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While many of the Ocean Beach tombstones stayed intact, the marble ones that made it to Buena Vista Park were smashed up into small fragments and used to line rain gutters. Tantalizing small portions of names and dates are still visible in places, though the vast majority of the stones were positioned with their epitaphs facing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13883118","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While Buena Vista is the oldest park in San Francisco (it was established in 1867), the gravestone gutters were a direct result of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s solution to the Great Depression in 1935. Roosevelt introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/works-progress-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Works Progress Administration\u003c/a> to improve and beautify public spaces while also providing millions of people with jobs—8.3 million people over eight years, in fact. It was some of those WPA workers who constructed the gutters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To visit the former headstones, enter near the playground at Waller. The gutters run directly opposite and can be followed from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Aquatic Park’s Sea Wall\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/aquatic-park-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remnants of gravestones and pieces of tombs seen next to Aquatic Park’s seawall during low tide. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The WPA was responsible for more than just city maintenance in the 1930s. Workers also constructed schools, hospitals and recreation areas. Aquatic Park’s sea wall—to the left of the beach and on the walk towards the long, curved pier that helps keeps the waters calm—was one of these projects. And it utilized unclaimed gravestones from Odd Fellows Cemetery in order to save money on construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At low tide, the tombstones at Aquatic Park are remarkably visible once you start actively looking for them. What’s left of the rectangular gravestones stands out starkly against the Bay’s natural detritus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Wave Organ\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Details of the Wave Organ clearly show large segments of old mausoleums and tombs. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Behind St. Francis Yacht Club, at the end of a jetty, a strange sculpture stands, amplifying the sounds of the waves below. \u003cem>The Wave Organ\u003c/em> was designed by artist Peter Richards in 1986, constructed by sculptor and stone mason George Gonzales, and sponsored by the Exploratorium. (Both men had previously been artists-in-residence at the museum.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organ is made from cement tubes, 25 PVC organ pipes, found bricks and, yes, large chunks of abandoned turn-of-the-century crypts and mausoleums. Roman numerals are still visible in several parts of \u003cem>The Wave Organ\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917455\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-numerals-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inscriptions of old roman numerals on the Wave Organ. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The walk along the jetty up to the sculpture is also littered with old graveyard remnants. Parts of gravestones and unusual corners of crypts and tombs are clearly visible on either side of the path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/wave-organ-approach-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large pieces of old grave monuments are dotted along either side of the jetty approaching the Wave Organ. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fact that there were still so many of these cemetery relics available in the 1980s to construct \u003cem>The Wave Organ\u003c/em> demonstrates just how much was left behind in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Marina District’s Yacht Harbor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-800x591.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-800x591.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-1020x753.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-160x118.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-768x567.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM-1536x1134.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-10.30.24-AM.png 1734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The white portions of the wall at the Marina’s yacht club are likely made up of old gravestones. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In November 1934, piles of discarded gravestones arrived in the Marina District and construction crews began turning them into a sea wall for the yacht harbor. Photos from the time show workers organizing small uniform rectangles of white slabs. The white stones in the harbor wall still stand out next to the bricks and darker stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13894837","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Not all of the abandoned gravestones in San Francisco found themselves utilized in such a fashion. Over the years, random tombstones have been uncovered in a variety of unexpected places. In July 1977, a group of Miraloma Park children called the police after they found a collection of turn-of-the-century headstones while playing on Mount Davidson. In 1998, a rototiller working at Turk and Arguello hit the gravestone of a saloon owner named Pierre Giraud who had died in 1878, aged 39. And in 2017, electricians working on an Iris Avenue home in Laurel Heights found a 155-year-old headstone etched with the names of an entire family, including an infant son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though few graves remain in the city—the Columbarium and cemeteries at the Presidio and Mission Dolores are all that’s left—the memories of the evicted dead are harder to scrub from the city. Their memorials, after all, make up the very fabric of it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13917340/hidden-old-tombstones-guide-san-francisco-history","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_6660","arts_14353","arts_10342","arts_1146"],"featImg":"arts_13917388","label":"arts"},"arts_13906656":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13906656","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13906656","score":null,"sort":[1638828795000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-bay-area-mans-1953-prophecy-predicted-smartphones-video-calls-and-apple-watches","title":"A Bay Area Man’s 1953 ‘Prophecy’ Predicted Smartphones, Video Calls and Apple Watches","publishDate":1638828795,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Bay Area Man’s 1953 ‘Prophecy’ Predicted Smartphones, Video Calls and Apple Watches | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>When people want to know who first predicted the age of the smartphone, a few names regularly pop up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.geekwire.com/2015/nikola-tesla-predicted-smartphones-in-1926-like-a-boss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikola Tesla\u003c/a>, who in 1926 foretold that, “through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face-to-face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles. And the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883118']Then there’s sci-fi author Isaac Asimov, who’s remembered for his \u003ca href=\"https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1964 op-ed\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> in which he claimed communication devices would one day enable people to “see as well as hear the person you telephone.” He also predicted that “the screen [would] be used not only to see the people you call, but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a name that almost never comes up is Mark R. Sullivan, whose astute predictions came more than a decade before Asimov’s. In the 1950s, Sullivan was acting president and director of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. He was born in Oakland in 1896, lived in San Francisco with his wife and daughter, and worked his way to the top of his company, starting as a lowly traffic clerk at age 16. He also sat on the board of directors of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstamtrust.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Trust Company\u003c/a>. As such, he was well respected and regularly asked to impart his professional wisdom at business conferences and forums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 656px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13906662\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Examiner-July-14-1950.png\" alt=\"A bald white man with a round face wearing a suit and tie appears in newsprint.\" width=\"656\" height=\"1154\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Examiner-July-14-1950.png 656w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Examiner-July-14-1950-160x281.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark R. Sullivan, telephone prophet, as seen in the ‘San Francisco Examiner’ on July 14, 1950. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was at one of these conferences in Pasadena, California on April 9, 1953, that Sullivan relayed his eerily accurate vision of the future of phones. Tacoma’s \u003cem>News Tribune\u003c/em> reported on the speech two days later in an article titled, “There’ll Be No Escape in Future From Telephones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan was quoted as saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Just what form the future telephone will take is, of course, pure speculation. Here is my prophecy: In its final development, the telephone will be carried about by the individual, perhaps as we carry a watch today. It probably will require no dial or equivalent and I think the users will be able to see each other, if they want, as they talk. Who knows but it may actually translate from one language to another?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>To put into context just how extraordinary Sullivan’s vision was for the period, three years earlier he appeared in the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> talking about the latest innovations in telephone technology. The advancement he was most proud of was a new device about the size of a small typewriter that automatically calculated how long people’s phone calls were. This eliminated the need for an operator to “record the call for accounting purposes.” The amount of column inches the \u003ci>Examiner\u003c/i> dedicated to the story is an indication this was Really Exciting Stuff in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13878154']That Sullivan was able—even while working with such rudimentary equipment—to envisage watch phones, video calls, and a system similar to today’s Google Translate, is fairly extraordinary. It speaks to his ability to see well beyond the technological constraints of his own lifetime. That he did so here in the Bay Area, more than two decades before the first Silicon Valley boom, only serves to make his foresight even more eerie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan died, aged 89, just two years after the first commercially available cell phone hit the market. Granted, the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motorola DynaTAC 8000X\u003c/a> was definitely not watch-sized and cost a whopping $3,995 in 1983 (about $11,000 today), but Sullivan might have seen this development as a step towards his long-ago vision—a sign that every one of his 1953 predictions would eventually come to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mark R. Sullivan envisioned the future of technology with eerie accuracy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007419,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":684},"headData":{"title":"A Bay Area Man’s 1953 ‘Prophecy’ Predicted Smartphones, Video Calls and Apple Watches | KQED","description":"Mark R. Sullivan envisioned the future of technology with eerie accuracy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13906656/a-bay-area-mans-1953-prophecy-predicted-smartphones-video-calls-and-apple-watches","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When people want to know who first predicted the age of the smartphone, a few names regularly pop up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.geekwire.com/2015/nikola-tesla-predicted-smartphones-in-1926-like-a-boss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikola Tesla\u003c/a>, who in 1926 foretold that, “through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face-to-face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles. And the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13883118","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then there’s sci-fi author Isaac Asimov, who’s remembered for his \u003ca href=\"https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1964 op-ed\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> in which he claimed communication devices would one day enable people to “see as well as hear the person you telephone.” He also predicted that “the screen [would] be used not only to see the people you call, but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a name that almost never comes up is Mark R. Sullivan, whose astute predictions came more than a decade before Asimov’s. In the 1950s, Sullivan was acting president and director of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. He was born in Oakland in 1896, lived in San Francisco with his wife and daughter, and worked his way to the top of his company, starting as a lowly traffic clerk at age 16. He also sat on the board of directors of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstamtrust.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Trust Company\u003c/a>. As such, he was well respected and regularly asked to impart his professional wisdom at business conferences and forums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 656px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13906662\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Examiner-July-14-1950.png\" alt=\"A bald white man with a round face wearing a suit and tie appears in newsprint.\" width=\"656\" height=\"1154\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Examiner-July-14-1950.png 656w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Examiner-July-14-1950-160x281.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark R. Sullivan, telephone prophet, as seen in the ‘San Francisco Examiner’ on July 14, 1950. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was at one of these conferences in Pasadena, California on April 9, 1953, that Sullivan relayed his eerily accurate vision of the future of phones. Tacoma’s \u003cem>News Tribune\u003c/em> reported on the speech two days later in an article titled, “There’ll Be No Escape in Future From Telephones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan was quoted as saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Just what form the future telephone will take is, of course, pure speculation. Here is my prophecy: In its final development, the telephone will be carried about by the individual, perhaps as we carry a watch today. It probably will require no dial or equivalent and I think the users will be able to see each other, if they want, as they talk. Who knows but it may actually translate from one language to another?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>To put into context just how extraordinary Sullivan’s vision was for the period, three years earlier he appeared in the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> talking about the latest innovations in telephone technology. The advancement he was most proud of was a new device about the size of a small typewriter that automatically calculated how long people’s phone calls were. This eliminated the need for an operator to “record the call for accounting purposes.” The amount of column inches the \u003ci>Examiner\u003c/i> dedicated to the story is an indication this was Really Exciting Stuff in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13878154","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That Sullivan was able—even while working with such rudimentary equipment—to envisage watch phones, video calls, and a system similar to today’s Google Translate, is fairly extraordinary. It speaks to his ability to see well beyond the technological constraints of his own lifetime. That he did so here in the Bay Area, more than two decades before the first Silicon Valley boom, only serves to make his foresight even more eerie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan died, aged 89, just two years after the first commercially available cell phone hit the market. Granted, the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motorola DynaTAC 8000X\u003c/a> was definitely not watch-sized and cost a whopping $3,995 in 1983 (about $11,000 today), but Sullivan might have seen this development as a step towards his long-ago vision—a sign that every one of his 1953 predictions would eventually come to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13906656/a-bay-area-mans-1953-prophecy-predicted-smartphones-video-calls-and-apple-watches","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_14353","arts_16203","arts_1935"],"featImg":"arts_13906663","label":"arts"},"arts_13900997":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13900997","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13900997","score":null,"sort":[1629126030000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"3-exceptionally-weird-bay-area-festivals-we-should-bring-back","title":"3 Exceptionally Weird Bay Area Festivals We Should Bring Back","publishDate":1629126030,"format":"standard","headTitle":"3 Exceptionally Weird Bay Area Festivals We Should Bring Back | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>As we all know, the Bay Area is one of those very special little corners of Earth where surreal niches don’t just survive—they often thrive. Just ask the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesisters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence\u003c/a>. Or the \u003ca href=\"https://thebolditalic.com/hanging-out-with-sf-s-naked-guys-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-10c2dd8c1f08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Naked Guys\u003c/a>. Or even \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Chu\u003c/a>, the 12 Galaxies protest dude. Our inherent love of the unusual is why we have a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_Street_Fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BDSM festival\u003c/a>. And it’s \u003cem>definitely\u003c/em> why we have a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Your_Alley_Fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second BDSM festival\u003c/a> for people who think the first BDSM festival is too mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth though, we could be doing more, because—for reasons I cannot fathom—some of the strangest festivals in Bay Area history are no longer with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without further ado, I present three festivals that we almost certainly should bring back. One of the strangest things about all of them is that they ever fell out of favor here in the first place…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Annual Humming Toadfish Festival, Sausalito\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13901207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-3.10.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Local cartoonist Phil Frank designed this promo poster for Sausalito's Annual Humming Toadfish Festival, in 1988.\" width=\"780\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-3.10.48-PM.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-3.10.48-PM-160x199.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-3.10.48-PM-768x957.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local cartoonist Phil Frank (of ‘Farley’ fame) designed this promo poster for Sausalito’s Annual Humming Toadfish Festival, in 1988. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sausalito Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 1981, houseboat residents in Sausalito began hearing a strange hum coming from the water. It came only at night, it prompted residents to check their electrical boxes for faulty wires, and it was compared by one witness to the sound of a distant air raid. “The humming is so strong,” South Dakota’s \u003cem>Argus-Leader\u003c/em> once reported, “it is able to penetrate even the steel-reinforced concrete hulls of some houseboats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speculation was rife about the source of the disturbing audio vibrations. Locals pointed fingers at Russian submarines, CIA surveillance, a secret sewage plant, unknown mechanical devices, and—of course—aliens. For a while, many people’s best guess was that it was just another example of “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hum\u003c/a>“—a throbbing noise of unknown origin heard in remote locations around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 1985, after years of disturbances, the then-director of Golden Gate Park’s Steinhart Aquarium, John McCosker, finally figured out the source of the nocturnal humming. It was the plainfish midshipman—a.k.a. porichthys notatus\u003cem>—\u003c/em>a.k.a. the humming toadfish. The noise came specifically from amorous male toadfish trying to attract mates. “It may be the mating call of the toadfish,” an unimpressed Yellow Ferry Harbor resident \u003ca href=\"http://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2019-columns/2019/3/27/the-humming-toadfish-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told \u003cem>United Press International\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “but it plays havoc with the sex lives of people living here.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13886018']Regardless, for Sausalito residents who’d spent years puzzling over the mystery, McCosker’s answer came as such a welcome relief that they decided to honor all that aquatic \u003cem>amor\u003c/em> with a festival at the Sausalito Bay Model. Attractions at the preposterous Annual Humming Toadfish festival included: attendees dressed as fish, sea monsters and fauna; a parade of hundreds of kazoo players mimicking the underwater hum; audio recordings of toadfish calls; and a “living, hands-on” display of the animals by McCosker. According to the \u003cem>Petaluma Argus-Courier\u003c/em>, the 1988 edition also included a marching band, Presbyterian church choirs, food stands, and beer from 20 California microbreweries. Plus? Each year a special attendee was crowned King of the Humming Toadfish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, I can find no existing footage of any of this nonsense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Oakland’s Wild Duck Festival, Lake Merritt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-800x628.png\" alt=\"Girls dance, while ducks fly overhead at Lake Merritt's Annual Duck Festival, New Year's Day 1923.\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-800x628.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-1020x801.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-160x126.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-768x603.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-1536x1206.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM.png 1890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outtake from ‘The Wicker Man.’ Just kidding. It’s a scene from 1923’s Annual Duck Festival, held on New Year’s Day at Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The photo, taken on the shores of Lake Merritt on New Year’s Day 1923, looks positively pagan. A circle of girls, dressed in white tights, bonnets and frilly dresses, dancing while clutching an extra long feather boa. Behind them in the lake and flying over their heads is the reason for their strange dance: scores of ducks. This was the Annual Wild Duck Festival in Oakland and—just look at that photo, man—it was pretty eccentric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13879301']Given under the direction of the Oakland Playground Department, and funded by the Oakland City Council ($460 was provided for it in 1921), the duck festival was first held in 1920. That year also marked the \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Lake_Merritt_Wild_Duck_Refuge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50th anniversary\u003c/a> of Lake Merritt’s wild duck refuge—a sanctuary first conceived by Dr. Samuel Merritt. Merritt wanted to protect both the birds and surrounding residents from hunters’ gunfire, as well as from dogs and cats, which were subsequently banned. By 1915, organized feeding of the ducks—with corn, wheat and crumbled loaves of bread—had also begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1921, an estimated 15,000 people came to greet the wild ducks on New Year’s Day. The following year, the neighborhood celebration was described by newspapers around the country as “A pageant of decorated boats on the lake, and a parade of decorated automobiles on the drives surrounding the bird sanctuary.” As the above photo illustrates, “hundreds of children from the Oakland public schools, all in costume, danced folk and outdoor dances on the lawn bordering the lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kansas newspaper the \u003cem>Phillipsburg News\u003c/em> even compared the Wild Duck Festival to “what the Tournament of Roses is to Pasadena, or Shrove Tuesday is in New Orleans.” The paper reported that “the entire city took a holiday” to go to the park. There are worse ways to get rid of a New Year’s Day hangover, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Banana Slug Festival, Guerneville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM-800x1260.png\" alt=\"A banana slug race in action, as seen in the 'Press Democrat' on Oct. 15, 1987.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM-800x1260.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM-160x252.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM-768x1209.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM.png 926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banana slug race in action, as seen in the ‘Press Democrat’ on Oct. 15, 1987. \u003ccite>('The Press Democrat')\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This outlandish celebration of Northern California banana slugs was born from the fact that—as one Monte Rio resident told the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> in 1987—”Other small towns had something to celebrate, but nothing will grow under our redwoods … except the banana slug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cue a festival that became infamous in the late ’80s for combining slug races for kids at one end, and slug tastings for grossed out grown-ups at the other. Inspired by the knowledge that Yurok indigenous people once ate the slimy yellow friends (fried, apparently), competitors in the festival’s cooking competition tried endlessly to make the dead slugs more palatable. Dishes offered up over the years included slug Wellington, slug enchiladas, slug sushi and slug focaccia bread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13892672']In some years, the festival also held a competition to find a “Super Slug”—though all the winning slug had to do was weigh more than of all the other slugs in the category. According to Tacoma, Washington’s \u003cem>News Tribune\u003c/em> newspaper, after the 1990 winner was announced, the slug was “dressed in a velveteen cape, presented on a purple pillow, and carried to theme music from \u003cem>Rocky\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slugfest became so infamous that, in 1989, the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> printed an extensive report about it. That year, the festival was picketed by protesters who were alarmed at all the slug consumption. The newspaper of record reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bearing placards that read ‘Animals Suffering For Petty Human Amusement,’ the protesters took particular offense at an advertisement in a local weekly newspaper that explained how to prepare a slug for cooking. The instructions included … feeding the slug corn meal for a week to purge it of whatever else it’s been eating and soaking it in vinegar to remove the mucous that coats its body. But what really infuriated the protesters was the assurance that live slugs thrown into boiling water ‘scream a lot less than lobsters.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Times\u003c/em> went on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Some of the protesters abandoned their principles long enough to watch the slug races, which were won by Slimer, who is owned and trained by 12-year-old Nina King. … How, Nina was asked, had she trained Slimer for the big race? ‘I played with him after school a lot,’ she said. ‘And today I just yelled ‘C’mon, C’mon.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> also acknowledged an unfortunate incident one year when one of the culinary judges was inspired to go rogue. Mid-tasting, he crossed the room, snatched one of the racing slugs off a table and ate it alive. “It’s the only time I ever saw a man turn green,” one witness reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, the Slugfest was anarchy. And while costume competitions for the slugs would probably be significantly more fun than eating them, the Banana Slug Festival is definitely something we should bring back. In 2009, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Banana-Slugs-77517356203/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Banana Slugs Facebook\u003c/a> account wrestled with the same thought, and reached a similar conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They eat the banana slugs, and that feels wrong,” the post said. “But at the same time, those slugs are being celebrated in a way, and their lives are contributing happiness to the people around them. What would Kant say?”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For your consideration: A kazoo parade, a banana slug cooking competition, and pagan dancing for ducks by Lake Merritt. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007953,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1539},"headData":{"title":"3 Exceptionally Weird Bay Area Festivals We Should Bring Back | KQED","description":"For your consideration: A kazoo parade, a banana slug cooking competition, and pagan dancing for ducks by Lake Merritt. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13900997/3-exceptionally-weird-bay-area-festivals-we-should-bring-back","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As we all know, the Bay Area is one of those very special little corners of Earth where surreal niches don’t just survive—they often thrive. Just ask the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesisters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence\u003c/a>. Or the \u003ca href=\"https://thebolditalic.com/hanging-out-with-sf-s-naked-guys-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-10c2dd8c1f08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Naked Guys\u003c/a>. Or even \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Chu\u003c/a>, the 12 Galaxies protest dude. Our inherent love of the unusual is why we have a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_Street_Fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BDSM festival\u003c/a>. And it’s \u003cem>definitely\u003c/em> why we have a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Your_Alley_Fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second BDSM festival\u003c/a> for people who think the first BDSM festival is too mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth though, we could be doing more, because—for reasons I cannot fathom—some of the strangest festivals in Bay Area history are no longer with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without further ado, I present three festivals that we almost certainly should bring back. One of the strangest things about all of them is that they ever fell out of favor here in the first place…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Annual Humming Toadfish Festival, Sausalito\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13901207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-3.10.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Local cartoonist Phil Frank designed this promo poster for Sausalito's Annual Humming Toadfish Festival, in 1988.\" width=\"780\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-3.10.48-PM.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-3.10.48-PM-160x199.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-3.10.48-PM-768x957.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local cartoonist Phil Frank (of ‘Farley’ fame) designed this promo poster for Sausalito’s Annual Humming Toadfish Festival, in 1988. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sausalito Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 1981, houseboat residents in Sausalito began hearing a strange hum coming from the water. It came only at night, it prompted residents to check their electrical boxes for faulty wires, and it was compared by one witness to the sound of a distant air raid. “The humming is so strong,” South Dakota’s \u003cem>Argus-Leader\u003c/em> once reported, “it is able to penetrate even the steel-reinforced concrete hulls of some houseboats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speculation was rife about the source of the disturbing audio vibrations. Locals pointed fingers at Russian submarines, CIA surveillance, a secret sewage plant, unknown mechanical devices, and—of course—aliens. For a while, many people’s best guess was that it was just another example of “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hum\u003c/a>“—a throbbing noise of unknown origin heard in remote locations around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 1985, after years of disturbances, the then-director of Golden Gate Park’s Steinhart Aquarium, John McCosker, finally figured out the source of the nocturnal humming. It was the plainfish midshipman—a.k.a. porichthys notatus\u003cem>—\u003c/em>a.k.a. the humming toadfish. The noise came specifically from amorous male toadfish trying to attract mates. “It may be the mating call of the toadfish,” an unimpressed Yellow Ferry Harbor resident \u003ca href=\"http://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2019-columns/2019/3/27/the-humming-toadfish-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told \u003cem>United Press International\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “but it plays havoc with the sex lives of people living here.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13886018","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Regardless, for Sausalito residents who’d spent years puzzling over the mystery, McCosker’s answer came as such a welcome relief that they decided to honor all that aquatic \u003cem>amor\u003c/em> with a festival at the Sausalito Bay Model. Attractions at the preposterous Annual Humming Toadfish festival included: attendees dressed as fish, sea monsters and fauna; a parade of hundreds of kazoo players mimicking the underwater hum; audio recordings of toadfish calls; and a “living, hands-on” display of the animals by McCosker. According to the \u003cem>Petaluma Argus-Courier\u003c/em>, the 1988 edition also included a marching band, Presbyterian church choirs, food stands, and beer from 20 California microbreweries. Plus? Each year a special attendee was crowned King of the Humming Toadfish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, I can find no existing footage of any of this nonsense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Oakland’s Wild Duck Festival, Lake Merritt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-800x628.png\" alt=\"Girls dance, while ducks fly overhead at Lake Merritt's Annual Duck Festival, New Year's Day 1923.\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-800x628.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-1020x801.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-160x126.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-768x603.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM-1536x1206.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-12.36.56-PM.png 1890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outtake from ‘The Wicker Man.’ Just kidding. It’s a scene from 1923’s Annual Duck Festival, held on New Year’s Day at Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The photo, taken on the shores of Lake Merritt on New Year’s Day 1923, looks positively pagan. A circle of girls, dressed in white tights, bonnets and frilly dresses, dancing while clutching an extra long feather boa. Behind them in the lake and flying over their heads is the reason for their strange dance: scores of ducks. This was the Annual Wild Duck Festival in Oakland and—just look at that photo, man—it was pretty eccentric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13879301","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Given under the direction of the Oakland Playground Department, and funded by the Oakland City Council ($460 was provided for it in 1921), the duck festival was first held in 1920. That year also marked the \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Lake_Merritt_Wild_Duck_Refuge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50th anniversary\u003c/a> of Lake Merritt’s wild duck refuge—a sanctuary first conceived by Dr. Samuel Merritt. Merritt wanted to protect both the birds and surrounding residents from hunters’ gunfire, as well as from dogs and cats, which were subsequently banned. By 1915, organized feeding of the ducks—with corn, wheat and crumbled loaves of bread—had also begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1921, an estimated 15,000 people came to greet the wild ducks on New Year’s Day. The following year, the neighborhood celebration was described by newspapers around the country as “A pageant of decorated boats on the lake, and a parade of decorated automobiles on the drives surrounding the bird sanctuary.” As the above photo illustrates, “hundreds of children from the Oakland public schools, all in costume, danced folk and outdoor dances on the lawn bordering the lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kansas newspaper the \u003cem>Phillipsburg News\u003c/em> even compared the Wild Duck Festival to “what the Tournament of Roses is to Pasadena, or Shrove Tuesday is in New Orleans.” The paper reported that “the entire city took a holiday” to go to the park. There are worse ways to get rid of a New Year’s Day hangover, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Banana Slug Festival, Guerneville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM-800x1260.png\" alt=\"A banana slug race in action, as seen in the 'Press Democrat' on Oct. 15, 1987.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM-800x1260.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM-160x252.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM-768x1209.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-12-at-11.33.16-PM.png 926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banana slug race in action, as seen in the ‘Press Democrat’ on Oct. 15, 1987. \u003ccite>('The Press Democrat')\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This outlandish celebration of Northern California banana slugs was born from the fact that—as one Monte Rio resident told the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> in 1987—”Other small towns had something to celebrate, but nothing will grow under our redwoods … except the banana slug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cue a festival that became infamous in the late ’80s for combining slug races for kids at one end, and slug tastings for grossed out grown-ups at the other. Inspired by the knowledge that Yurok indigenous people once ate the slimy yellow friends (fried, apparently), competitors in the festival’s cooking competition tried endlessly to make the dead slugs more palatable. Dishes offered up over the years included slug Wellington, slug enchiladas, slug sushi and slug focaccia bread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13892672","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In some years, the festival also held a competition to find a “Super Slug”—though all the winning slug had to do was weigh more than of all the other slugs in the category. According to Tacoma, Washington’s \u003cem>News Tribune\u003c/em> newspaper, after the 1990 winner was announced, the slug was “dressed in a velveteen cape, presented on a purple pillow, and carried to theme music from \u003cem>Rocky\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slugfest became so infamous that, in 1989, the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> printed an extensive report about it. That year, the festival was picketed by protesters who were alarmed at all the slug consumption. The newspaper of record reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bearing placards that read ‘Animals Suffering For Petty Human Amusement,’ the protesters took particular offense at an advertisement in a local weekly newspaper that explained how to prepare a slug for cooking. The instructions included … feeding the slug corn meal for a week to purge it of whatever else it’s been eating and soaking it in vinegar to remove the mucous that coats its body. But what really infuriated the protesters was the assurance that live slugs thrown into boiling water ‘scream a lot less than lobsters.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Times\u003c/em> went on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Some of the protesters abandoned their principles long enough to watch the slug races, which were won by Slimer, who is owned and trained by 12-year-old Nina King. … How, Nina was asked, had she trained Slimer for the big race? ‘I played with him after school a lot,’ she said. ‘And today I just yelled ‘C’mon, C’mon.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> also acknowledged an unfortunate incident one year when one of the culinary judges was inspired to go rogue. Mid-tasting, he crossed the room, snatched one of the racing slugs off a table and ate it alive. “It’s the only time I ever saw a man turn green,” one witness reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, the Slugfest was anarchy. And while costume competitions for the slugs would probably be significantly more fun than eating them, the Banana Slug Festival is definitely something we should bring back. In 2009, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Banana-Slugs-77517356203/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Banana Slugs Facebook\u003c/a> account wrestled with the same thought, and reached a similar conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They eat the banana slugs, and that feels wrong,” the post said. “But at the same time, those slugs are being celebrated in a way, and their lives are contributing happiness to the people around them. What would Kant say?”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13900997/3-exceptionally-weird-bay-area-festivals-we-should-bring-back","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_14353","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_1785"],"featImg":"arts_13901297","label":"arts"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? 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