On Friday, March 12, after a long day of bidding at the Cliff House Auction, Nicole Meldahl was finally able to take a momentary breath. Then, she was right back to work. Collecting a variety of ...
Sutro Baths bathing suits. Italian porcelain muses. A carved wooden grizzly bear. A cowboy sculpture from Playland-at-the-Beach. An oil painting of San Francisco’s wealthy 24th mayor, Adolph Sutro.
SAN FRANCISCO Generations of city dwellers and tourists have come to the western edge of San Francisco to promenade on the wide sandy beach, breathe the salt-laced air and sip something warm or strong ...
Former patrons of the Cliff House may miss evenings spent sipping cocktails, slurping oysters, and crunching calamari while watching the sun set over the Pacific. But the significance of the ...
On this day in 1896, the now-defunct Sutro Baths officially opened in San Francisco. Named for Adolph Sutro, a San Francisco mayor and millionaire who designed Sutro Heights and the Cliff House, the ...
When Nicole Meldahl and her group Western Neighborhoods Project raised money to buy up and save historic artifacts from the recently-closed Cliff House restaurant in March 2021, she had no idea at the ...
The Lands End parking lot isn’t exactly the reason people flock to the scenic, windswept emblem of San Francisco. It’s just a parking lot, after all: a place to drop your car on the way to a ...