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At the Casa Blanca: Mid-Century Gender-Bending Drag Shows in Glen Park

Namesake of Christopher Park Was Not "a Rabid Homophobe"

Our Local Connections with African American History

Remembering Gum Tree Girl Joan Seiwald

Eaton & Smith: 20th-Century Progress as Seen From a Glen Park Street Corner

Rising Water in and Around Glen Park is Nothing New: A Look Back

A Canvas Awaits: The Burnside Mural+ Project

Zoanne Theriault Nordstrom, 1933-2021: Her Moxie Helped Save Glen Park

Ada Frances Parker Stillings: One of Glen Park's First Civic Activists

"On a High Eminence": The History of Glen Park School

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The First Streets of Glen Park

This article was originally published in the (Hi)Stories of Our Neighborhoods column in the Spring 2016 issue of the Glen Park News. It...

Getting Downtown by Shooting the Chenery Chute

This article was originally published in the (Hi)Stories of Our Neighborhoods column in the Winter 2015 issue of the Glen Park News. It...

The Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project: Rediscovering Our Historic Legacies

This was the first article in an ongoing column, (Hi)Stories of Our Neighborhoods, in the Glen Park News dedicated to rediscovering the...

Explosive Revelation: Glen Canyon Ties to the Nobel Prize

This article was originally published in the Winter 2007/2008 edition of the Glen Park News. It is republished here with permission....

The Bucolic Byways of Glen Park: Ohlone Way, Poppy Lane, and Penny Lane

In modern terms, green lanes on busy city streets, easily identified as two-foot wide painted buffers bordered by flexible posts, provide...

The Streets of Sunnyside, Part Two: From Baden to Hamburg - A Neighborhood Built on German Beer

[This is the second in a series of articles exploring the history of the naming of the streets in the Sunnyside District in San...

The Streets of Sunnyside, Part One: Melrose, McCarthy, and the L.A. Connection

[This is the first in a series of articles exploring the history of the naming of the streets in the Sunnyside District in San...

The Namesake of Wilder Street: Hyrum Wilder of Massachusetts

[Mouse over images to see details of photo.] Along the border of Glen Park and the Fairmount Tract (also known as Fairmount Heights),...

George Ulshofer and the First Named Streets of Glen Park

Sometimes we discover new information quite by accident. It is by such a happenstance that the first streets of Glen Park have now been...

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