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Storied: San Francisco

Jun 28, 2018

One-hundred-year-old Alyce Murphy walked across the Golden Gate Bridge when it opened in 1937. She worked as a toll taker on the Bay Bridge shortly after it opened.

In this podcast, Part 2 of 2, Alyce talks about the bridges, meeting her husband, raising her family, other jobs she had, and the 1989 earthquake. She also...


Jun 26, 2018

Alyce Murphy turned 100 this May. The third-generation San Franciscan spent her early life in a tiny, crowded house behind St. Luke's Hospital with her grandmother after her mom died when she was very young. It was from that home that Alyce experienced the Great Depression and got into her fair share of mischief, as...


Jun 21, 2018

In Part 1 of Adair Lara's podcast, she talked about moving to San Francisco from her childhood home in Marin. She has lived in the same beautiful Queen Anne Victorian house, at the corner of Waller and Scott in Duboce Triangle, since 1973.

In Part 2, Adair will take us through her experience as a young writer who ended...


Jun 19, 2018

Adair Lara moved to San Francisco from her childhood home in Marin in 1973. Today, she still lives in the same Victorian house she moved into back then, a beautiful and expansive Queen Anne in Duboce Park.

In this podcast, Adair, a writer and former columnist for the Chronicle, talks about that house, the living room...


Jun 14, 2018

In Part 1 of this episode, Stephen talked about working at Nopa restaurant and how that job led to his involvement with students at Ida B. Wells High School.

In Part 2, he shares the story of helping Nopa to tell their own stories through Nopalize. The work he did getting Nopalize going provided a framework for...