- A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to SF
![In July 1979, Stan Thornton left Western Australia for the first time, to bring a bag full of space debris to San Francisco.]()
- The killing of a nurse that shocked San Francisco
![Archival image of San Francisco in 1945, the year the Irene Mansfield case]()
- This is what San Francisco looked like exactly 100 years ago
![A busy street scene in downtown San Francisco in 1923. In the middle is Lotta's Fountain.]()
- The spite monument that's a middle finger to San Francisco
![An aerial photo of the bridge section of Market Street in San Francisco. In the upper left is Cuesta Court, where historian David Gallagher estimates the monument once stood.]()
- The first map to ever depict the SF Bay Area heading to auction
![The manuscript includes the first ever depiction of the Bay Area on a map.]()
- The bizarre duel on Angel Island that killed a state senator
![A view of Quarry Point on Angel Island on Sept. 1, 2022. A duel between US Commissioner George Pen (Pendleton) Johnston and State Senator William I. Ferguson took place at the location on August 21, 1858.]()
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![San Francisco socialite Mrs Alma de Bretteville Spreckels enjoys a cup of tea in the salon of her Washington Street mansion, circa 1960. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)]()
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![A view of the Carolands estate in Hillsborough, Calif., on Thursday, January 9, 2014.]()
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![Captain William Howard Hughes Jr. disappeared for 35 years.]()
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![Morrell's airship sinks and crashes over Berkeley on May 23, 1908. If you look closely, you can see the crew member on the top of the balloon. The photo is from the collection of William R. Stein of The Jive Bomber.]()
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![Workers stand on the Golden Gate Bridge during its construction in October 1935.]()
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![Broken glass door at the Department of City Planning after the White Night in San Francisco on May 21, 1979.]()
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![A view of the hills of Suisun Valley in the summertime.]()
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![Portrait of the Grateful Dead in Copenhagen. Denmark, April 1972.]()
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![Spy Emerson (front) with her mate Lucky Anderson (left in safari hat) from Oakland throw socks on the steps of the Pacific Stock exchange during the 35th annual St. Stupid's Day parade in San Francisco, California, on Monday, April 1, 2013.]()
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![Lombard Street, San Francisco.]()
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![A historic cable car glides past the Beacon Grand Hotel, formerly the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, Calif.]()
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![Gloria Sykes sued the city of San Francisco in 1970 over an injury she incurred while riding a cable car.]()
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![Lew Hing (left) with his family.]()
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![A 1960s advertisement for Bay Area pyramid scheme Holiday Magic. ("Holiday Magic - 1967" (c) 2008 rchappo2002 via CC BY-NC 2.0)]()
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![A portrait of James Hiram Bedford, the first man to be cryogenically frozen.]()
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![A colorized image of the Mechanical Arts Building at the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Photo courtesy of OpenSFHistory.]()
