Flashback Friday: The Fountain That Raised Us (and the Vaillancourt of it all)
The Vaillancourt Fountain has divided San Francisco since 1971. Part Brutalist sculpture, part childhood memory, it remains one of the waterfront’s most debated landmarks.
Flashback Friday: The Pyramid, the Punch, and a Peek into the Past
Welcome back to Flashback Friday—a series where I share some of my favorite weird, wonderful, and occasionally hidden stories from San Francisco’s past. If you’re a history nerd like me, this is your kind of news: the Transamerica Pyramid just cracked open a time capsule buried at its base since 1974. Yes, really. While the rest of us were busy with housing market headlines and AI everything, someone unearthed a literal treasure chest from San Francisco’s groovy past.
Back in the day…