Lost Bay Area Stories

1940's General Motors exhibit at Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco. Transparent Car with Pontiac Chassis and Body by...

1924 Photo of a Flint Automobile with Ghiradelli Square in the background.

C.W Smiths Yum-Yum treat stand during the 1930's at Playland in San Francisco

Yosemite in the 1920's

I love old movie billboards. This one was in San Francisco in 1922. Betty Compson was a rising Hollywood startlet and had early...

San Jose's Marcian Rossi was an interesting local character as I've mentioned in other posts.. He was the overseer of the family's...

Ironically, this debate a hundred years ago is the same one that we're having today. Sources: San Francisco Call, October 5, 1921

I've already posted about San Jose resident Marcian Rossi's collection of Marco Polo era maps and their noteworthiness. I've also posted...

Cultural norms and modesty were amusingly different a hundred years ago. Showing legs and ankles were a sign of avant guard fashion. ...

As I've mentioned in a previous post, Marcian Rossi's claim to fame was that he held a collection of maps from the Marco Polo era. He...

There was an Italian San Jose resident and local tailor/machineist that lived in the area 100 years ago who's lineage connected him...