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Outside Lands Podcast Episode 399: Richmond District WPA Playgrounds
In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration constructed a variety of projects in San Francisco that endure to this day. This week, we shake the sand out of our shoes and explore our favorite WPA-era built playgrounds in the Richmond.
Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast - Oct 3, 2020
(above) Rossi Playground, 1950s
[Recreation & Parks] View of baseball game in progress.
Richmond District historian John Freeman talks about a dusty toll road that became one of San Francisco's largest thoroughfares, Geary Boulevard. (Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast Feb 15, 2014)
Francisco Heights was a 1930s public housing project that never was. Imagine 11 buildings for 2500 residents near present-day USF. (Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast Dec 7, 2019)