Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast Episode 83: Dynamite Factories of the Sunset

Outside Lands Podcast Episode 83: Dynamite Factories of the Sunset

Angus Macfarlane returns to talk about the dynamite factories of San Francisco's Sunset District of the 1870s. Spoiler alert: they tended to blow up.

Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast - Aug 10, 2014

Outside Lands Podcast Episode 83: Dynamite Factories of the Sunset

Headlines on the 1872 explosion at the Hercules Powder Works.

San Francisco Chronicle, June 22, 1872.

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