by kbronson | Sep 29, 2026 | Episodes
North Beach, September 1928. There’s a walk-up playhouse on Green Street with a stage the size of a dining table and fourteen actors crammed onto it. The show is a French farce called “Easy for Zee Zee.” Opening week, it’s bombing. Beautiful...
by kbronson | Sep 24, 2026 | Episodes
Frisco in 1928 was a town with fog in its lungs and money in its pockets, and somebody had to decide who got to keep it. Frank Lanza, a quiet Sicilian who ran Fisherman’s Wharf and sold grapes to half the bathtub wineries in America, sat back and watched the...
by kbronson | Sep 10, 2026 | Episodes
In October 1893, San Francisco society was rocked by the secret marriage of millionaire Charlie Fair and Maud Nelson, a well-known madam. The couple quietly crossed the bay to Oakland intending to elope without attracting attention. Instead, their wedding became...
by kbronson | Sep 2, 2026 | Episodes
San Francisco has always looked good on film, but in The Sniper (1952) and The Lineup (1958), the city becomes something more than scenery. It becomes a character—a maze of steep streets, fog, waterfronts, alleys and lonely neighborhoods where killers can disappear...
