The Delightful Story Behind A Thrift Store Vinyl Find
Jess Garcia loves perusing San Francisco thrift stores for treasures. One day, she came across a vinyl record titled "In Baghdad By the Bay:...
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Bay Curious
Bay Curious is a podcast about the unexplored San Francisco Bay Area. Each week we take a deep dive into the mysteries that make this area quirky, delightful and, at times, dysfunctional. It...
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Listen to Bay Curious, a Society & Culture podcast by KQED. Stream 514 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 514 episodesThe 24 Hour Job of Running Alameda's Bridges
Sarah Reid noticed a control booth attached to one of Alameda's many drawbridges, and wondered if people are inside, working the bridge. Tur...
Concord's Long Road from Navy Weapons Station to Walkable Neighborhood
Suzanne Howard was playing around with Google Maps one day and zoomed in on Concord, in the east bay. She noticed a large open space near Co...
The Most Beautiful Taco Bell in the World
The Pacifica Taco Bell, just outside of San Francisco, is legendary for its beachfront views and retro architecture. But it could never be b...
How to Make Friends in the Bay Area
It's hard these days to make a good old fashioned friend! Especially here in the Bay Area, where there are so many demands for our time and...
Real Voices From San Francisco's Great Quake of 1906
Recently uncovered and long forgotten oral histories from Black Americans who survived the 1906 Earthquake and Fire are front and center in...
The Broken Alphabet of SF's Westside Streets
On the west side of San Francisco, the streets running east-west follow a bit of a pattern. They seem to be alphabetical, starting in the mi...
Redevelopment in San Jose is Hard. Cambrian Park Plaza Shows Us Why.
Cambrian Park Plaza, a strip mall in San Jose, was once the heart of the neighborhood. Featuring a bowling alley, grocery store, post office...
George and Gracie: The Robot Voices of BART
When BART trains pull into stations, a robotic and antiquated-sounding voice announces its arrival and destination. Bay Curious listener Jim...
Overlogged and Thirsty: Bay Area Redwoods Are Struggling
Muir Woods National Monument is known for its towering redwoods because some old growth trees have been preserved there. But redwoods used t...
The Towering Cross in the Middle of San Francisco
Tucked away on a wooded hillside in the middle of San Francisco sits a big concrete cross. When it was built, it could be seen from miles ar...
The Mercury Mine That Built a Boomtown Near San Jose
Before Silicon Valley, before the Valley of Heart’s Delight, the hills south of San Jose were home to one of the world’s richest mercury min...
Unsung Heroines: Rebel Girls of the Bay Area
Women have dramatically influenced San Francisco Bay Area history since before the Gold Rush, but their stories are often far less well know...
The Bear on the California Flag
There's a pervasive story that the bear on California's state flag is modeled on a real California grizzly that was kept in captivity in San...
Secrets of Golden Gate Park
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is at the heart of city life. Created in 1870 when the land was mostly sand dunes, the park is now one of t...
The Navy Jet Generations of SF Kids Played On
One of Aaron Van Lieu's first memories is playing on a real fighter jet in San Francisco's Carl Larsen Park. Located on 19th Avenue at Vicen...
Why So Many Legal Courts in S.F.?
Longtime listener Henry Lie was driving through San Francisco one day when he realized the staggering number of legal courts located in the...
How South San Francisco Went From Industrial City to Biotech Hub
When scientists began tinkering with DNA in the 1970s, biotechnology was not welcome in leafy residential neighborhoods or many college town...
The Eccentric Personalities Behind Sunnyside Conservatory
Mary Balmana grew up in San Francisco and has driven down Monterey Boulevard near the Glen Park neighborhood hundreds of times. She often no...
The Case of the Missing Tree Frogs
Bay Curious listener Dave Ellis lives in the South Bay city of Saratoga. When he was a kid growing up there, he remembers loud tree frogs ch...
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