Department of Building Inspection Brown Bag Lunch Series
Thursday, February 18, 2010
1660 Mission Street, Room 2001, Noon to 1:30 PM
Carville-by-the-Sea: San Francisco's Streetcar Suburb
an Illustrated Lecture by Woody LaBounty.
Woody LaBounty, author of the new book, Carville-by-the-Sea: San Francisco’s Streetcar Suburb, presents one of the quirkiest and least-remembered communities in San Francisco’s history. "Carville-by-the-Sea" flowered as an 1890s beach retreat on the sand dunes south of Golden Gate Park. Prominent bohemians, judges, lady bicyclists, and sand-bath-prescribing physicians transformed old transit cars into cottages and clubhouses. Creative carpenters stacked obsolete horsecars, cable cars, and trolley cars into mansions and churches. Famous capitalists, writers, painters and journalists visited Carville to work, play, and enjoy what was touted as the “oddest village in the world."
LaBounty unearthed never-before published images and stories from personal archives and libraries to tell the tale of Carville’s heyday and its transition into today's Outer Sunset District.
Woody LaBounty is the founder of the Western Neighborhoods Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the history of western San Francisco. He has recorded hundreds of oral histories, launched one of San Francisco’s most popular history sites—www.outsidelands.org—and led a successful campaign to save four refugee cottages built after the 1906 earthquake and fire. LaBounty has written many articles on San Francisco history, is a frequent contributor to the media, and is recognized as the leading authority on the city’s western neighborhoods.
Please visit the website: http://www.outsidelands.org for information about this fascinating piece of San Francisco building history.
This Brown Bag Lunch talk will begin promptly at noon and will conclude by 1:30 PM. The lecture will be held at 1660 Mission St., San Francisco, in Room 2001, the second floor lecture room.
