Three Years -- June 24, 2010

I launched this blog on 24-June-2007, after a false start on Geocities earlier that month. 684 entries later, I can say I've met many nice people and learned some interesting things.

I took the opportunity to review the topics I have covered so far. I see some personal interests that I have missed and will have to be sure to cover in the next year. I'm not sure the counts below are correct.

09/11 3

1906 6

Abbott and Costello 2
Abraham Lincoln 5
Admission Day 1
Advent 1
advertisement 1
AEA 1
aerial tramway 1
Alaska 13
ALCO 1
Alexander Graham Bell 2
Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1
Alice Howell 1
alley 8
Andrew Furuseth 1
Angels Flight 1
animation 1
anniversary 2
apple 2
April Fools' Day 3
Arch Hoxsey 1
architecture 1
Ardenwood 11
Arizona 3
Armistice Day 1
Art Clokey 1
Ash Wednesday 1
Automotive history 29
Avenger 1
aviation history 31

Barney Oldfield 5
barry bonds 5
BART 5
baseball 56
Batman 2
Bay to Breakers 1
Bebe Daniels 1
Benjamin Franklin 1
Benny Goodman 1
berlin wall 1
Bessie Love 1
Bill's Place 1
Billie Ritchie 1
Billy Bevan 1
Blackhawk Auto Museum 2
Bleriot 2
blimp 3
blog-a-thon 7
blogathon 8
blues 1
book 15
boxing 5
bricks 2
bridge 7
bridge unit 1
British Columbia 1
Buck O'Neil 1
Buddy Holly 1
buster keaton 1

cable cars 17
California Academy of Science 1
california historical society 4
California history 1
California poppies 1
California Tourist Guide and Handbook 1
California Western Railroad 3
calliope 4
Canada 1
Captain Future 1
Carl Nolte 1
Carroll John Daly 1
Cartoon Art Museum 2
Carville 1
cat 36
catching up 4
Catholic Schools Week 3
Charlie Chaplin 4
Chevrolet 1
Chevy 1
chinatown 4
Chinese New Year 3
Christmas 18
Christmas tree 1
Chronicle 6
Chutes 1
Cinco de Mayo 2
civil rights 1
Cliff House 6
Clover Milk 1
Colma 2
Columbus Day 3
comics 6
communism 1
Creature Features 1
cruise 11
CSRM 9
curtiss 4

DARPA Challenge 1
Dashiell Hammett 8
deer 1
Devil's Slide 2
Dimaggio 1
Disney Family Museum 1
Disney Museum 1
Disneyland 13
Doc Savage 1
Doctor P. H. Van der Weyde 35
Dodgers 2
Doris Lessing 1
Douglas Tilden 3
duck 5
Duke Ellington 1
DVD 11
DW Griffith 1

E Clampus Vitus 1
Earth Day 1
Eartha Kitt 1
earthquake 9
East Bay Terminal 2
Easter 3
Edgar Allan Poe 1
Edward Kennedy 1
El Granada 3
election 10
escapology 3

Fairbanks 2
Famous Monsters of Filmland 1
Father Damien 1
Fathers' Day 4
Felix the Cat 1
ferry 3
Ferry Building 2
Film Fun 1
fire 5
firehouse 32
fireworks 5
Flag Day 3
flying 3
fog 1
food 1
Ford 3
Forrest J Ackerman 1
Fort Bragg 1
Frank Norris 1
Fred Karno 1
Friday the 13th 2
funicular 2

G8 1
geese 1
Gelett Burgess 3
Gene Autry 1
George Washington 2
Georges Méliès 1
Gertrude Stein 1
Ghirardelli Square 1
Giants 66
Golden Gate National Recreation Area 1
Golden Gate Park 10
Good Friday 3
Good Shepherd 30
graffitti 1
Grauman's Chinese 11
Green Lama 1
Groundhog Day 1
Gumby 1

Half Moon Bay 9
Halloween 5
Harold Geissenheimer 1
Harold Lloyd 3
Harold Pinter 1
Harry Langdon 2
Harry Potter 1
Harvard 1
hats 2
Heald 1
health care reform 1
Henry Casebolt 1
herald 8
Herb Caen 1
holiday 55
Hollywood 11
Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Holy Saturday 1
homeless 1
horse car 5
horsecar 5
Houdini 2
Howard Zinn 1
Huckleberry Finn 1

Independence Day 3
Indianapolis 500 1
Ingmar Bergman 1
iPad 1
ipod 4
Italy 2

Jack Benny 1
Jack London 2
Jaime Escalante 1
Jasper Fforde 1
jazz 7
JD Salinger 1
Jejune Institute 3
Jerry Flamm 1
Jim Carroll 1
Jimmy Adams 1
Jimmy Parrott 1
Joan Blondell 1
Joe 4
Joe Venuti 1
Joe Zawinul 1
John Barrymore 1
John J Pershing 1
John Stephenson 1
John Updike 1
Johnny Griffin 1
Juan Marichal 1
juneau 1
jury duty 1

KCBS 2
Ketchikan 1
Key System 2
Keystone 1
KFRC 2
Kino 1
KJAZ 2
KLSI 3
KNBR 1
Knox 10
KPO 2
KSFO 1
KYA 1

Labor Day 3
Land's End 7
Lansing 1
Larry Gelbart 1
Larry Semon 1
LASSCO 1
Laurel and Hardy 1
Lawrence Halprin 1
Lefty O'Doul's 1
Lena Horne 1
Lent 2
Life on Mars 2
Lige Conley 1
Lincecum 10
Lincoln Beachey 1
Livy 1
llama 1
Lloyd Hamilton 1
Locomobile 1
locomotive 8
Lon Chaney 1
Los Angeles 1
Louise Fazenda 1
Luciano Pavarotti 1

Mabel Normand 1
macworld 1
Manufacturer and Builder Magazine 20
Marion Davies 1
Mark Twain 2
Market Street Railway 1
Marx Brothers 1
Mary Pickford 1
Max Roach 1
May Day 1
Mazzetti's Bakery 1
Memorial Day 3
Mexico 2
Michael Chabon 1
Michael Jackson 1
Michelangelo Antonioni 1
Midwinter Fair 2
mission 1
MLK 3
monorail 1
Monte Collins 1
moon landing 1
Moss Beach 1
mothers' day 3
Mount Tamalpais 1
movies 38
msr 1
muni 12
Musee Mecanique 1
music 12
mutoscope 3

National Train Day 1
Navy 3
Neal Burns 1
Negro Leagues 1
new year 6
New York to Paris Race 1
newspaper 1
Nick's 1
nitrate film 5
Norma Talmadge 1
Norman Mailer 1
Northwestern Pacific 4
Norton Buffalo 1
Nut Tree 2

Oakland 3
obsolete technology 7
Ocean Shore Railroad 10
octopus 1
Ogden Nash 1
Oliver Hardy 1
olympics 1
opera 1
oracle 6
Original Joe's 1
Orlando Cepeda 1
Oscar Peterson 1
otr 4
Otto Messmer 1

Pacific Coast Steamship Company 1
Pacifica 58
Palace Hotel 2
Palm Sunday 1
Parking Day 1
Patrick McGoohan 1
Patton 1
Pearl Harbor Day 2
Pescadero 1
pge 1
Phil Frank 1
phonoautograph 1
photography 2
photophone 1
Pier 39 1
Playland-at-the-Beach 1
podcast 1
poetry 1
Point Richmond 1
Pony Express 2
Port Costa 1
PPIE 4
Presidents' Day 2
Presidio 7
pulp 13
pumpkin 1

Q-FM 2

Race Williams 1
racing car 17
racism 3
radio 12
Railroad history 56
Ralph DePalma 1
Raoul Walsh 1
Ravenswood Winery 1
Raymond Chandler 1
Reminiscences of an Active Life 23
restaurant 10
RFK 1
Rich Aurilia 1
Rincon Hill 2
Robert Burns 1
rock'n'roll 2
Rockaway Beach 1
Rod Beck 1
Rome 1
Roof Rides 1

Sacramento 7
Sailors' Union of the Pacific 1
Saint Igantius 1
Saint Joseph's Day 2
Saint Monicas 1
Saint Patrick's Day 3
Saint Valentine's Day 3
samtrans 20
San Francisco history 120
San Francisco State University 5
San Juan Bautista 4
Santa Rosa 1
sculpture 2
seagull 1
Seals 2
See's 1
serials 2
Shadow 1
Shakespeare 1
Sherlock Holmes 2
ships 9
sidewalk art 2
signs 34
silent movies 35
Skagway 3
slapstick 12
snake 1
Snub Pollard 1
Sonoma 3
Sopwith 1
sound recording 1
South Park 2
Southern Pacific 3
Spamalot 1
Spanish-American War 1
speaking 1
Spider 1
spring 4
SPUR 2
Stan Laurel 2
stanford 4
Stanley Steamer 1
statue 16
storm 26
Sutro Baths 3
Sydney Chaplin 1

Tanforan 4
tax 1
tcm 1
tea baggers 1
telephone 2
Thanksgiving 3
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion 6
The Prisoner 1
theater 3
Theodore Roosevelt 2
Thomas Flyer 3
Thomas Jefferson 1
Thursday Next 1
Tom Lantos 1
Tracy Arm Fjord 1
train station 25
transit 46
TST 1
Turner Classic Movies 1

Union City 1
Union Square 1

vandalism 1
vaudeville 1
Vernon Alley 1
Veterans Day 3
Victor Hugo 1
Victoria 1

W. A. Coulter 5
Wachovia 1
walking tour 7
Wall of Fame 15
Walt Disney 1
Walter Rice 1
Walter Wellman 1
war 2
Watchmen 1
Wax Museum 4
WC Fields 1
wedding 3
Wells Fargo 3
Western Railway Museum 3
westerns 2
what is this 2
White Motor Car 2
White Pass and Yukon 2
why 8
Wicked 1
William Manley Vander Weyde 2
Willie Howard 1
Willie Mays 3
Willie McCovey 2
Willits 1
Wizard of Oz 2
wright 1
WWI 9
WWII 4

Yale 1
Yerba Buena Gardens 10

Ziegfeld Follies 1

A special thank you to the people who have taken the time to comment on my rambling observations.