In 1941, Greyhound took over Marin County commuter service from the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Their sleek new Greyhound Interurban bus terminal opened on March 1 at the southeast corner of Sansome and Sacramento streets, right next to the landmark classical Federal Reserve Bank (it's the one in the background on the left). The bus depot closed December 1, 1950, and in its place went 340-350 Sansome, a 10-story office building constructed in 1952 and home to a myriad of offices and ground-floor retail.

The Barbary Coast has a raucous history, full of saloons, brothels, and shaghaiing. The area now known as Jackson Square was comprised of places of ill-repute, with the block of Pacific between Montgomery and Kearny infamously referred to as "Terrific Street." When the Barbary Coast was essentially shutdown in 1917, the Hippodrome remained, along with it's plaster casts of, uh, very friendly nymphs and satyrs.

Back during the Gold Rush, South San Francisco didn't refer to the area near the airport in San Mateo County, but instead was an area in today's Bayview between the Bay, Islais Creek and Visitacion Valley. John J. Ford & Emil Holje opened a saloon catering to the workers who lived in the area - immigrants working at shipyards, tanneries, bakeries, butchers, and more. The old stagecoach line designated as Railroad Avenue in 1878 and renamed Third Street in 1921. Ford & Holje located their saloon at what was then Railroad and 9th Aves in South San Francisco, today Third Street and Innes Ave in the Bayview. The lot went on to be split, and is now home to a combination KFC/Taco Bell.

Gold Rush San Francisco was a dirty, dusty town, and no place personified that better than Warner's Cobweb Saloon. Literally covered with curtains of cobwebs hanging from the rafters, the saloon run by eccentric Abe Warner was filled with oddities from around the world, along with a menagerie of animals that ran free around the bar.

Start your weekend off right with a quick history on San Francisco's Acme Beer. Started as a transplant from Seattle's Olympia Brewery after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire destroyed many SF breweries, Acme was originally located at the foot of Telegraph Hill. They survived prohibition by making an Acme Light "near beer" with 0.5% alcohol, and became successful enough to require a new bottling plant by the 1940s, built on Buchanan between Fulton and Grove Streets.

Sometimes we forget to highlight the city's most famous historic sites because, well, everyone already knows about them. But that doesn't make them any less impressive. In honor of it's basilica's 100th birthday, today we're taking a look back at the city's (arguably) oldest building – the original Misión San Francisco de Asís – better known as Mission Dolores.

We didn't touch on historic whale Adolph Sutro this week since we've covered his land holdings so much in the past, but one lesser-known whale mansion was constructed by his heirs. Hint: it used to be where a very famous tower now stands.

Now that one of the most expensive houses in San Francisco is officially off the market, we thought we'd take a peek back at the history of one of the other mega listings – 3800 Washington, or optimistically referred to as "Petit Trianon."

Glen Park, the family friendly neighborhood with seemingly endless adorable little houses, seems to evoke this small-town-within-a-city vibe. Originally built up as vacation homes and known as "Little Switzerland", it wasn't until street cars reached the area and refugees from the 1906 Earthquake and Fire needed housing that it really became a thriving neighborhood.

Now home to local grocery chain Andronicos and an apartment complex, the block between Funston, 14th Ave, Lincoln Way, and Irving Street was once a Muni graveyard. Officially called the Funston Yard but known as the Boneyard, the site held over 90 derelict streetcars.

When the city was still growing, the outer avenues were sparsely developed, leaving room for block-long building sites. One particular block at 10th & Fulton was home to the "largest pleasure resort in America" - the Chutes water park.

When we featured Sydney Walton Plaza as our Park Life a few weeks ago, one commenter brought up the site's history as the city's produce market. Much of Washington Street in downtown was known as Commission Market, the city's largest wholesale produce market, until the 1960s when the site was redeveloped as the mixed-use Golden Gateway.

Known as the Outside Lands, the Sunset was a sparsely inhabited area of large sand dunes until the construction of the Twin Peaks Tunnel in 1917. Other than the infamous Carville, most of the development centered around the Inner and Central Sunset, and in 1928, the area at Vicente and 41st Ave was still mostly sand dunes. Development increased in the 1930s, and by the 1950s, the last of the sand dunes were leveled for single and multi-family homes. Today the same spot is filled with houses and apartment buildings, and any remnants of the sand dunes are contained to Ocean Beach.

Back in the day, San Francisco was full of breweries (76 to be exact). The Wieland Brewery was located on a block of 2nd Street, between Howard and Folsom, from 1856-1920, and housed all the brew tanks, bottling facilities, and offices. John Wieland, gold miner, baker and beer baron, bought the already thriving Philadelphia Brewery, eventually becoming its sole owner and renaming it Wieland, and building it into one of the most successful and largest breweries on the west coast. Wieland died in a fire in 1885, and the brewery was sold to San Francisco Breweries LTD (but continued to operate under the name Wieland Brewery), who also owned three other breweries in town.