Did We Put the 'Bay' In Bay Windows?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

There are so many bay windows in San Francisco, Oakland, and other cities around the Bay Area it would be easy to assume they were invented here. But were they? Listener Ayran Michaels wants to know: Why are they so prominent here? Additional Reading: Did San Francisco Put the 'Bay' in Bay Windows? Victorian Home Walk Reported by Christopher Beale. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Katie McMurran and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Paul Lancour, Kyana Moghadam, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey and Don Clyde.

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0:00.0	From K-QED. This is Bay Curious and I'm Olivia Allen Price. When I was growing up, one of my favorite
0:08.4	TV shows was...
0:12.4	You guessed it, full house. Like so many young people in the 90s I had an age
0:20.7	inappropriate crush on Uncle Jesse but what comes to mind when I think of that
0:25.3	show, it's not actually him.
0:27.3	It's the final scene in the opening credits.
0:30.4	The Tanner family is having this super charming looking picnic in Alamo Square
0:35.3	and they're right in front of the painted ladies. This row of ornate,
0:39.8	Victorian, and Edwardian homes. Each house has not one but two bay windows sticking off the front
0:47.8	Now I think for me and for a lot of people who are not from the bay area
0:52.0	This scene created an image in our minds of what
0:55.4	San Francisco looked like, and it was all Victorians and Bay Windows. A question
1:00.8	about those Bay Windows won ourOctober voting round.
1:04.0	A-R-October voting round. A-Rin Michaels wants to know why they're such an iconic architectural style here.
1:08.6	He hasn't noticed them as much in other cities.
1:11.5	Today, we're answering A-Rin's question and shedding some light on the origins of the bay window. Stay with us.
1:20.4	Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still family owned, operated, and argued over.
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1:34.0	Visit Sierra Nevada.com to find your new favorite beer today.
1:40.0	All right, so big windows are not only all over San Francisco, but you also find them all over
1:45.5	Oakland and many other Bay Area towns. But how do they end up here? And why?
1:51.4	Reporter Christopher Beal ventured outside to find out.
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