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With some of the most scenic views in the country, the Presidio in San Francisco is also home to the Lucasfilm corporate offices.

In today's episode, architectural historian Caitlin will dive deep into how George Lucas ended up with his headquarters inside a national park.

Music Welcome to Sky Talkers.

Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.

Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.

Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin, and welcome to this week's episode where we're

talking all about the Presidio in San Francisco. And I'm really excited for this episode.

This is kind of another one of our annual preservation George Lucas crossover episodes that I really kind of dive deep into.

We did an episode on George Lucas in San Anselmo, which is the town in California where he's lived since the 70s and kind of how he's done some historic preservation things there.

And then we did an episode last year all about Modesto, which is George Lucas's hometown from

his childhood where he was born and kind of the tourism industry and the history of the

mid-20th century as it relates to George Lucas in Modesto.

And now we've arrived at the Presidio in downtown San Francisco.

Yeah, if you've listened to us for a while, we love George Lucas history and this gateway

into discovering, I guess, parts of California through George Lucas. And Caitlin, give everyone your

background. If you don't know, Caitlin is a massive Star Wars fan, but also an architectural

historian. So Caitlin works in historic preservation. So you can speak, but you have a background in

this. So if you haven't listened to one of

these before, what you'll discover in this podcast is Caitlin really journeys through land deeds,

um, old maps and other things in order to, and it sounds really boring boring but I promise it's really not because it

really adds a level of understanding of this part of George Lucas's history and who he is

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