The History of Nudity in San Francisco Uncovered

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Whether at Baker Beach or Bay to Breakers, it’s not unusual to see public nudity in San Francisco. What are the current laws on the matter, and how did the city become known for bodies in the buff? Reported by Jessica Placzek. Bay Curious is Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Penny Nelson and Julia McEvoy. Our managing editor is Ethan Lindsey. Vice President for News is Holly Kernan. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED. I'm Olivia Alan Price. This is the Bay Curious Podcast. Each week we answer a question from the audience and today we're talking about nudity.
0:13.5	So there is some mention of body parts.
0:16.7	If that's not for you, check out one of our older episodes.
0:20.1	There's a lot of great questions to explore in our show archive.
0:23.4	Okay, let's get going.
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0:45.0	Not long ago,
0:46.0	Bicurious listener Kelly Hardesty
0:48.0	was walking along Castor Street in San Francisco with her daughter
0:52.0	when... Upwalk to completely make it... in San Francisco with her daughter when up walked a completely naked man with just white
0:56.6	tennis shoes on and my daughter looked at me and said mommy mommy he's naked and I said yeah he is.
1:05.0	Kelly didn't want to make a big deal of the situation after all it isn't exactly
1:09.8	an unusual site in the city but then then, this mailman looks at me
1:14.0	and goes, I remember when I first started my route
1:18.0	and that used to shock me too.
1:20.2	But now I just don't think anything of it.
1:23.5	And that got her wondering.
1:25.4	My question is, is it legal to be naked in San Francisco?
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