Why Is There A Texas Flag Outside S.F. City Hall? What is S.F.’s First Square?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Platt was checking out a flag display outside San Francisco's city hall when he noticed the flag from his home state, Texas, was among them. What gives? Plus, we take a quick dive into the history of San Francisco's oldest square — where the announcement of gold was made, and where the state's first public school house once stood. Reported by Annika Cline and Marisol Medina-Cadena. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Katie McMurran and Rob Speight. Additional support from Julie Caine, Paul Lancour, Kyana Moghadam, Suzie Racho, Ethan Lindsey and Patricia Yollin.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	Hello, Olivia Alan Price here with the Bay Curious Podcast.
0:07.0	Hello, Olivia Alan Price here with the Bay Curious Podcast.
0:12.0	Today we have two questions from two
0:14.4	different listeners on deck. One, why is there a Texas flag in front of the
0:20.3	San Francisco City Hall. And two.
0:23.2	Which town square was San Francisco's first?
0:26.2	Answers are just ahead, but first, we need to do one little thing.
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0:55.0	Our first question comes from a listener in San Francisco's South Beach neighborhood.
1:01.0	I'm Kevin Platt. I was born and raised originally in Texas, but I've lived
1:04.9	on the West Coast since 2002. One day, Kevin was walking around San Francisco,
1:09.9	checking out a display of historical flags outside City Hall.
1:14.0	I noticed, you know, all the other flags sort of made sense.
1:17.1	You had that down with the ship, you had the flag of Mexico, things like that,
1:21.0	but then I saw Texas.
1:22.4	Texas, saw Texas. Texas our Texas all hail the mighty state
1:28.2	the Texas state flag flying outside San Francisco City Hall.
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