Frank Dunnigan

Frank Dunnigan was born in San Francisco during the baby boom years of the 1950s to a family that first settled there in 1860. His education began in Kindergarten at Parkside School before moving on to St. Cecilia and then to St. Ignatius College Prep and the University of San Francisco. He worked as a bank auditor and as a retail training manager before joining the federal government in the 1990s.

He is a member of the California Historical Society and the San Francisco History Association. His monthly history column STREETWISE has been published by the Western Neighborhoods Project (www.outsidelands.org) since January 2009, and he has contributed both text and photo content to several local history books that have been published by other authors.

He is currently working on a second book that examines the many changes--large and small--that have come to pass in San Francisco in the new millennium.