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Golden Gate Heights
Golden Gate Heights - 15th Avenue at Noriega Street - steam shovel grading for wall May 10, 1927. Permission: SF Public Library Historical Photograph Collection.
Westwood Park
Westwood
Park Grocery Company’s building under construction (not before 1917). Anyone
knowing the address or date of this building please contact editor@westsideobserver.com.
Photo: Gabriel Moulin, Permission: Moulin Studios. 1460 Grand Ave, San Rafael,
94901 and the SF Public Library Historical Photograph Collection.
Photo courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Pine Lake Park
Houses in the
Pine Lake Park District, Aug. 27, 1927
Photo courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Note the motercycle in the center.
West Portal
West Portal
Photo courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Written underneath: “Home Building following completion of Twin Peaks tunnel.”
Gold Mine Hill and the surrounding area in
the Diamond Heights district, June 26,1953
Notes Newscopy: “THE VACANT HEIGHTS—Big,
empty hill in center of this picture is Gold Mine Hill, one of three vacant
heights on which Redevelopment Agency proposes to build 2300 dwellings.
In foreground is Miraloma Park, just beyond that is O'Shaughnessy-blvd and
dropping off from the boulevard is Glen Canyon, part of Diamond Heights
development which will become big park under present plan. To the left are
Twin Peaks, with Midtown Terrace at far left. Photo was taken from Mt. Davidson.”
Photo courtesy of the San
Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Housing construction in the Parkmerced district. Date
Jan. 30, 1943. Newscopy: “Concrete foundations are in and a framework
of homes already rising in the midst of scattered debris on the Metropolitan
Housing project, Lake Merced. Vast areas of ground are covered by heaped
up bathtubs, ready to be moved into completed homes.”
Photo courtesy of the San
Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Golden Gate Heights • May 10, 1927• From Pacheco
and Funston North along 14th & 15th Aves.
Photo courtesy of the San
Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Ingleside Terraces 1911-12
Photo courtesy of the San
Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Mysterious Photo
of Houses and Sandunes in the Sunset District
Photo courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Homes and Sandunes in the Sunset
Mysterious Photo of West Portal
Photo courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Written underneath: “Home Building following completion of Twin Peaks tunnel.”
View of Mount Davidson from Twin Peaks, 1915–1925
Photo courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Written on back: “late 1910s early 1920s; Mt. Davidson in 192?; note windmill + farm - houses near French Man’s Creek.”
Forest Hill
March 3, 1945 Photo courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Cameraman Eddie Murphy, who took this picture, describes it in the following
poetic words: ‘A bit of Forest Hill from the grounds of Laguna Honda Home,
with Dewey-blvd
angling off to the left and the top of Forest Hill Station hiding shyly
in the trees at the bottom, lower right.’ (Gosh, you’d never think Eddie
had such fancy thoughts in him!)”.
Construction
of Stonestown apartment buildings Date 1949 July 2. Photo courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
“A small city is rapidly springing up west of 19th-ave, on the shores of Lake Merced. It’s ‘Stonestown,’ 23-million-dollar project of Ellis and Henry Stoneson, and this photo shows the rapid progress being made on the four 10-story apartment houses (in the rear) and the smaller two- and three-story buildings in the foreground. Company spokesmen say the smaller buildings will be ready for occupancy about Aug. 1, while it will be another six months before the apartment houses are completed. Work on a complete shopping and recreational area will begin soon. The project will consist of 28 smaller apartment houses, the four large ones, each with 90 apartments, and an extensive shopping center. Between 3000 and 3500 persons will live in ‘Stonestown’ in the 783 rental units. The project covers 67 choice acres. The picture was taken from Vernon and Shields-Sts, a hill just east of the project.”
View of San Francisco from Twin Peaks: Sept. 1, 1928. Written on back: S.F. Real Estate; Mediterranean Village | Courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
