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Twin Peaks
Market Street from Twin Peaks (Note Bay Bridge construction) • Oct. 12, 1934 • By permission SF History Center, SF Public Library.
December 2011
Lakeshore (Aeriel view) January 27, 1951. By permission of SF History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Golden Gate Heights - rubble wall on 14th Avenue, northerly to 15th Avenue and Aloha Avenue • Mar. 7, 1927. By permission of SF History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
October 2011
Sunset Dist. from 26th & Quintara St. to ocean 1945. By permission of SF History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
September 2011
The San Francisco Commercial Club visits Forest Hill, April 18, 1913. Source: Greg Gaar Collection; Dewey/Pacheco Reprint permission was be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
July-August 2011
Mt. Davidson S.F. Calif. Date Unknown. Reprint permission was be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
June 2011
OCEAN BEACH, Car & Bus At End of “B” Line. Date Mar. 20, 1927. Folder: S.F. Districts-Ocean Beach-1920’s. Reprint permission was be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
May 2011
INGLESIDE TERRACES, Ocean Avenue at Cerritos. From the Willard E. Worden Glass Plate circa 1912, by permission of the SF Historical Collection of the SF Public Library. Were the iron Ingleside Terrace signs scrapped for WWII metal? editor@westsideobserver.com
April 2011
Sunset District Development
Sunset District Homes. Date [190-?]. Sunset-1900's. If you have more information about the date and location of this photo, contact: editor@westsideobserver.com. By permission from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
March 2011
Twin Peaks
View From Twin Peaks — (190?) Permission from the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library.
February 2011
Midtown Terrace
Midtown Terrace May 26, 1958. LATEST BIG S.F. HOME DEVELOPMENT—Scene of San Francisco’s latest major home development now under construction on the western slopes of Twin Peaks and Sutro Forest. First of the new Sunstream Homes in the Midtown Terrace project will be opened to the public June 4. Mayor Christopher will officiate at the opening ceremonies. Permission from the San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library.
December 2010
7th Avenue and Lawton Street
View of the Sunset District from 7th Avenue and Lawton Street. Date 1921. Location Folder: S.F. Districts-Sunset. Reproduction permission from San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
November 2010
Diamond Heights
Clipper Street freeway extension Date 1947 June 20. S.F. Districts-Diamond Heights-1940’s. Newscopy: “DEBUT FOR FREEWAY DUE—Pictured above is another link in San Francisco’s program of freeway traffic arteries, the Clipper-St extension, scheduled for completion by July 15. Its course traced by arrows, it will be the main east-west arterial to the contemplated second Bay crossing and connect with all north-south arterials between Twin Peaks and the Bay. Meantime, it will provide motorists easier access from Portola-Dr, at point shown in right foreground, to the industrial areas. The new $182,000 road joins Clipper-St near Douglass Playground and is part of the so-called Army-Guerrero-San Jose-Clipper-Sts Project.”
Permission: SF Public Library Historical Photograph Collection.
October 2010
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
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