Month: July 2015

About as far east as you can get in San Francisco, is the west side of Treasure Island, seen here in 1936 for the ground breaking for the Treasure Island international Exposition that opened in 1939. Notice the flags of Nazi Germany on the right, and Japan on the left. The wheel in the sky sure turned on this one; a little more than five years later America was at war with both of those countries! (Thumbnail image)

Charlie Chaplin drives under the old stone streetcar bridge and past the Murphy Windmill at the southwest end of Golden Gate Park in his 1915 short comedy ‘A Jitney Elopement’. What is now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive runs past the embankment where the bridge was today. (Thumbnail image)

A Coit Towerless Telegraph Hill on the East side in the 1800’s. Toward the end of the Nineteenth Century a rock quarry was established on the hill forever changing its gentle slope on the Bay side. This was stopped in 1910 because of public outcry, but it still makes the Filbert Steps much more dramatic to climb up or walk down. (Thumbnail image)

The old WPA entrance to the San Francisco Zoo on the southwest side of the City. They’ve closed the area off now since I took this picture. That’s a restored Doggie Diner head in the background of the modern shot.

An official Pedestrian Pass for the opening day of the Golden Gate Bridge from my friend, Judy. I hope you had a fun day, Anna Martin. (Thumbnail image)

The heart and life’s blood of San Francisco’s cable car system is at these crossroads, Mason and Washington Streets, where the cable car barn is. The view is slightly farther down Washington Street in the old photo where the double slots formed in the 1950’s. A rare double slot patch of cable car tracks still is in use here a little ways down toward Powell Street. (Thumbnail image)

In the Cable Car Barn, giant pulleys keep the underground cables that operate the entire cable car system moving. (Thumbnail image)

Without the cable cars, great old pictures like this wouldn’t have been possible. Well, at least, I got one wave in my picture. (Thumbnail image)

Ah, a lovely setting from the 1960’s with the majestic Golden Gate Bridge, and the hills of Marin County in the background! Absolutely, beaut………. Wait a minute, it’s a fake! It’s an ad for a car! Hah! Knew it all the time! (Thumbnail image)

If she gets off, it’ll tip over on him! (Thumbnail image)