Races and chases

“Great day for the race, huh?”

“What race?”

“The Human Race.”

These are pictures about various races and chases around San Francisco. (Thumbnail images)

I’m not sure what this race in Chinatown at Grant and Pacific Avenues in 1982 was. (Flickr)

Vic Morrow, being chased by Inspector Keller (Michael Douglas) in a 1973 episode of the television series ‘The Streets of San Francisco’, runs down Grant Avenue under the Chinatown Dragon Gate, where he is killed on Bush Street by a passing van. Sadly, nine years later Vic Morrow was killed in a tragic accident that wasn’t a teleplay.

A bicycle race at the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park in 1945:

“Hey, I didn’t say Go yet! What do you think this bazooka I’m holding is for?” (opensfhistory.org)

 

Buster Keaton, being chased by San Francisco’s finest, runs down Minna Street and turns south on New Montgomery, in his 1922 film ‘Daydreams’.

 

City Hall honors the San Francisco Giants 1962 Pennant win, and the 2013 Oracle Team, USA 2013 America’s Cup yacht racing victory.

The Dodge Charger flies over Taylor Street at Union Street followed by Steve McQueen’s Mustang in the classic chase scene from the 1968 film ‘Bullitt’.

  

A roller diva watches the start of the Bay to Breakers Race at Howard and Fremont Streets in May of 1986: Based on the direction of the runners and the angle of the stop lights, this may have been the corner where she was resting her cute little….. everything on. (SF Gate)