“Pick a year, any year. Okay, 1974.”

Although it was over a half of a century ago, 1974 seems like…… a long time ago! These are pictures from that mid 1970s year that I’ve posted in the past. (Thumbnail images)

  

B Dalton Bookseller, in a vintage picture taken on Kearny Street, posted on the San Francisco Remembered Facebook page: Bookstores like B. Dalton, Rand McNally, and Bonanza Books were all around Downtown San Francisco back in 1974.

 

A cable car trying to sneak in the back door on a MUNI bus from a SF Chronicle picture taken at Powell and Sutter Streets.

  

An old J Line Street car heads down off Liberty Street toward Dolores Park, in a vintage Dave Glass photo:

 

Polk Street at California in a vintage San Francisco Chronicle picture from SF Gate:

  

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Larkin Street near McAllister. The Parade’s coming up again next weekend.

  

Looking down toward the Hyde Street Pier from Beach Street in a police chase scene from a 1974 episode of the ‘The Streets of San Francisco’:

 

Recently departed actor Gene Hackman, on the corner of Geary  and Stockton Streets in a scene from the 1974 film ‘The Conversation’; a film many consider one of the best movies from the 1970s:

  

A 1974 poster that I have: If you can zoom in on this, it’s very interesting.