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  Those must have been really small kids at the Conservatory in Golden Gate Park! Or else, they were Victorian voodoo dolls!  (Thumbnail image)

This one is a personal then and now of me with my nieces taken in June of 1987. That was the 50th Anniversary candle they painted on the cement Island of the Bay Bridge the previous November, and hadn’t, entirely removed yet. Pier 14, in the news a lot these days, now juts out behind where we were

The top image is from the opening scene of the movie with the Bay Bridge and San Francisco Skyline. (Thumbnail image)

Harold being recruited for an army career up on Sutro Heights as crippled, blind, and shell shocked soldiers stumble past them. (Thumbnail image)

Dustin Hoffman on the Bay Bridge: (Thumbnail image)

The USS Caine at the old Pier 18, now gone. (Thumbnail image)

The Alcatraz Prison recreation yard: (Thumbnail image)

“Dirty Harry” investigates the murder of a child at the bottom of Potrero Hill. (Thumbnail image)

Cary Grant’s’s crew stayed at the Fairmont Hotel in the movie. (Thumbnail image)

The bus where the massacre takes place in the opening scenes of the film leaves the Transbay Terminal Building. The bottom picture was taken the day the terminal closed in August, 2010. (Thumbnail image)