Alcatraz Island
West side of Alcatraz Island viewed from a boat on the bay.
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Contains 9006 photos
View NE from Coit Tower
View looking down onto Pier 33 and 35 from Coit Tower.
Telegraph Hill
Powell & Post
View southeast across intersection to Muni Washington & Jackson Line cable car #512 passing Union Square.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
Cable cars #523 and #513. View north on Powell.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
Cable cars #523 and #513. View north on Powell. Pedestrians in crosswalk
Downtown / Union Square
Taylor near Bay
View south at approaching Powell St cable car #522. Russian Hill apartment towers in distance.
North Beach
Hyde & Beach
Powell & Hyde cable car #523 at turntable. Haslett Warehouse in right background.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Hyde & Jefferson
View south on Hyde Street past Haslett Warehouse on left to Russian Hill apartment towers. Buena Vista Cafe at center, Victorian Park at right.
Fishermans Wharf
Jefferson near Jones
View southeast across Jefferson to DiMaggio's restaurant with Fishermans Wharf parking lot to right. (First half hour was 35 cents.)
Fishermans Wharf
SF Zoo
Elephant in concrete exhibit space. [San Francisco Fleishhacker Zoo Jul 26, 1956]
Lakeshore
SF Zoo
Waterfall on 'Monkey Island,' concrete monkey exhibit structure at zoo. [San Francisco Fleishhacker Zoo Jul 26, 1956]
Lakeshore
SF Zoo
Polar Bears in concrete exhibit grotto. [San Francisco Fleishhacker Zoo Jul 26, 1956]
Lakeshore
SF Zoo
Bears in concrete exhibit grotto. [Fleishhacker Zoo Jul 26, 1956]
Lakeshore
SF Zoo
"Little Puffer" small scale train full of passengers. [Fleishhacker Zoo Jul 26, 1956]
Lakeshore
Oakland, CA
Miniature steam train ride with passengers in Peralta Park, Oakland. Peralta Playland (1950 – 1968) was a small amusement park along the channel between Lake Merritt and the estuary next to the Kaiser Convention Center. Locomotive painted in livery (color scheme) of Southern Pacific Daylight. Childrens Fairyland? [Oakland Jul 29, 1956] Train was called the "Oakland Acorn." According to Kathryn Kasch in an article in the Oakland Heritage Alliance News, "the steam engine and five cars were built in 1949 by George Reddington and Robert Blecha in San Leandro and 1,500 feet of narrow gauge track was laid around the bit of exposed estuary channel." 2 The train opened to the public on July 22, 1950. The rail line was called the C. & E. G. R.R. (Carefree and Extra Gladsome Railroad).
Outside SF