GGIE
GGIE (Golden Gate International Exposition) from an arriving ferryboat. Tower of the Sun, Elephant Towers, Key System Buses. Administration building .
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GGIE (Golden Gate International Exposition) from an arriving ferryboat. Tower of the Sun, Elephant Towers, Key System Buses. Administration building .
Treasure Island
Treasure Garden pool at GGIE (Golden Gate International Exposition).on Treasure Island. Bay Bridge in Background. Yerba Buena Island.
Treasure Island
Looking south from Cliff House down towards Playland and Ocean Beach
Sutro Heights
View south on Point Lobos Ave towards Ocean Beach. Lurline Pier
Sutro Heights
The Sky Tram (Skytram) ran from the terrace level behind the Cliff House to Point Lobos from 1955-1966. View here is from inside the quarry tunnel through Point Lobos looking towards Fisherman's Rock and Seal Rocks.
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
View northwesterly from upper deck, Right after it opened.
Candlestick Point
View southerly from lower deck, Right after it opened.
Candlestick Point
View east toward Kearny. Covered sidewalk on the left is because the Hartford Insurance building (650 California) is under construction. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building (1954, demolished 1991), Home Insurance building with Colonial tower (1951, demolished 1983), Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel). On right, The International Building and the Clunie Building at Montgomery with Bank of America ad painted on west side. St. Mary's Square parking garage entrance. Bay Bridge and Southern Pacific Building in distance.
Chinatown
Golden Gate International Exposition, Japanese Pavilion at the Golden Gate Int'l Exposition (GGIE) 1939-1940 Wold's Fair on Treasure Island.
Treasure Island
View east to Flying Scooter ride. Houses along the east side of the 800 block of 48th Avenue are in the background.
Richmond Outer
Commercial Slide. [Amusement Area at Ocean Beach.] Fulton Street near Great Highway.
Richmond Outer
[Sutro's Museum and Ice Skating Rink, Point Lobos] Viewed from Merrie Way.
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
View northwest across Market to last stages of demolition. Same demolition company as Sutro Baths. Homer Aron's wrecking company. Took 6 months to tear it down. ~February-August.
Civic Center
Ferryboat Eureka, in Southern Pacific markings, passing cantilever portion of Bay Bridge.
SF Bay
View southwest across 3rd & Townsend intersection to Southern Pacific Passenger Depot.
South Beach