Lands End
Hermit Edward Lynn sitting outside his cave at Lands End Beach / Mile Rocks Beach.
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View S from Sutro Heights
View south. Left to right: Seal Rock House, Ocean Beach Pavilion, Lurline Pump Station, Golden Gate Park, Great Highway, dunes, beach
Richmond
Teresita near Agua Way
234 Teresita Blvd. Single family home, built 1951. Used as a church at one time.
Miraloma Park
Grant & Bush
400 Grant Avenue, built 1913. View northeast across intersection of Grant Ave and Bush Street before the Chinatown Gate was built. Visible in the frame is the Grant Cafe, Western States Importing Company, and Eddie Pond's Kubla Kahn Theater Restaurant, promoted as San Francisco's Most Exciting Chinese Theater Restaurant in 1946. Astoria Hotel sign at left. Lucky Lager and Coca Cola delivery trucks. Within the Chinatown Historic District on the National Register.
Chinatown
Embarcadero near Mission
136 - 142 Embarcadero, built 1907, housed the Emerson Drug Co., Sea Cliff Cafe, Naval Uniforms store, and prominent Bromo-Seltzer sign, flanked by two hotels. All three structures are extant, though altered. Embarcadero Cafe at left, 144 Embarcadero.
Financial District
Masonic & Turk
Associated Gas station, 2290 Turk Street at Masonic Avenue, now the site of the Blood Centers of the Pacific (Irwin Memorial Blood Bank) which moved to this location in 1955. View east from Masonic.
Anza Vista
17th & South Van Ness
View northeast from 17th Street and South Van Ness: this gas station and the distinctive 1895 Victorian behind it at 573 South Van Ness are still recognizable. Birdcage traffic signal, Mohawk Gas, Globe Furniture Manufacturing Co.
Mission
Adair & South Van Ness
Por Boy Drive-In. Large angled plate glass, neon striping, chromed double doors, and Acme Beer. What's not to love about the long-gone Por-Boy Drive-In, which stood on the southwest corner of South Van Ness Avenue at Adair Street.
Mission
Cortland & Wool
Arrow Pharmacy at 439 Cortland Avenue, built 1910. When it was sold by owner Michael Anthony Callagy, Jr. in 1996, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Steve Rubenstein penned Ode to a Pharmacy's Passing - For seniors, S.F. druggist's closing is a bitter pill, in memoriam.
Bernal Heights
Union near Gough
The Theodore School of Music at 1666 Union Street was an accordion school in the late 1950s, much like its architecture would imply. The building, built in 1950, still exists, though the music-themed embellishments are largely gone. The building on the right has been demolished and replaced.
Union Street
24th & York
2789 24th Street. Opened as The Roosevelt in 1924, this theater was known as the York for many years. It closed in 1993 but reopened, as Brava Women's Theater Arts in 2001. Stelling's Market. Coca Cola delivery truck.
Mission
California & Laurel
The Feed Bag, at 3401 California Street and Laurel Street, one of fourteen local restaurants and bars owned by Harry Meharry; later known as Miz Brown's Feed Bag. Friendly waitresses served old-fashioned fare here until it shuttered in 2004.
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
California & Spruce.
In 1951, this future site of the Laurel Village Shopping Center was empty except for one business--Roselli at 3601 California.
Presidio Heights
Market near 5th
Zukor's Department Store at 885 Market Street near 5th Street. Zukor's specialized in women's clothing. This site is now part of the San Francisco Shopping Centre.
South of Market
Hampshire near 24th
Automotive Electricians at 1198 Hampshire Street, west side of block near 24th Street. These structures, which appear to be from the 19th Century; the peaked-roof structure perhaps a small stable with hay loft above, have been demolished. The building at right, 1196 Hampshire, built 1912, is still extant.
Mission