Fort Mason
Army band playing on pier at Port of Embarkation. View looking down from a ship tied up alongside the pier.
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Van Ness near North Point
Municipal Railway (Muni) tow truck, parked behind the Fontana Warehouse. Political Posters
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
North Point at Hyde
View west to Streetcar #1006 with wings livery, Ghirardelli Clock tower, North Point Market, barber.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Beach near Larkin
Special Steam Engine No. 21 Western Pacific, the J. W. Bowker of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad on Belt Line tracks at Aquatic Park in front of Maritime Museum (Aquatic Park Casino) for the museum's opening festivities
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Bay near Van Ness
1143-1151 Bay Street, south side of street between Van Ness Avenue and Franklin Street. Five-unit apartment building, built 1950.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Aquatic Park
View toward Aquatic Park from Municipal Pier. Coit Tower at center
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Aquatic Park
View west on sidewalk near the end of Jefferson Street toward Aquatic Park Casino (now Maritime Museum). Fontana Warehouse in background left. Fort Mason at right.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Hyde & Beach
Municipal Railway (Muni) double-ended cable car #38 of the O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line at terminus on Hyde Street. Haslett Warehouse in background.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Beach & Polk
Aquatic Park Casino (Maritime Museum). Steam locomotive J.W. Bowker from Virginia & Truckee Railroad displayed in front of Museum. (The first piece in a proposed railroad museum.) Haslett Warehouse in distance.
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Laguna & Marina Blvd
Entrance to Fort Mason pier area. Guard shack and sentry at center. [SF Port of Embarkation]
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Aquatic Park
Sunbathers on grass around State Belt railroad track. [S.F.-PARKS-AQUATIC 55533. Received Examiner Reference Library Aug 10 1953]
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Aquatic Park
Bay side of Casino Building (now Maritime Museum) with sunbathers on the lawn. (No color on slide, processing error?)
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Aquatic Park
View north across Aquatic Park Lagoon from Casino Building (now Maritime Museum) to Municipal Pier, Hyde St. Pier, Alcatraz and Angel Island. (No color on slide, processing error?)
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Aquatic Park
View east across Aquatic Park toward Hyde Street Pier. Derelict riverboat 'Fort Sutter' lies stranded on the beach near rowing clubs. Entrepreneur Barney Gould purchased the old riverboat and brought it to Aquatic Park in February 1953 with hopes to convert it into a showboat. It was later moved to west end of beach where it burned on May 1, 1959.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Aquatic Park
The derelict riverboat 'Fort Sutter' beached at east end of Aquatic Park. Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill in the background. View from the Municipal Pier. Entrepreneur Barney Gould purchased the old riverboat and brought it to Aquatic Park in February 1953 with hopes to convert it into a showboat. It was beached at the east end of Aquatic Park near the rowing clubs. The boat was later moved to west end of beach where it burned on May 1, 1959.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Hyde & Beach
Muni Cable Car #51; looking north to Alcatraz and Angel Island. Buena Vista Cafe at left, rowing clubs, Hyde St. Pier, Haslett Warehouse.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Aquatic Park
Lady posing in front of bleachers east of Casino / Maritime Museum Building. Lifeguard's rescue paddle board at right.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View from the Bay
View of Russian Hill, Ghirardelli Factory at right
SF Bay
Hyde & Beach
View west to cable car turntable at Aquatic Park, SF Muni Cable Car #520. Undeveloped land would later be turned into Victorian Park. Maritime Museum and Fort Mason in distance.
North Beach
Hyde & Beach
View northwest to cable car on turntable in Aquatic Park, Hyde & Beach Streets. Fort Mason and Golden Gate Bridge in distance. (Undeveloped land would later become Victorian Park.)
North Beach