Portola

Contains 210 photos

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McLaren Park

view West, Bowdoin St in foreground, Woolsey on right, Dwight on left

1950 Portola

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McLaren Park

Aerial View of Portola District and McLaren Park, Visitation Valley beyond. Many of the houses along Bayshore Blvd we're moved to other sites in the neighborhood for US101 Freeway construction.

1950 McLaren Park

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Goettingen near Mansell

Backyard gardener, looking northeast from about Goettingen Street. Cleared land for Bayshore Freeway in background. Mt. St. Joseph's Orphanage on the tree-lined hill in background. Kroehler Manufacturing Building at right still stands at 1485 Bayshore Blvd. (27 Brussells Street at right. Gas storage tanks in distance at Cesar Chavez (then Army) and Evans, and at Pennsylvania near 23rd were later removed.

1950 Portola

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Goettingen near Mansell

Backyard gardener, looking northeast to Mt. St. Joseph. Cleared land for Bayshore Freeway in background. Mt. St. Joseph's Orphanage on the tree-lined hill in background. Kroehler Manufacturing Building at right still stands at 1485 Bayshore Blvd. Gas storage tanks in distance at Cesar Chavez (then Army) and Evans, and at Pennsylvania near 23rd were later removed.

1950 Portola

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San Bruno & Sweeny

View north to Bernal Heights in background, Doidge-Koren Paints. Municipal Railway H-line streetcar #55.

1950 Portola

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Brussels near Wayland

448 Brussels, built in 1900, has been heavily modified and bears little resemblance to this picture. The side yard is occupied by a structure built in 1962.

1951 Portola

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Olmstead near Bowdoin

View North toward Portola, Potrero Hill. Gas storage tanks and Bay Bridge in the distance.

1952 Portola

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Bayshore near Augusta

US101 Freeway construction, view northwest toward Alemany Boulevard overcrossing and Bernal Heights in the background. Sign at right reads 'Another Freeway for your Safety'. Kunst Bros. Paint Co. sign on fence on Bernal Hill.

1953 Portola

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Visitation Valley

View towards San Bruno Mountain

1953 Portola

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Bayview Hill

Looking southeast towards intersection of Bayshore and 3rd Street

1953 Portola

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3rd & Bayshore

View Northest from Bayview Hill, US101 Freeway will cross at center

1953 Portola

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3rd & Bayshore

View north on Bayshore Boulevard from 3rd Street, showing cleared land for US101 freeway at left. [Bayshore and 3rd Street Freeway 101 under construction, looking north]

1953 Portola

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3rd & Bayshore

View north from Bayview Hill toward the intersection of Bayshore Boulevard and 3rd Street, showing cleared land for US101 freeway at left. [Bayshore Blvd and freeway 101 Freeway 101 under construction, looking north]

1953 Portola