Sutro Heights
Sutro Heights, by Ansel Adams. Statues of 'Prometheus', planter urn, and 'Femme au Serpent' on Parapet. Seal Rocks in background.
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Staging for construction of fake rock retaining wall below at Sutro Heights
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Sutro Heights Rock Work
Construction of artificial rock retaiing wall below Sutro Heights, View from Point Lobos Avenue.
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Cliff House
Cliff House. Japanese tea house restaurant and snack concession stand on observation deck. View north.
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Third Cliff House
Third Cliff House. Observatory on terrace viewing deck. Structure housed telescopes and rental binoculars.
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Balboa near La Playa
Rocket Speedway ride at corner of Balboa St. & La Playa. View northeast. Gustav Moeller house on ridge behind.
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Third Cliff House
South facade. View northwest from lower walkway. Dirty drapes, forlorn looking, just prior to purchase by Whitney Brothers.
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SS Ohioan Shipwreck
Freighter SS Ohioan aground at Point Lobos. North Seal Rocks in background. Wave Motor at lower center. Lands End. [1947]
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SS Ohioan Shipwreck
Freighter SS Ohioan on rocks at Point Lobos, being hit by waves. Stack smoking, so taken shortly after stranding on the night of October 7, 1936. [Burton Photo Album] Photo postcard. Fisherman's Rock at lower left.
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SS Ohioan Shipwreck
Freighter SS Ohioan stranded at Point Lobos with North Seal Rock in background. Wave motor at center. [Burton Photo Album]
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Point Lobos Ave
Point Lobos Ave. Concessions between Cliff House and Sutro Baths. View northeast from Cliff House.
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Cliff House
Third Cliff House. Bathing beauties seated in main dining room
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Third Cliff House
Third Cliff House and autos on Point Lobos Blvd. View west. Taken early in Whitney era.
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Merrie Way
Market Street Railway (MSRy) 2-line streetcar #215 on private right-of-way crossing Merrie Way. Sign on front of car advertises wreck of the oil tanker SS Frank Buck at Lands End. Sutro Heights in background.
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[The Beach from Sutro Heights, San Francisco Zan 282] Elevated view south from parapet, with statues and urns in foreground, people seated in chairs. (Statues were repainted / whitewashed by mid-1938.)
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View south to Ocean Beach from parapet, with statues of 'Prometheus' and 'Femme au Serpent' and planter urn in foreground. (Statues were repainted / whitewashed by mid-1938)
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Third Cliff House
Third Cliff House and autos on Point Lobos Blvd. View northwest from Sutro Heights. Seal Rocks at left.
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SS Ohioan Shipwreck
Wreck of the freighter SS Ohioan at Point Lobos. Ship wrecked the night of October 7, 1936. In 1938, waves broke the hull into three sections.
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SS Ohioan Shipwreck
SS Ohioan shipwreck on Point Lobos just north of the Cliff House. View southwest. North Seal Rock in background [DPW] [A5618 5-24-38 Wreck of Steamship Ohioan] Ship wrecked on the night of October 7, 1936. Storm waves in 1938 broke the hull into three pieces.
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Boy Scouts and Jesse H. Miller, Grand President of the Native Sons of the Golden West dedicate a plaque to Adolph Sutro. Sutro's daughter Rosa Sutro Morbio accepts. Main Gate on Point Lobos Ave
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