Open SF History Photos

Visitacion Valley
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Visitacion Valley

view East to Bayview Hill, Harkness Ave, unpaved road

Visitacion Valley
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

Looking west towards Delta Street

Visitacion Valley
View from San Bruno Mountain
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View from San Bruno Mountain

View Northeast toward Visitacion Valley, Bayview Hill, and Hunters Point. Excavations and fill for constcution of US101 Bayshore Freeway.

Outside SF
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

View southeast from old foundation located at approximately 445 Oxford Street past green houses and homes on lightly built streets. Building at left built 1933 as Home of the Good Shepherd convent and girls' school. In 2018, it is Cornerstone Academy-Cambridge Campus Middle School, located at Cambridge & Bacon.

University Mound
Lands End
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Lands End

Ferries & Cliff House train rounding Lands End turn. Marin Headlands in distance. (Also called the Cliff Line train. It was converted to electric streetcar operations in 1905.)

Sutro
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

From Burrows Street, looking towards Cambridge and Bacon

McLaren Park
Woolsey near Yale
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Woolsey near Yale

View East on Woolsey Street between Yale and Cambridge. (Now the entire area in the foreground is part of McLaren Park. In 1959, homeowners had their homes condemned and bought out by the city for an expansion of McLaren Park. This photo taken in a spot now uphill and west of McNab Lake and Louis Sutter Playground)

McLaren Park
Olmstead near Bowdoin
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Olmstead near Bowdoin

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

Portola
Goettingen near Alpha
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Goettingen near Alpha

View South to Bayshore Freeway, Visitacion Valley, and San Bruno Mountain. 1325 Somerset at center

Visitacion Valley
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

view South to San Bruno Mt, Brazil and Prague in foreground, Excelsior District

McLaren Park
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

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

Portola
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

View West from about the present Alder Street toward the ridgeline of McLaren Park. Houses at center still stand on Mill Street.

Visitacion Valley
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

site of future Mansell Ave and Visitation Street, looking Southwest

McLaren Park
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

View East, Cow grazing at center.

Portola
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

view South to Visitation Valley, Cow Palace and San Bruno Mt

McLaren Park
Sutro Railroad
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Sutro Railroad

Sutro streetcar approaching Cliff House. View west from private right of way below Merrie Way, towards Cliff House.

Sutro
McLaren Park Aerial
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McLaren Park Aerial

Aerial view, looking South, Duplicate of 27.4138

Bret Harte
McLaren Park
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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.

McLaren Park
McLaren Park
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McLaren Park

Aerial view east over the Excelsior, McLarne park at center, Bayview Hill beyond.

Excelsior
San Bruno Mountain
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San Bruno Mountain

View to McLaren Park. Cityscape and downtown buildings in background.

Outside SF