Open SF History Photos

SS Ohioan Shipwreck
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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.

Sutro
Man & girl on roof
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Man & girl on roof

631 O'Farrell in background. Rooftop in vicinity of O'Farrell and Larkin.

Tenderloin
Bush & Leavenworth
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Bush & Leavenworth

Woman on rooftop. Mark hopkins Hotel in background.

Lower Nob Hill
Man & girl on roof
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Man & girl on roof

Rooftop view from vicinity of O'Farrell and Larkin. Castle Apartments in background.

Tenderloin
Balboa & 48th Ave
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Balboa & 48th Ave

View east to couple posing with Cliff House Hotel and Apartments, Virginia Cafeteria in background

Richmond Outer
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

2 Girls with jumprope on roof

Dolores Park
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Dolores Park

View east past kneeling young woman, Melody Spencer, toward sunbathers and buildings on east side of Dolores, including Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Dolores and Cumberland (1916, architect William H. Crim).

Mission Dolores
Dolores Park
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Dolores Park

Teens with Mission High School in background

Mission Dolores
Dolores Park
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Dolores Park

View west toward Church Street. 3 Mission High School teenagers, Kathleen Durchman at left, enjoying the sun.

Mission Dolores
Dolores Park
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Dolores Park

View west toward Church Street. 3 Mission High School girls, Kathleen Durchman at center, leaning on boy.

Mission Dolores
Dolores Park
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Dolores Park

Teen boy with transistor radio and 7-Up soda. View east past playground towards Hamm's Brewery tower. Church across Dolores is Golden Gate Lutheran Church (aka Mission Park Congregational Church, Norwegian Lutheran Church, Ascension Lutheran Church), built 1910, as of 2015 Childrens Day School campus.

Mission Dolores
SS Ohioan Shipwreck
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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.

Sutro
Dolores Park
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Dolores Park

Teen couple sun bathing in Dolores Park, view east to houses on Dolores street and Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Dolores and Cumberland (1916, architect William H. Crim).

Mission Dolores
Ocean Beach
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Ocean Beach

Unknown man at Ocean Beach - Esplande (Bernal Heights man, Bill)

Sutro Heights
Highland near Andover
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Highland near Andover

Unknown man (Bill) on back porch, Mt St Joseph in background.

Holly Park
Highland near Andover
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Highland near Andover

View east toward Mt. St. Joseph's. Unknown man on porch. Possibly back of house on Highland Avenue near Holly Park.

Holly Park
Highland Near Andover
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Highland Near Andover

Unknown man, View east from slope of Holly Park, Paul Revere elementary school in background Possibly back of house on Highland Avenue near Holly Park

Holly Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Father and three sons, sitting next to Pool of Enchantment. (The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum would later be constructed around the pool.)

Golden Gate Park
Twin Peaks
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Twin Peaks

View East to Corbett & Mission District

Clarendon Heights
Noe Valley
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Noe Valley

View from Upper Noe Valley to Downtown, Castro Hill, before Bay Bridge. Alvarado School at left center. St. Philip the Apostle Church (Elizabeth and Diamond Sts.) at far right center.

Noe Valley