You’ve Tried The Rest, Now Try The Best
For the first time in recent memory, I was in North Beach during a weekday.
Does not suck:
Proto-ASCII art:
I ventured to this strange diagonal land to finally meet @SF_Historian who is now on Twitter and fucking KILLING it.
Vallejo Street Wharf circa 1865: note the warehouse at center left: imgzoom.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics… … Same warehouse today: goo.gl/maps/9rfXe—
(@SF_Historian) January 16, 2013
(Yup, Front Street once fronted the water.)
Alas this warehouse had yet to be constructed for the 1853 Coast Survey and isn’t (yet) visible on Pastmapper:
Though you can see it on the 1859 Coast Survey map (which I hope to Pastmap soon):
(Looks like Vallejo Wharf consumed Cunningham’s Wharf.)
But fret not, those in SESF, @SF_Historian is a pan-chronofriscan:
Rare photo of Dolores Park c.1915 before the J-line was built. View is east from Church down 19th Street: sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dy…—
(@SF_Historian) January 16, 2013
(But let’s face it, anyone who has a Sanborn maps avatar is an automatic follow.)
Very cool!
God, I miss Golden Boy pizza. I used to live at the top of Vallejo (4 blocks from the warehouse in the pictures) and GB was a regular stop. And yes, SF_Historian is awesome.
if you click though to the source photo for the 19th/church shot it appears that church on dolores had an extention to the south that was removed at some point.