The Neighborhoods
The Neighborhoods Include:
Richmond District
(North of Golden Gate Park, south of the Presidio, bounded by the ocean and Arguello Boulevard.)Includes: Sea Cliff, Presidio Terrace, and we occasionally go east as far as Masonic Avenue.)
Recent Richmond District Additions
- Opening the Golden Gate
The Golden Gate Bridge opened in May 1927 - Sleuthing in the Digital Age
Unraveling the Mystery of Two 1890s Richmond District Houses - Shipwrecks at Lands End
At the particularly low tides you can see a number of shipwrecks at Lands End - Making Merry on Merrie Way
A long-time parking lot above the Sutro Baths site was once home to "pleasure grounds." - World War II in San Francisco
John Martini recounts how close the war came on Christmas Eve 1941
116 10th Avenue, 1951 
20 - 16th Avenue, 1951 
22nd and California, 1951 
Beertown Walk, 2012 
447-453 10th Avenue Sunset District
(South of Golden Gate Park, north of Sloat Boulevard, bounded by the ocean on the west and Stanyan Street/Golden Gate Heights on the east.)Includes: Parkside, Golden Gate Heights, Parkway Terrace.
Recent Sunset District Additions
- Kezar Memories
Memories of brawls and good football at Golden Gate Park's Kezar Stadium. - Pioneer Markets of the Outer Sunset
Early groceries nourished a new neighborhood. - The Ghosts of Sutro Forest
Historical Suicides in Sutro Forest leads to an imaginative night walk. - Jack O'Neill's First Surf Shop
Did the salt water sports innovator start in Santa Cruz or San Francisco? - The San Francisco Mariners Football Club
Remembering Pop Warner football in the Sunset District.
1354 48th Avenue, 1951 
22nd Ave Post Office, 1951 
1226 23rd Ave, 1951 
1382/84 47th Avenue, 1951 
Insure With Mutual West of Twin Peaks
Includes: West Portal, St. Francis Wood, Forest Hill, Balboa Terrace, Westwood Park, Miraloma Park, Midtown Terrace, Sherwood Forest, and Sunnyside.
Recent West of Twin Peaks Additions
- Daniel Burnham's Twin Peaks Vision
The grand unfulfilled plan to remake western San Francisco. - Savano Luggage
A West Portal Family Business: Savano's Luggage - A Walk Along the Almshouse Road
Retracing an 1890s country walk through the city. - Ingleside Coursing Park
Hounds once raced near today's City College of San Francisco. - Mystery Dividing Line
Funny shaped buildings in West Portal mark a link to San Francisco's Mexican era
Mount Davidson Market, 1952 
Panorama from Twin Peaks 
Detail of West of Twin Peaks in Burnham Plan, 1905 
Proposed Athenaeum of Burnham Plan 
234 Teresita, 1951 OMI
Includes: Ingleside, Ocean View, Merced Heights, Ingleside Terraces.
Recent OMI Additions
- Ingleside Coursing Park
Hounds once raced near today's City College of San Francisco. - Naming the Ingleside
How San Francisco's Ingleside District got it name. - Urban Realty Improvement Co. Sales Pamphlet, 1910
1910 brochure detailing Joseph A. Leonard's residential building offerings through the Urban Realty Improvement Company. - Engine Company 33
117 Broad Street is a historic 1890s firehouse and formerly the home of Engine Company 33. - McInerney & Kerrigan Market
An Ocean View grocery is uncovered by the clues in a 1911 image.
500 Bright Street, 1948. 
Ocean Avenue & El Rey Theater, 1940s 
Ocean Avenue Firehouse, 1950s 
Ocean Avenue Firehouse, 1950s 
Haney's Grocery Lake Merced
Includes: Lakeside, Parkmerced, Stonestown, Lakeshore
Recent Lake Merced Additions
- A Family in Lakeshore Park
Home movie footage courtesy of the Prelinger Archives in the Gellert-built neighborhood south of Sloat Boulevard. - Sunstream Homes Sales Brochure
1950s sales brochure of the Standard Building Company, run by the Gellert Brothers. - Walking the Lakeside Neighborhood
An Icelandic enclave near Stonestown - Lakeshore Park District
South of Sloat Boulevard, built by the Gellert Brothers in the 1940s and 1950s - Broderick-Terry Duel Reenactment
The 150th Anniversary of the last duel in California
Sunstream Home Job Number plate 
St. Ignatius jacket, 1969 
Sunstream Homes Sales Brochure 
Lakeshore Park and Country Club Acres