Some of the people who created, lived, and worked in the western neighborhoods of San Francisco:

• Stan Adair
  Country living off 19th Avenue in the 1920s - by Stan Adair
• Madie Brown
  An ardent nature lover, she was the one who organized a citywide preservation effort to make Mt. Davidson a public park. - by Jacquie Proctor
• Phoebe H. Brown
  The Great Earthquake and Fire brought her family to build Sea Cliff's first residence. - by Florence Holub
• Golden Gate Park Bums
  1937 article about the "bums" (some professional) who play baseball in Golden Gate Park - by Will Connolly
• Streetwise: Doelger City
  No man had a greater impact on the Sunset District than builder Henry Doelger - by Steve "Woody" LaBounty
• Jack Coll
  Memories of the Richmond in the 40's - by Jack Coll
• Anna L. Conti
  An artist shows there's many ways to document a historical icon.
• Warren Crandall
  The spiritual heir of Playland-at-the-Beach
• My First Dance
  Rosemarie Green's first hop in Forest Hill - by Rosemarie Marshall Green
• Mark Daniels
  Landscape architect of Forest Hill, Sea Cliff and more.
• The Sunset Developers
  Gellerts, Doelgers, and the Stoneson Brothers - By Ken Zinns
• Father of the Richmond District
  Builder Fernando Nelson's Richmond District work. - by John Freeman
• Rita Rivera Doyle
  Ocean Avenue fixture for over 30 years.
• Ella Driscoll
  Ella (Gross) Driscoll has lived in Ingleside Terraces since 1963, but grew up with a twin sister in the outer Sunset District
• Fred Van Dyke
  a surfing legend from the Sunset - by Lorri Ungaretti
• John and Irene Fay
  Longtime residents of the Sunset District.
• Robert Fisher
  Sunset Heights, Columbus School and other memories
• John Freeman
  Shack carpenter, historian, and Richmond District native.
• Val J. Golding
  Sunset Reflections: Timel's Creamery, World War II, and Sunset streetcars... - by Val J. Golding
• Rev. Roland Gordon
  25 years at Ingleside Presbyterian Church
• John Gross
  Product of a pioneering Ingleside family
• Henry H. Gutterson
  Supervising Architect of St. Francis Wood - by Richard Brandi
• Al Harris
  If you've attended a community group meeting in the OMI, you've likely met Al Harris.
• The Circle of History
  Chance meetings make for good history - by Woody LaBounty
• First Doelger Home Identified
  First Doelger House Discovered: 1427-39th Avenue
• Ron Jones
  Storyteller, Writer, Special Olympics Basketball Coach, and Sunset boy.
• Frank and Jennie Jue
  The Richmond district after nine kids and almost 50 years...
• Joseph A. Leonard
  Builder of Jordan Park, Richmond Heights and Ingleside Terraces
• Leon Levy
  Leon Levy worked for almost 40 years as a pharmacist in the Inner Sunset. - by Lorri Ungaretti
• Streetwise: Willie Mays
  The Giants centerfielder moves to the western neighborhoods - by Steve "Woody" LaBounty
• Duncan McDuffie
  A first-person account of the building of St. Francis Wood
• Fernando Nelson
  Builder of West Portal, Parkway Terrace, and Merced Manor - by Richard Brandi
• Sand Dunes to a City Park
  Memories of Golden Gate Park and the Inner Sunset from 1920. - by Rosemarie Marshall Green
• Maria Fe Picar
  Growing up in OMI...
• Joe Politz
  The Joe from the Richmond's Joe's Ice Cream
• Patti Poole
  Ingleside Terraces experiences great and common...
• The Reid Brothers - James and Merrit Reid
  Architects of the Cliff House, Fairmont Hotel, and a whole lot of Richmond District theaters.
• Streetcar Crash Remembered
  Jack Tillmany celebrates an unusual 60th anniversary
• Ralph L. Selleck
  Playland worker, postman, baseball and race fan - By Denise F. Selleck
• Charles Warren Stoddard
  The poet and writer remembered the sand dunes of the 1850s.
• Eliis and Henry Stoneson
  Builders of Stonestown and Lakeside
• Adolph Sutro
  The man who practically owned the western neighborhoods.
• Pat French Swendsen
  Memories from a long-time Richmond district resident.
• Peter Vaernet
  Brooks Park guardian...
• Lovie Lee Ward
  Ocean View Community Activist
• Minnie Ward
  Ocean View Community Activist
• Dan Weaver
  A view on Ocean Avenue's revitalization
• Johnnie "The Birdman" Williams
  John Williams had a trained bird act that he plied at both Ocean Beach and in the vicinity of the Cliff House from the late 1880s until 1907. - By John Freeman
• Mary Ada and Charles Williams
  A wife preserves a husband's love of the Parkside district.
• Ray F. Wilson
  Ingleside memories of smelly schools and unexploded mortar shells?
• The Gjoa and the Roald Amundsen monument
  A famous ship that spent decades in the Golden Gate Park - by Hamilton Barrett
• Powell-Wolff Fight, 1906
  Lew Powell and Willie Wolff fight below the Cliff House, July 4, 1906
• Sunset Community Improvement Club - 1947
  Civic-minded folk of the past in words and image. - Courtesy of Jerome Sapiro