A couple of postcard views of German (renamed Franklin in World War I) Hospital. #sfmemory

Franklin Hospital, circa 1944
Here's a boy posed on the steps of Franklin Hospital, on the hill between Noe & Castro, 14th & Duboce. He & dad were killing time waiting for a new baby sister. Now it's the site of CPMC/ Davies campus. I guess the neon sign was visible downtown. #sfhistory #sfmemory

SFMemory Update - 229 images
Families in Kodachrome, Cable cars, the 1st SF Giants game, and 1940s Hunters Point development I promised earlier in the week take a look! SFMemory.org/Update/2025-05-28 #sfhistory #sfmemory https://sfmemory.org/Update/2025-05-28

Hunters Point 1914
You know I'm obsessed with the development at Hunters Point, so I had to buy this glass copy negative aerial view showing the shipyard and hilltop before any of it. The main development there didn't happen until the 1930s, more one this later. #sfhistory #sfmemory

Columbus near Pacific Dec 1969
View southerly on Columbus between Broadway and Pacific showing the east side of the street. The Sentinel Building at left. Portsmouth Square Holiday Inn under construction #sfhistory #sfmemory

Still walking … Haight and Buchanan 1940 & today #sfhistory #sfmemory #thenandnow

Union Square, 1948

The Union Square Garage was pretty new, built in 1941, and apparently was packed full in 1948. What I don't understand is why all the cars are the same color. #sfhistory #sfmemory

Central Freeway, 1983
It was convenient, but what a blight, fortunately that stub never got added to. Opera Plaza was pretty new and the State PUC building (Van Ness & McAllister) was yet to be built. there are a few more aerial shots around Civic Center in the latest update: https://sfmemory.org/Update/2025-04-16 #sfhistory #sfmemory

John Daly Boulevard, 1936

San Francisco's Department of Public Works photographed thousands of sites showing their infrastructure changes, not sure if they did the work here. A remarkable vista of what Westlake looked like once, and still recognizable. #sfmemory

Haight & Ashbury, 1968
What's wrong with this picture? When I got it with a few other tourist snaps I didn't think much of it, but looking closely I can see how things were changing in the neighborhood. (dated 1968 from others in the set) #sfmemory #sfhistory

Carquinez Strait, Sept 1957
A view north from a US Navy Blimp toward construction of Interstate 80 Freeway and the beginning of the parallel span of the Carquinez Bridge (just east of the original 1927 bridge which was replaced in 2003) Abe Doty photo via @footage #sfmemory

Seals Stadium, April 15 1958
First Giants Game in San Francisco (the first Major League game on the west coast)
15 Amateur slides just discovered in the pile. Years ago I was told that the frame for that flower horseshoe was still in the backyard at Pinelli's Flowerland on Clement #sfhistory #sfmemory

SFMemory, Out of Scope
I've been going through thousands of slides sent to me by Rick & Megan Prelinger looking for local Bay Area views. Here are some that I love that don't fit the criteria.

I'll still put them up. #sfmemory #foundphotography