Arts & Entertainment Views Of Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights, Cole Valley, And More Of San Francisco Circa 1955 Today I continue reaching into the trove of color photographs taken by hobbyist Charles W. Cushman to bring you some more cityscapes that were on sunny spring days like we're having now, only
Arts & Entertainment Who Was This Man With A Pet Raccoon On Telegraph Hill In The 1950's? Among the trove of historic photos SFist has been sharing from the Charles W. Cushman Collection at the Indiana University Archives, there are several that Cushman took on an afternoon stroll up Telegraph
Arts & Entertainment Take In The Views Of SF From Telegraph Hill, Chinatown, And Ocean Beach In 1952 Last week I brought you the first in a series of posts on the treasure trove of San Francisco images of the last century from the archive of Indiana University, and the collection
Arts & Entertainment Amazing Trove Of Color Photos Show A Brand New Golden Gate Bridge & Scenes From The 1939 World's Fair These days, we are all photographers. The people of the future, assuming enough of our digital record remains, will have a staggering fecundity of documents of the lives we led, the clothes we
Arts & Entertainment New Exhibit Shows SoMa In The Days Before It Became All Lofts And Startups Last year we heard about photographer Janet Delaney's coffee-table book of 1970s and early 80s photos of SoMa, in the days before the Moscone Center and Yerba Buena and the rest of it
Arts & Entertainment Cool Historic Side-By-Sides Of The 1915 Panama Pacific International Expo And The Modern-Day Marina For the centennial of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, ScenePast.com has restored a selection of postcards from the festival and placed them side-by-side with some workaday scenes of 2015 San Francisco
SF News Remembering Jonestown And Why We Should Stop Saying 'Drink The Kool-Aid' This week marks the 36th anniversary of the deadly event we now simply call Jonestown. The horrifying tragedy was a national one, but it's one that belonged to the Bay Area, where the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Mission, Circa 1992 Adam Pfahler of the San Francisco punk band Jawbreaker recently came across some unprocessed Super 8 footage that he shot around the Mission in 1992. He got the film processed, and he uploaded
SF News Loma Prieta 25 Years Later: Harrowing CHP Footage Of Cypress Freeway And Bay Bridge Rescues In remembrance of the Loma Prieta earthquake which happened 25 years ago Friday, on October 17, 1989 SFist will be devoting some special coverage to the historical record of the quake itself, and
SF News Watch ABC7's Cheryl Jennings Reporting Live Right After The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake In remembrance of the Loma Prieta earthquake which happened 25 years ago Friday, on October 17, 1989 SFist will be devoting some special coverage to the historical record of the quake itself, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Take A Silent Trip Through San Francisco In 1960 Again we turn to the trove of historic videos that have been getting uploaded by the British Pathé news service, and here we have a charming, full color look at some of the
Arts & Entertainment The 1967 'Human Be-In' Vs. What Golden Gate Park Hippiedom Looks Like Now “Peace in San Francisco” arguably started with a conch shell blast and Hare Krishna chanting at the "Human Be-In" on the Polo Grounds of Golden Gate Park. In this rare footage of the
SF News There's A 'Graveyard Of Ships' West Of San Francisco: Photos More than 300 ships are believed to be buried in the waters west of San Francisco in the Gulf of the Farallones, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). During a
