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On the left, the San Francisco Penninsula's Caltrain railroad (HSR will run on this ROW). Splitting off to the right with the locomotive is San Francisco's freight line to the port. That's the Bay Bridge in the distance, with the serpentine 280 Freeway winding up and over the industrial zone.

http://www.railpictures.net/images/d...1254291616.jpg
April 2009 pic by Kevin Sheridan at RailPictures.net
http://www.railpictures.net/images/d...1254291616.jpg

I wonder if we'll ever see taller buildings go up immediately around GG park, like Central Park....The park and ocean views would be spectacular.

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Originally Posted by fflint (Post 4649479)

Trolley buses sleeping

Where are the gangs of kids spray-painting tags on while they "sleep"?

Houseboat, condos, swan boat: Mission Creek

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/20...0501106817.jpg
Photo: Kristina Malsberger / SFGate
http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/20...0501106817.jpg

Cool finds, fflint. Something about the angles and the way that branch line descends make that railroad shot look unreal.

A bridge

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/phot...8Ylv0aZB64k%3D
Source: http://twitpic.com/10iitj

If the link still doesn't work, click on the "source"--it's worth it.

Maybe I fixed it (maybe not--did my best) but here's the (smaller) version from Curbed (the blue half on the left):

http://sf.curbed.com/uploads/2010_02_bridges.jpg
Source: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...eader_comments

Saw that on Curbed yesterday. Amazing.

I know only part of your building is visible, but can you see yourself working away in one of those lit windows? ;)

Haha, not on that side...you have a good memory!

I think you posted it in one of those show-us-your-building threads. I always knew it as the Crown Zellerbach Building, but that's too long. Now it's simply "fflint's building" to me, so you can never change jobs! :haha:

^Whoa, huge shot! A good thing though as the detail allows you to check out individual buildings and locations.

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Originally Posted by peanut gallery (Post 4802485)

^Whoa, huge shot! A good thing though as the detail allows you to check out individual buildings and locations.

Yes, and I love it for that reason, but here's another way too: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collect...map/index.html

^that really puts the devastation into perspective.... DAMN!

A wicked little gift from my gf after we returned from S.F......

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...sanfranmap.jpg

Sweet night pics. My favorite is the first one.

"Wall Street of the West," Montgomery Street, San Francisco
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/...d074e37e_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/...d074e37e_b.jpg
"2pm 8-1-10 montgomery street" by pbo31 on Flickr.

^fack I miss the Palace.

What's with the highway ramp to nowhere?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/...96721518_b.jpg

That was one of the old Transbay Terminal bus ramps. That ramp will soon be demolished as part of the terminal's replacement.

From National Geographic. It's big, so I'll just post the link. You can save it as a wallpaper.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ph...per-4_1600.jpg

Here's the page it was on.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/in...2009-wallpaper

City and Golden Gate Bridge in fog.

http://photography.nationalgeographi...45_600x450.jpg

^Oh my gosh. That's both funny and scary.

:previous: That last photo makes me understand for the first time how Lone Mountain got its name. It never has seemed to me much of a mountain (it's pretty much the site of the University of San Francisco, a private Jesuit college, now) nor particularly "alone". But you can see what the folks who named it were seeing in the photo.

I love San Franciscos history so here are some more pictures and an amazing video from 1905 and then the 40s.

• Video Link

• Video Link

http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/a...sfbwreggie.jpg
1980s

http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/a...cisco1851a.jpg
1851 Portsmouth Square

http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/a...nsf-large1.jpg
1898 Chinatown

All the photos were from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_history

Amazing shots, guys. Thanks for finding and posting them!

FYI: that statue photo was taken down at Stanford. While more rare, there are photos from all over the area showing the effects of that quake. I recall one of a fence up my way that shifted several feet that day. Of course the SF pix are most dramatic, but the damage was visible for miles around.

Here's a cool shot from Flickr user kuzmacom:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4133/...7b65274f_b.jpg
Source: Flickr.

Time to revive this thread.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6170/...85b12b83_b.jpg
Source: Flickr user sirgious

With a hat tip to Curbed SF, who featured this shot today.

Another that was featured on CurbedSF today:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6105/...e801daa9_b.jpg

Title: Metropolitan, by Flickr user Esther Reyes.

And another from Esther, called Approach:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6056/...a02c14f2_b.jpg

The most beautiful city in the United States; possibly in the world.