View from Tank Hill toward Mt. Olympus from 1908 to 1980, with a house in the foreground. Watch how the house stays still, but the neigborhood grows around it.
Adolph Sutro's "Triumph of Light" Statue from 1887 to 1980. The first shot is looking west toward Cole Valley, the other two are from Asbury and Clifford Terrace, looking Southeast (where our home is now). Sutro erected what he called a "skyline beacon", modeled after a Belgian work of art commemorating liberty, to mark the exact center of San Francisco. At the dedication, he remarked, “May the light shine from the torch of the Goddess of Liberty to inspire our citizens to do good and noble deeds for the benefit of mankind.”
Lone Mountain and St. Ignatius Church (built in 1912) with Cole Valley in the foreground. In the later images, Lone Mountain all but disappears to make room for the SF College for Women in 1932, becoming Lone Mountain College in 1968, and now a part of the University of San Francisco since 1978.
Cole Valley (née "Cole Gulch") as seen from Mt. Olympus (Upper Terrace) looking west, with Golden Gater Park in the background on the right. What a change 7 years can make!
Sunset Tunnel from construction to inauguration in the 1920s. Currently where the N-Judah runs from Duboce to Cole Valley.
A couple of other cable car shots: one of the old cable car turnaround at Haight/Stanyan, and the other of installing new rails into the street at Carl/Stanyan. It's too bad we don't still have the extensive rail network San Francisco used to have.
