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'''This photo shows the streetcar tracks of the #7 line in Golden Gate Park, c. 1903.'''
'''This photo shows the streetcar tracks of the #7 line in Golden Gate Park, c. 1903.'''


It is looking south from just inside GGP at Fulton & LaPlaya. The Dutch windmill is at the left of the photo;  the buildings on the right are the old Coast Guard station/housing (no longer there). The #7 terminal was at Playland;  from there it traveled south along LaPlaya, crossed Fulton and entered GGP and traveled along a right-of-way, to a tunnel under (what is now) JFK Dr., which is the tunnel visible directly ahead in the photo, south to a bridge (no longer there) over South Drive, then turned east onto Lincoln Way, and onto Haight, etc. The old streetcar right-of-way is still there as a dirt path, as is the tunnel under JFK drive, passing behind the Beach Chalet. <br>''Thanks to Andrew Mihailovsky for this extended caption''
It is looking south from just inside GGP at Fulton & LaPlaya. The Dutch windmill is at the left of the photo;  the buildings on the right are the old Coast Guard station/housing (no longer there). The #7 terminal was at Playland;  from there it traveled south along LaPlaya, crossed Fulton and entered GGP and traveled along a right-of-way, to a tunnel under (what is now) JFK Dr., which is the tunnel visible directly ahead in the photo, south to a bridge (next photo) (no longer there) over South Drive, then turned east onto Lincoln Way, and onto Haight, etc. The old streetcar right-of-way is still there as a dirt path, as is the tunnel under JFK drive, passing behind the Beach Chalet. <br>''Thanks to Andrew Mihailovsky for this extended caption''


''Photo: C. R. collection''
''Photo: C. R. collection''

Revision as of 00:56, 10 October 2016

Unfinished History

Ggpk$windmill-1904.jpg

1904 photograph of the Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park built in 1903

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

Train-tracks-in-backyard-sunset-or-west-portal-nd.jpg

This photo shows the streetcar tracks of the #7 line in Golden Gate Park, c. 1903.

It is looking south from just inside GGP at Fulton & LaPlaya. The Dutch windmill is at the left of the photo; the buildings on the right are the old Coast Guard station/housing (no longer there). The #7 terminal was at Playland; from there it traveled south along LaPlaya, crossed Fulton and entered GGP and traveled along a right-of-way, to a tunnel under (what is now) JFK Dr., which is the tunnel visible directly ahead in the photo, south to a bridge (next photo) (no longer there) over South Drive, then turned east onto Lincoln Way, and onto Haight, etc. The old streetcar right-of-way is still there as a dirt path, as is the tunnel under JFK drive, passing behind the Beach Chalet.
Thanks to Andrew Mihailovsky for this extended caption

Photo: C. R. collection

Windmill-streetcar-and-horse-drawn-carriages-at-ocean-end-of-GG-Park-c-1910.jpg

Windmill, streetcar and horse-drawn carriages at the far western end of Golden Gate Park, c. 1910.

Photo: C. R. collection

Ggpk$dutch-windmill-1999.jpg

Dutch Windmill, restored in the 1980s, pumps water through the park as it sits majestically near the Ocean, above the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Gardens.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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