Pine Lake

Unfinished History

1947 Department of Public Works map of San Francisco, excerpt showing Pine Lake when it was still labeled "Laguna Puerca" as the Spanish colonists had named it.

Pine Lake, c. 1903.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp28.3667


Pine Lake looking westerly, c. 1910.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp15.658


Pine Lake, originally "Laguna Puerca", in 2008

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Stern Grove Park in 2008.

Photo: Chris Carlsson