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'''Cogswell Polytechnical College, 3000 [[Folsom Street Streetcars 23rd to 25th Streets|Folsom Street]] at 26th Street, Bernal Heights visible in background, looking south, during 1984 demolition.'''
'''[[Henry Cogswell and His Monuments|Cogswell]] Polytechnical College, 3000 [[Folsom Street Streetcars 23rd to 25th Streets|Folsom Street]] at 26th Street, Bernal Heights visible in background, looking south, during 1984 demolition.'''


''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.3396''
''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.3396''

Latest revision as of 21:21, 26 May 2020

Unfinished History

Name over front door not long before demolition of the building, 1984.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.3389

Cogswell Polytechnical College, 3000 Folsom Street at 26th Street, Bernal Heights visible in background, looking south, during 1984 demolition.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.3396

Same view of 26th and Folsom, May 2020. The site is occupied by a predominantly Section 8 subsidized low-income apartment building.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Another view more westerly of 26th and Folsom, 1984.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.3387

Matching view, 2020.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

View from Folsom south of Cesar Chavez (then Army Street), 1984.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.3405

Same view, 2020.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Gilberto Ramirez's mural "Honoring LULAC" from 1975 is destroyed along with the building in 1984.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.3391

Demolition underway, October 1984.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.3392