Windmill & U.S. Life Boat Station
Unfinished History
1904 photograph of the Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park built in 1903
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
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 the far western end of Golden Gate Park, c. 1910.
Photo: C. R. collection
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