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[[Image:1937 - Attached is a photo of 19th Avenue, looking south towards Lincoln Way. This is prior to 19th Avenue being widened. A street car is visible that once went along Line -7 on Lincoln Way..jpg|720px]] | [[Image:1937 - Attached is a photo of 19th Avenue, looking south towards Lincoln Way. This is prior to 19th Avenue being widened. A street car is visible that once went along Line -7 on Lincoln Way..jpg|720px]] | ||
'''19th Avenue looking south towards Lincoln Way in 1937, prior to the widening of 19th. [[Grand View Peak|Grand View Peak looms in the background around today's 14th and Moraga.''' | '''19th Avenue looking south towards Lincoln Way in 1937, prior to the widening of 19th. [[Grand View Peak|Grand View Peak]] looms in the background around today's 14th and Moraga.''' | ||
''Photo: Private collection'' | ''Photo: Private collection'' | ||
Revision as of 15:19, 29 September 2014
Unfinished History
The Sunset Branch of the Public Library is at the outskirts of civilization in this 1920 photo. The intersection between the boy and the library is 19th and Irving. Jefferson Elementary School would be built later on the same block as the library branch. Sutro Forest looms in background.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
19th Avenue looking south towards Lincoln Way in 1937, prior to the widening of 19th. Grand View Peak looms in the background around today's 14th and Moraga.
Photo: Private collection
This newly electrified shovel (in 1907) replaced the steam shovel that had done so much to alter the landscape of San Francisco from the mid-19th century, seen in the video below.
Photo: courtesy Charles Ruiz collection
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Video of steam shovel digging tunnel, 1917.
Video: Prelinger Archive