Bernal Cut

Unfinished History

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Southern Pacific Railroad entering Bernal Cut as seen from Richland-Miguel overpass, April 5, 1922.

Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection

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View north of Bernal Cut from same place, on same April day in 1922.

Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection

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Train passing through Bernal Cut near Milton Street, 1905.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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Looking south in Bernal Cut near Charles Street, 1905.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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Railroad passing Bernal Cut, 1908.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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Looking south through the Bernal Cut, pre-1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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Widening the Bernal Cut to make it a car route too, 1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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Bernal Cut at Richland Avenue overpass, October 18, 1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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Bernal Cut, Richland Avenue, Miguel Street Bridge and Highland Avenue Bridge, October 18, 1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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San Jose Avenue southwest at Dolores and Randall. Mission Street at back left, Highland overpass in distance. This was opening day for the newly widened Bernal Cut, April 16, 1930.

Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection

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Bernal Cut looking north from Rousseau Street, April 1930.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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Three children wander hazardously along the Bernal Cut, c. 1942.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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video composite by Cabrarojo, hat-tip to Burrito Justice

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The actual route of the San Francisco-San Jose Railroad through Noe Valley - 1873 - (David Rumsey Collection)

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Railroad right of way visibly curving through lower Noe Valley in this early 1940s aerial image.

Photo: San Francisco Planning Department


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