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Unfinished History

In the 2020s Crissy Field is the center of a burgeoning National Park in what was once the Presidio Military Base. Here are a few images documenting its history of military use, for everything from an airfield to barracks.

Crissy Field in 1955.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.2912

Presidio's Crissy Field, December 1955.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp25.7013

Presidio view from Lincoln Blvd., April 1968 at the height of Vietnam War protests.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp25.1382