Lake Merced 100 years ago: Difference between revisions

(added new photo)
(changed credit on '''Skyline Boulevard north at Great Highway. Lake Merced at right, Fleishhacker Zoo at left, Sunset district straight ahead, March 15, 1937photo which came from CR collection)
 
Line 41: Line 41:
'''Skyline Boulevard north at Great Highway. Lake Merced at right, Fleishhacker Zoo at left, Sunset district straight ahead, March 15, 1937.'''
'''Skyline Boulevard north at Great Highway. Lake Merced at right, Fleishhacker Zoo at left, Sunset district straight ahead, March 15, 1937.'''


''Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection''
''Photo: SFDPW, courtesy C.R. collection''


<hr>
<hr>

Latest revision as of 17:02, 20 September 2016

Unfinished History

95-lake-merced-with-flume.jpg

Lake Merced, c. 1895, with fresh water flume under construction.

Photo: Shaping San Francisco

Sfsuingl$lake-merced-1868.jpg

Lake Merced and Laguna Puerca with the Ocean View racetrack and surrounding farms. In this "bird's-eye view" from 1868 the artist shows the lake draining to the ocean, and small farms sprouting in the surrounding area.

Image: George H. Goddard, Library of Congress

Sfsuingl$lake-merced-map-1872.jpg

1872 map of Lake Merced showing the Ocean House Race Course and Lake House, which is at the juncture of Lake Merced and the East-West road.

map: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

Lake-House-1870s.jpg

Lake House in 1870.

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

Lake-merced-in-distance.jpg

Lake Merced in undeveloped landscape, far from nearby roads, c. 1900s.

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

Lake-Merced-1921.jpg

Car selling photo at Lake Merced, 1921.

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

Skyline-Blvd-north-at-Great-Highway-Lake-Merced-at-right-Fleishhacker-Zoo-ar-left-Sunset-ahead-March-15-1937-SFDPW.jpg

Skyline Boulevard north at Great Highway. Lake Merced at right, Fleishhacker Zoo at left, Sunset district straight ahead, March 15, 1937.

Photo: SFDPW, courtesy C.R. collection


Tours-water.gif Continue Water Tour

Prev. Document  Next Document