'''View from Buena Vista Peak in 1886.'''
...is San Francisco's fourth highest hill and boasts a commanding view of the city. One doesn't have to climb Buena Vista's 569 feet to recognize that it was
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...sh [[Old Cemeteries in the City|Cemetery]] in 1876. Opened in 1860, closed in 1888, most remains moved from 1890–1895.'''
'''The old [[Germans vs. Poles|Jewish]] Cemetery c. 1880, reverse view of the 1880 view below of Mission Park (later called Dolores Park) and cemetery.''
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'''Interurban streetcar south of San Bruno Mountain in San Mateo, c. 1940s.'''
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...ential, Commercial, & University Neighborhoods", originally published in ''The Argonaut'', Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1993''
'''Laurel Hill Cemetery during the 1890s.'''
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'''North West Aerial View of the Richmond District in 1901.'''<br> ''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''
...t Sand Waste" was just inhabited by [[Cemeteries at foot of Lone Mountain| cemeteries]].
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''by Renee Renaud in'' The Richmond ReView, ''February 1989''
'''Odd Fellows Cemetery with Lone Mountain looming in background, circa 1885.'''
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[[Image:Pt. Lobos Road now Geary St near Presidio Avenue; tollhouse graves in background Calvary Cemetery 1860s wnp37.01364.jpg|800px]]
'''Pt. Lobos Road now Geary Street near Presidio Avenue; tollhouse, graves in background Calvary Cemetery, 1860s'''
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''by Renee Renaud,'' The Richmond ReView, ''November 1989''
'''A cartoon from the ''Richmond Banner''.'''
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...ential, Commercial, & University Neighborhoods", originally published in ''The Argonaut'', Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1992''
...f the center figure) standing on Buena Vista Heights, with the Golden Gate in distance behind that, October 31, 1886. '''
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'''Chutes at Fulton and 10th, from a postcard sent to the Netherlands in 1904.'''
...e Richmond District was home to the "largest pleasure resort in America" - the Chutes!
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'''Pet Cemetery in the Presidio, mid-1990s.'''
...s, ranks, and serial numbers of otherwise indistinguishable fallen heroes. The atmosphere exuded by such places--even by first-rate ones like Arlington Na
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...ere filled except the Chain of Lakes, and manmade bodies of water replaced the natural lakes.
...he original fresh water lakes east of sand ridges, one near the ocean, and the other that later was reconfigured into "Chain of Lakes" near 41st Avenue.''
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...meals and other accommodations can be obtained. This hotel is located on the banks of a stream, where a lake has been formed and fresh water bathing and
...re past Sierra point, over Six-mile hill and into the city again by way of the San Bruno road and Folsom street.
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...gave way to prepare the route for electrification. (''Charles Smallwood, "The White Front Cars of San Francisco" 1978)
(Golden Gate without bridge in background)
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''based on the work of Dr. Weirde, with additions from Stuart Coulthard and Chris Carlsson
Southbound streetcar from Southern Pacific bridge in Colma, 1947.'''
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...in foreground and Mission Street at right. Westlake District is open area in distance, c. 1930.'''
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'''The Neptune Society Columbarium in the Richmond, 1995.'''
...to swing open for you like horror-movie doors, then slam shut behind you, the dull clang ringing out an inhuman "gotcha!"
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'''Photo from directly above Buena Vista Park in 1948. The Panhandle is still a roadway, and Corona Heights is still a scarred quarry.
...the city park system. They paid squatters $88,250 to relinquish claims to the hilltop.
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[[Image:mission$snow-in-mission-1887.jpg]]
...his is the [[Shotwell Architectural Tour|600 block of Shotwell Street]] in the Mission.'''
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'''Mission Dolores
in 1876'''
<blockquote>''
The Graves of a Lynched Gambler and
the Whore-mistress who Loved Him. Mission Dolores Cemetery. Enter through Missi
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