Honoring Sandra Wong in SF today is a powerful link to our history. 🇺🇸 Her great-grandfather, Wong Kim Ark, secured birthright citizenship for everyone in the 1898 Supreme Court case.
Seeing that legacy alive in the Bay Area reminds us how deep our roots go. 🌉✨ #WongKimArk #SFHistory #Legacy
Seals Stadium Apr 15, 1958 16th & Bryant, First Giants game in San Francisco, pre-game festivities. Giants and Dodgers lined up on base lines Happy Opening Day! #sfhistory #sfmemory #sfgiants #baseball
Seals Stadium Apr 15, 1958
16th & Bryant, First Giants game in San Francisco, pre-game festivities. Giants and Dodgers lined up on base lines Happy Opening Day! #sfhistory #sfmemory #sfgiants #baseball
a glass negative scan of Private Eddie Conrad holding the "gilded baseball" he retrieved after it was thrown into the crowd at and exhibition game between the Seals and Oaks, in the Presidio July 23, 1917
"His Trophy of the Game" The same photo on Eddie Conrad published in the San Francisco Call July 27, 1917
a news paper clipping describing the scramble for the ball after it was thrown into the crowd but Judge Thomas Graham
Presidio, 1917
A pic of a man in a car holding a baseball??
100s of scans later, same event & cars. Voila! It's Pvt Eddie Conrad who caught the "gilded ball" thrown into the crowd at a game between the Seals & Oaks. He seems very happy, but no word of what he won. #sfhistory #sfmemory #baseball
The city didn't pay a dime
It was the DeDomenico family (Golden Grain Macaroni) who leaned into the SF brand to differentiate their product in 1958
They even paid cable car gripmen a $50 'bonus' to ring the bell during filming
It’s the ultimate lesson in high-value positioning 📈🔔 #SFHistory #SFBay
11 young women in swim suits lined up with their instructor against a wooden wall
Sutro Baths, circa 1915
Teen swimmers with their instructor lined up outside the Sutro Baths near the settling pond #sfhistory #sfmemory
SF will presumably be rerenaming Chesar Chavez St sometime soon.
It was formerly Army St, I doubt anyone wants to go back to that.
(The only historical reason I can find for the name Army St is that there was a Navy St nearby, and it was a cute pairing, but Navy St seems to have disappeared, if […]
Howard Ehmke, Philadelphia A's in the late 1920s
Unknown ballplayer for the 1914 Pacific Coast League Los Angeles Angels at Ewing Field
Opinions Needed
On the left is pitcher Howard Ehmke circa 1928 for the American League Philadelphia Athletics. On the right unknown ballplayer for the 1914 Pacific Coast League Los Angeles Angels. Same Person? #sfhistory #sfmemory #baseball
a woman in a white cotton gown sitting in dune grass
a woman in a white cotton gown dancing in dune grass
a woman in a white cotton gown lying in dune grass
Spring is here! (Sam Crow photos, 1915)
#sfmemory #sfhistory
a boy, Andrew Crow, leaning against a sign reading "Bathers' Lounging Limit" Santa Cruz beach, circa 1918
How about this weather, huh
This is Santa Cruz around 1918
a recent scan from the Sam Crow negatives #sfhistory #sfmemory #santacruzbeach
1915c, A woman in a Sutro Baths bathing suit smiling with the Sutro Baths buildings in the background
Sam Crow Negatives: You can see what we're talking about and everything online here (new uploads will be added to this link) sfmemory.org/search/index... #sfmemory #sfhistory
Nice words from Woody LaBounty about my recent efforts with the amazing Sam Crow negatives. I've recently uploaded 291 of the over 1000 glass negatives #sfhistory #sfmemory www.sanfranciscostory.com/re-exposed/?...
Dead Kennedys Mar 20, 1982 a view from the side of the stage Jello Biafra performing, the crowd had torn off his clothes a crush of people against the stage, David Gallagher (that's me) crawling from the crowd
Dead Kennedys March 1982
That's me crawling onto the stage at the Elite Club. (Fillmore Auditorium) I was shocked to discover this picture while cataloging Greg Gaar's photos back in 2015. (just noticed my then girlfriend near the speaker.) Get Better, Jello Biafra #sanfrancisco #punk #sfhistory
1915c, a woman in riding attire showing off a horse with an English saddle in front of the now demolished Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park, circa 1915
Horses were once a common sight in the park, 2 large stables were nearby. Here Esther Crow shows off her horse in front of the memorial Museum and Dore Vase in the Music Concourse. more: sfmemory.org/Update/2026-... #sfhistory #sfmemory #goldengatepark #sanfrancisco
Sutro Baths, 1910
These (better scans) and about 300 others from photographer Sam Crow are up on the site. take a look #sfmemory #sfhistory sfmemory.org/Update/2026-...
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, three officious looking men in Uniform at the PPIE 1915
PPIE, 1915
The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which took place in what would become our Marina District, had 1000s in photos taken. The latest SFMemory update includes over 100 unusual views of the fair, including this officious front gate staff sfmemory.org/Update/2026-... #sfhistory
Golden Gate Park, circa 1912 A boy, Andrew Crow, posed with the Cider Press fountain in the Music Concourse
SFMemory Update!
291 glass plate negatives from 1910-1920 by photographer Sam Crow. These were stored in a garage for decades until recently scanned. Some remarkable views like I've never seen #sfmemory #sfhistory sfmemory.org/Update/2026-...
View north toward Balboa and Sutro Heights, a Muni 5-McAllister trolley bus at the Playland terminal on La Playa
La Playa & Balboa 1963
Municipal Railway (Muni) Fageol Twin coach trolley bus #656 at the Playland terminal, Sutro Heights in the background. (Roy Proffer Photo) #sfmemory #sfhistory sfmemory.org/Display/sfm0...
Bart Tube Construction, 1967
The over 50 sections of the Bart Tube were constructed at Bethlehem Steel at Potrero Hill, Pier 70. The paint outline at Crane Cove Park doesn’t do them justice. #sfhistory #sfmemory
A gripman and conductor posed with California Street Railroad Car #21 on California near Broderick. The railroad ran from 1878-1884, and this line was extended to Central (now Presidio) Avenue from Fillmore in May 1879.
[Courtesy of a Private Collector / OpenSFHistory, wnp26.493] #SFHistory
Yerba Buena Island, circa 1933
A view from the bay toward early excavation for the Bay Bridge Tunnel #sfhistory
View northeast on Market Street toward 3rd street the Hearst and Call Buildings in the background. 3 dappled white Percheron horses pulling a smoking fire engine while pedestrians look on
Market near 3rd St, circa 1912
3 Percheron horses pull a smoking SF fire engine down Market Street, Photographer Sam Crow was adept at capturing a high speed scene. (scanned from a deteriorating 4"x5" glass negative) #sfmemory #sfhistory
3 smiling women in red cross canteen uniforms sit at a counters plates cups and spoons
Ferry Building, 1918
Three volunteer women smiling at a counter at the Red Cross Canteen in the Ferry Building (I assume) Thousands of Red Cross Canteens were set up in transit stations across the country to welcome home service people from World War I. #sfhistory #sfmemory (Sam Crow glass negative)
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Stopped by Fisherman’s Wharf on my #bikeride to check on the Alioto’s demolition & noticed these windows in Fishermen’s Grotto. I was all, “huh?” Then i found a 1946 shot in my own collection. #sfhistory
EPISODE 08 The Doodler Is out
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San Francisco Chronicle January 28, 1967 "Rites for Air Pioneer W.T. Verney - Funeral services were held yesterday at Cypress lawn cemetery in Colma for flying pioneer Walter T. Verney, a flamboyant entrepreneur whose air service became the cornerstone of United Air Lines in the 1930s . - He was 79. - United called his Varney Air Lines 'the official beginning of scheduled commercial air transportation in the United States' - Mr. Varney, a pilot during World Wat I, came out of the service and opened a flying school in San Mateo, claiming he had 'unlimited optimism about the future of aviation' - "
Turns out Walter was very newsworthy, an early aviator, a WWI flyer, owner of a flying school and service, which was part of a purchase that became United Airlines. 3/3 #sfhistory ... now to figure out who the other folks were.
screen shot of the 1914 California Automobile license plate records https://archive.org/details/regautomo191401unse/page/n2301/mode/2up
Because the CA State Library digitized auto registration records, we can find that the registered owner of the 1910 Pierce Arrow was Walter T. Varney of 903 Ashbury Street. ok, cool, who's he? 2/3 #sfhistory
1914, a crowd of happy men riding on a 1910 Pierce Arrow on the Esplanade at Ocean Beach, San Francisco
Great Highway, 1914
Just a happy group of young men in a car on the Esplanade in front of what would become Playland? But start pulling threads and... 1/3 #sfhistory #sanfrancisco Another from the large glass plate negative collection I recently acquired
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Episode 08 of my True Crime Podcast just dropped. Its a fresh angel on The Doodler case
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