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- A proliferation ...
- Coal and Gravel Delivery
- RE: Two ears, etc.
- A little quieter these days
- 1100 2nd Street SW
- Shedshrinkflation
- The Long Shed ...
- Trestle
- Pass to the right
- Who's on Second?
- 2nd story story
- Did they get to eat it?
- Two ears, etc.
- I Miss The Smell
- What is that?
- Sauced
- Whose?
- Mrs. Landis
- The location today
- Not the marrying kind
- No kisses in Lititz
- That plate at the near end of the table --
- Poor kid
- Freedom from Want
- Did Mrs. Landis
- Wait. a. minute. here --
- Mrs. Landis
- Shades of Belushi
- Cranberry ... the condiment and the color
- The old man
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Vertigo: 1959
May 1, 1959. "Downtown San Francisco -- California Street East Bay vista from Nob Hill." 8x10 inch acetate negative, photographer unknown. View full size.
CV-41
The aircraft carrier in question is the USS Midway, which was homeported at NAS Alameda. She had just returned from a six-month Westpac Cruise on March 12.
CV in the BG?
Looks like a carrier in the background across the bay? Right where the Hornet museum is today? The image I attached to this shows the area -- the circled dark smudges all could be big ships, but the right half of the dark smudges looks an awful lot like a flat top with its bridge sticking up. Couldn't be the Hornet because that was in the western pacific from April-October 1959.
Church growth
Man alive, that modest little church sure has seen some growth.
[No, it didn't grow into Grace Cathedral, which is also in the 1959 shot. Its south tower is partly visible down the left edge. -tterrace]
Adaptive reuse
The Flood Mansion was gutted by the 1906 fire, and it was restored to become the Pacific Union Club, which it remains to this day.
2:23
Is that a digital clock on top of the Equitable Life building? If so, some time between 1959 and now we forgot how to stop digital clocks from flashing 12:00.
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At the left, the Flood Mansion.
5/1/59 2:23 pm
Well, I'm guessing 2:23, if that's really a "digital" clock display atop the Equitable building.
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