I AM NOT A HOMOPHONE. THEIR ONE. I do amuse myself.

Sad News: "Shacktivist" Jane Cryan, the "Cottage Lady, has died. I'm glad to have gotten to know her, she set some of us on a lifelong passage exploring the history of San Francisco SF Chron gift link: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Thanks for all the love for SFMemory! I'm heading out of town (we have a house sitter!) Currently there are 11,496 images available on the site. please take a look, search an interest or location, and send me a message using the forms on the site. I'll get back to you! #sfhistory sfmemory.org

Redwood City, Anti-Napalm Day, May 28, 1966 It took a bit of work to figure these out. John Ungaretti was 16 when he took them. They marched from Sequoia High School to the port where Napalm was produced. Carleton Goodlett, Robert Scheer, & others spoke to the crowd. more at sfmemory.org #sfhistory

Crystal Palace Market, 1940 The Crystal Palace Market was at 8th & Market, not sure what Orange Kremo was or how it was non-fattening #sfmemory #sfhistory

Of course this is massively disappointing. But one positive takeaway: We have a cadre of excellent sports journalists in the market who refused to accept Posey’s shameful dodging. Led by @annkillion.bsky.social, heard first in this clip, who is both a badass and a civic treasure. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Steuart near Market 1985 Juan Bautista de Anza Statue, Embarcadero Freeway in background. Two people posed on statue. OK, one of them is me. It felt like such a backwater back then, no people, no ferries The fountain & the plaza were there, but Market Street was a dead end. #sfmemory #sfhistory

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915 SF's World's Fair: the last of the Sam Crow glass negatives showing the PPIE. 220 in all. There are a lot of aviation shots plus a few surprises including one of Harry Houdini sfmemory.org/search/index... #sfmemory #sfhistory

Textbook rbi double

SFMemory Update! 250 Glass Plates from photographer Sam Crow! Showing never seen early aviation, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1906 Earthquake, surprise celebrities, & more #sfmemory #sfhistory sfmemory.org/Update/2026-...

Still working on the Sam Crow glass negatives, thought you'd like to see a couple of the man himself. I expect to have another 200 or so online by the end of the week. keep checking back! #sfmemory #sfhistory - sfmemory.org/Gallery/Sam_...

Black cod, broccoli & corn cakes, peach salsa.

Harry Bridges & The Hallinans, circa 1949 It Pays to Keep Looking Department. Revisiting a box of 4x5 negatives by news photographer Aaron Rubino. I came across this shot of Attorney Vincent Hallinan with harry Bridges and a couple of helpers. Terrence (Kayo) Hallinan at right. #sfmemory #sfhistory

checking in with @bittergiantsfan.bsky.social , have I missed anything?

SFMemory Update! 211 images 60's 70s protests, gatherings, 1960 Grant Avenue Fair, International Hotel, transit, a lot of stuff I've been sitting on. #sfhistory #sfmemory sfmemory.org/Update/2026-...

Golden Gate Park, Dec 1899 I've been head down scanning the last few days, working on amazing 9x6 glass negatives from DH Wulzen (look him up) given to me by his grandson. Many familiar scenes, but real joy is in the details. My white whale (look it up) is the Cider Press communal cup. #sfmemory

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I can take you to the dog races, but you have to share the seat. 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. #sfmemory #sfhistory #worldsfair

Hating on the Vaillancourt Fountain was always very popular, but I actually loved it. 1985 pen and watercolor.

27th & Dolores, 1942 Southern Pacific's old main line was built in the late 1860's partly through undeveloped land that became Noe Valley & the Mission District. The railroad crossed Dolores & 27th intersection on large bridge. The last train ran in 1941 & the steel was recycled in 1942 #sfmemory

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

3 views of Embarcadero Plaza 1966, 1974, 2026 Vaillancourt Fountain #sfmemory #sfhistory

SFMemory Update! 179 color slides including the Last Days of Playland and Demolition... ok this set is sad. #sfhistory #sfmemory #sanfrancisco sfmemory.org/Update/2026-...

Every time they show this dog on the scoreboard (going back years) the #SFGiants blow the game. Sultan is a jinx and very bad boy. #bansultan

Last Days of Playland, 1968-72 Scanning about 100 slides and trying to sort out the dates, both of these have the same processing date of Sept 1972, one is obviously earlier & was reprinted on a Kodachrome Duplicate slide mount. I mean, there weren't 2 of these benches. #sfhistory #playland

El Crystal School, San Bruno Miss Watson's 2nd grade class 1971. I remember most of these kids' names, but not all. Can you find me? My niece was PTA secretary when this school closed a few years back and she retrieved dozens of binders showing class photos for decades. #sanbruno

Cam gets it

taking a break from the 1910s and heading for the decrepit 1970s #playland

Sam Crow, front page of the print edition of the @sfchronicle.com Thanks to @peterhartlaub.bsky.social for bringing these out into the light #sfmemory #sfhistory

Absolutely terrific photos from the Samuel Crow collection! I have to put my own spin on this: a then-and-now view of the rustic bridge at Blue Heron Lake—featuring my favorite model, Dottie!

Sam Crow Alert! www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti... Thanks as always to @peterhartlaub.bsky.social for helping to bring these images to the public. #sfmemory #sfhistory

Last Days of Playland, 1972 Here’s a sneak peek at a wonderful and sad set of slides I just received. #sfmemory #sfhistory #sanfrancisco

Draft-dodging Donald loves sending other people's children to war.

Today is 120th Anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The fire that followed burned three days and destroyed the central core of the city. Take a minute today & think about what it took to start over from scratch #sfmemory #sfhistory #1906earthquake

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

Working to identify the women swimmers in this recently acquired glass negative collection (~1200 plates) These are girls from the Young Ladies Institute & their instructor Myrtle Wright, who swam the Golden Gate and set a record around Seal Rocks #sfmemory #sfhistory sfmemory.org/search/index...

SFMemory Update! 257 Sam Crow glass plates 1910-1920. Many about the Red Cross, WWI, Golden Gate Park, but really striking here are the portraits both sassy and sweet. #sfmemory #sfhistory sfmemory.org/Update/2026-...

Sam Crow, circa 1912 A couple portraits of the guy who took all these pictures I've been posting. He was a news photographer for the SF Examiner and Bulletin for over 30 years. #sfmemory #sfhistory

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

Giants 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

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

Sutro Baths, circa 1915 Teen swimmers with their instructor lined up outside the Sutro Baths near the settling pond #sfhistory #sfmemory

My great niece McDub moving on www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annki...

Thanks Google! I have these shots of a red cross building on McAllister under construction around 1918 along with groups of workers wearing ribbons that say "I have given my services to the red cross" so I search google for that phrase & it found nothing, but offered some alternative searches

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

Still trying to figure out where this was, it was a small building somewhere near the Ferry Building.

I love immediacy of this, Based on a lot of his negatives I've looked at today, I think this photographer, Sam Crow, was experimenting with high speed photography. I don't have a lot of those examples online yet, but here's a link to what I do have sfmemory.org/search/index...

open.substack.com/pub/stackofp... I'm remembering my upbringing as a 3rd Gen Demoro Photog. And as a female photog in what was once much more of a "man's world" & how that shaped my thinking about who I am as an image-making person in the 21stCentury. #photography #history #bayarea ##sanfrancisco