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

Spring is here! (Sam Crow photos, 1915) #sfmemory #sfhistory

How about this weather, huh This is Santa Cruz around 1918 a recent scan from the Sam Crow negatives #sfhistory #sfmemory #santacruzbeach

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 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

So calm out there today on my #bikeride

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-...

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

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-...

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

Bay area transit fans take note!

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

Yerba Buena Island, circa 1933 A view from the bay toward early excavation for the Bay Bridge Tunnel #sfhistory

Rena Bransten, my brother’s mother-in-law, was a kind & generous person who always had time for me. Glad I got to spend a couple hours with her recently. Thoughts to my sister-in-law Trish, my niece and nephew, along with the rest of Bransten Family & friends whose lives she touched.

San Francisco & Peninsula Friends! NEW TIME 6pm - This time for sure, really your last chance to see my great niece Mckenna (McDub) & her fantastic Archbishop Mitty High School team play in San Francisco Friday night, Feb 27 6pm on the hilltop at USF 's Memorial Gym

Check out what Berkeley's downtown station used to look like! Replacing an earlier shack from 1876, this depot (erected 1890s?) greeted commuters, clad in bowler hats, at the start of their journey to SF. As the city grew, it was replaced by an even bigger station in 1908 — topic for a later post!

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

Fantastic Book! Highly recommended!you will read it over and over again

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)

Greetings from Winter wonderland ( tried walking down to the creek but gave up 30 feet in, no boots!)

Made it to Pennsylvania

Golden Gate Park, 1905 The Conservatory of Flowers and the Melvin Earl Cummings (installed 1905). Not sure of the date, but the child, Andrew Crow, was born in 1903 & I think the Conservatory had some glass replaced after 1906. Part of the huge glass negative collection recently acquired. #sfmemory