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San Francisco, then and now
The gold rush, the earthquakes, the civil rights movement, the Summer of Love, the rise of Silicon Valley. Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the superb cities of the world.
by David Levene , photographer; Jim Powell , picture editor; Parker Yesko, researcher; Daan Louter , development
The gold rush, the earthquakes, the civil rights movement, the Summer of Love, the rise of Silicon Valley. Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the fine cities of the world.
by David Levene , photographer; Jim Powell , picture editor; Parker Yesko, researcher; Daan Louter , development
San Francisco, then and now
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Thursday four February two thousand sixteen 15.00 GMT Last modified on Friday fourteen July two thousand seventeen 21.05 BST
1. Gold rush abandoned ships
1849: Vessels lie abandoned in San Francisco Bay. Entire crews discarded their ships for the gold fields. They were eventually salvaged for their wood and furnishings.
Seen from the south end of Yerba Buena Cove toward Telegraph Hill, this is one of the oldest known photographs of San Francisco. From the Gold Rush in one thousand eight hundred forty nine onwards, the cove was packed in and downtown San Francisco was built on top.
August 1873: Inventor Andrew Hallidie (1836-1900) tests the very first cable car system near the top of Nob Hill at Clay and Jones streets. Hallidie is standing at the controls with a beard and moustache.
May 1889: View of the foothills from the porch roof of Captain Joseph C Merithew’s ranch, now De Anza College, looking south-west over McClellan Road. In one thousand nine hundred seventy six Apple opened its very first office in the city, and in two thousand sixteen a fresh Two.8m square-foot complicated designed by Tormentor Norman Foster will consolidate Apple headquarters into one giant glass ring.
April 1906: Arnold Genthe’s photographic equipment was demolished by the major San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Undeterred, he went to his dealer, borrowed a 3A Kodak Special and documented the fire and aftermath. This photograph is from Sacramento Street at Miles Place (now Miller Place) near Powell Street.
1906: Unlike many other historic buildings in the city, the Ferry Building survived the one thousand nine hundred six earthquake and fire with little harm.
1922: Lombard Street during the construction of the famous escalating road, which has been called “the crookedest street in the world”.
1937: Fishermen on Baker Beach love the view of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction.
December 1941: As a protection against possible Japanese air raids, sandbags are piled against the Home Telephone Company building.
9. Internment of Japanese Americans
March 1942: Tatsuro Masuda, the holder of the Wanto Co grocery store, put up this sign following Japan’s unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. President Franklin D Roosevelt had ordered the incarceration of at least 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in camps across the US.
June 1945: The lobby of the Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart with a mural signifying early furniture craftsmanship. Twitter moved into the building in 2012.
May 1953: Groundbreaking for Kodak Processing Laboratory on Page Mill Road, now the location for the offices of Foley & Lardner LLP. Eastman Kodak (commonly known as Kodak) was the 2nd tenant at the Stanford Industrial Park (now the Stanford Research Park); its managers dreamed to bring light technology-focused industry onto Stanford University-land. The technology-based companies expanded into the surrounding town and cities, which is now termed Silicon Valley.
1967: A youthfull duo stand on the sidewalk by the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets during the ‘Summer of Love’.
October 1967: The largest anti-Vietnam War protest in the San Francisco Bay Area took place in downtown Oakland. The protesters proclaimed it ‘Stop the Draft Week’ and blockaded the Oakland Induction Center, where army recruits would arrive. Mace was used for the very first time, along with police batons, to lift the siege.
14. Occupation of Alcatraz
November 1969: Native Americans play ball games outside the prison walls during their occupation of Alcatraz island. The Alcatraz penitentiary closed in March one thousand nine hundred sixty three and several activists from the Crimson Power movement claimed the island qualified for reclamation to the Native American people under the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
April 1969: While a shotgun-armed policeman checks a bar, a youthfull boy with a baseball bat determines it’s time to leave during a disturbance in the Fillmore district where police arrested several members of the Black Panthers. The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland to challenge police fierceness.
1979: Langton inbetween Folsom and Harrison streets. When Janet Delaney photographed South of Market in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the area attracted the working class, immigrants, artists and a burgeoning gay community, but was being primed for redevelopment and gentrification.
August 1980: Two dudes smooch at the Castro Street Fair. The area was one of the very first openly gay neighborhoods in the US and remains a significant community for LGBT events and activism.
1981: Lathe Implement Works, thirty seven Clementina Street. The one thousand nine hundred eighty nine Loma Prieta earthquake bruised the elevated double-decker freeway forcing its closure and demolition.
Nineteen. Googleplex, Mountain View
March, 1983: View northwards, from Charleston Road, of the farm and dump that covered much of the area near Mountain View’s shoreline. The land was developed in one thousand nine hundred ninety four and was originally the location for the headquarters of Silicon Graphics. Since two thousand three the complicated has been leased by Google, which now falls under the tech conglomerate Alphabet.
Photographer: David Levene
Picture editor and researcher: Jim Powell
Assistant researcher: Parker Yesko
Design and development: Daan Louter
Archive photography: 1. CSU Archives/Everett Collection/Alamy; Two. Corbis; Trio. California History Center/De Anza College; Four. Arnold Genthe/Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Photos; Five. Library of Congress; 6. San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library; 7. Underwood Archives/Getty Pics; 8. Jack Rice/AP; 9. Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress; Ten. Moulin Studios/San Francisco Public Library; 11. Stanford Historical Photograph Collection/Stanford University Library; 12. Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Pics; 13. William James Warren/Science Faction/Corbis; 14/15. AP; 16. Janet Delaney; 17. Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos; Legitimate. Janet Delaney; Nineteen. City of Mountain View.
Thanks to LUMINA for assistance with the gold rush photograph.
San Francisco, then and now, US news, The Guardian
San Francisco, then and now
The gold rush, the earthquakes, the civil rights movement, the Summer of Love, the rise of Silicon Valley. Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the fine cities of the world.
by David Levene , photographer; Jim Powell , picture editor; Parker Yesko, researcher; Daan Louter , development
The gold rush, the earthquakes, the civil rights movement, the Summer of Love, the rise of Silicon Valley. Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the good cities of the world.
by David Levene , photographer; Jim Powell , picture editor; Parker Yesko, researcher; Daan Louter , development
San Francisco, then and now
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Thursday four February two thousand sixteen 15.00 GMT Last modified on Friday fourteen July two thousand seventeen 21.05 BST
1. Gold rush abandoned ships
1849: Vessels lie abandoned in San Francisco Bay. Entire crews discarded their ships for the gold fields. They were eventually salvaged for their wood and furnishings.
Seen from the south end of Yerba Buena Cove toward Telegraph Hill, this is one of the oldest known photographs of San Francisco. From the Gold Rush in one thousand eight hundred forty nine onwards, the cove was packed in and downtown San Francisco was built on top.
August 1873: Inventor Andrew Hallidie (1836-1900) tests the very first cable car system near the top of Nob Hill at Clay and Jones streets. Hallidie is standing at the controls with a beard and moustache.
May 1889: View of the foothills from the porch roof of Captain Joseph C Merithew’s ranch, now De Anza College, looking south-west over McClellan Road. In one thousand nine hundred seventy six Apple opened its very first office in the city, and in two thousand sixteen a fresh Two.8m square-foot elaborate designed by Tormentor Norman Foster will consolidate Apple headquarters into one giant glass ring.
April 1906: Arnold Genthe’s photographic equipment was demolished by the major San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Undeterred, he went to his dealer, borrowed a 3A Kodak Special and documented the fire and aftermath. This photograph is from Sacramento Street at Miles Place (now Miller Place) near Powell Street.
1906: Unlike many other historic buildings in the city, the Ferry Building survived the one thousand nine hundred six earthquake and fire with little harm.
1922: Lombard Street during the construction of the famous escalating road, which has been called “the crookedest street in the world”.
1937: Fishermen on Baker Beach love the view of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction.
December 1941: As a protection against possible Japanese air raids, sandbags are piled against the Home Telephone Company building.
9. Internment of Japanese Americans
March 1942: Tatsuro Masuda, the possessor of the Wanto Co grocery store, put up this sign following Japan’s unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. President Franklin D Roosevelt had ordered the incarceration of at least 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in camps across the US.
June 1945: The lobby of the Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart with a mural indicating early furniture craftsmanship. Twitter moved into the building in 2012.
May 1953: Groundbreaking for Kodak Processing Laboratory on Page Mill Road, now the location for the offices of Foley & Lardner LLP. Eastman Kodak (commonly known as Kodak) was the 2nd tenant at the Stanford Industrial Park (now the Stanford Research Park); its managers desired to bring light technology-focused industry onto Stanford University-land. The technology-based companies expanded into the surrounding town and cities, which is now termed Silicon Valley.
1967: A youthful duo stand on the sidewalk by the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets during the ‘Summer of Love’.
October 1967: The largest anti-Vietnam War protest in the San Francisco Bay Area took place in downtown Oakland. The protesters proclaimed it ‘Stop the Draft Week’ and blockaded the Oakland Induction Center, where army recruits would arrive. Mace was used for the very first time, along with police batons, to lift the siege.
14. Occupation of Alcatraz
November 1969: Native Americans play ball games outside the prison walls during their occupation of Alcatraz island. The Alcatraz penitentiary closed in March one thousand nine hundred sixty three and several activists from the Crimson Power movement claimed the island qualified for reclamation to the Native American people under the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
April 1969: While a shotgun-armed policeman checks a bar, a youthfull boy with a baseball bat determines it’s time to leave during a disturbance in the Fillmore district where police arrested several members of the Black Panthers. The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland to challenge police fierceness.
1979: Langton inbetween Folsom and Harrison streets. When Janet Delaney photographed South of Market in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the area attracted the working class, immigrants, artists and a burgeoning gay community, but was being primed for redevelopment and gentrification.
August 1980: Two fellows smooch at the Castro Street Fair. The area was one of the very first openly gay neighborhoods in the US and remains a significant community for LGBT events and activism.
1981: Lathe Contraption Works, thirty seven Clementina Street. The one thousand nine hundred eighty nine Loma Prieta earthquake bruised the elevated double-decker freeway forcing its closure and demolition.
Nineteen. Googleplex, Mountain View
March, 1983: View northwards, from Charleston Road, of the farm and dump that covered much of the area near Mountain View’s shoreline. The land was developed in one thousand nine hundred ninety four and was primarily the location for the headquarters of Silicon Graphics. Since two thousand three the elaborate has been leased by Google, which now falls under the tech conglomerate Alphabet.
Photographer: David Levene
Picture editor and researcher: Jim Powell
Assistant researcher: Parker Yesko
Design and development: Daan Louter
Archive photography: 1. CSU Archives/Everett Collection/Alamy; Two. Corbis; Trio. California History Center/De Anza College; Four. Arnold Genthe/Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Pictures; Five. Library of Congress; 6. San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library; 7. Underwood Archives/Getty Pics; 8. Jack Rice/AP; 9. Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress; Ten. Moulin Studios/San Francisco Public Library; 11. Stanford Historical Photograph Collection/Stanford University Library; 12. Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Pics; 13. William James Warren/Science Faction/Corbis; 14/15. AP; 16. Janet Delaney; 17. Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos; Legal. Janet Delaney; Nineteen. City of Mountain View.
Thanks to LUMINA for assistance with the gold rush photograph.
