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buena vista park was middle earth

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Extremely cool security gate on Ashbury near Waller

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Sutro Tower at 50: From aesthetic “horror” to San Francisco icon

As Sutro Tower turns 50, it’s a nearly universally beloved local icon. But it initially...

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Carol Doda, 1968. Outtake from the film HEAD. #northbeach #monkees #bobrafelson #bertschneider #jacknicholson

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Irving Rosenthal, Low-Profile Force on the Beat Scene, Dies at 91

He published Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs in the late 1950s. The university that oversaw his journal was not pleased with the “Naked Lunch” excerpt.

This happened a few months ago and I’ve been remiss in not posting until now. Iriving Rosenthal represented so much about San Francisco to me. 

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https://www.instagram.com/alexsamuelss/

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Fred Lyon

Ocean Beach from Sutro Heights

San Francisco, 1950's

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After-hours jam session on Cannery Row ( formerly “ Doc Ricketts Lab”) by Fred Lyon.

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https://www.streetcar.org/farewell-to-fabulous-photographer-fred-lyon/

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San Francisco in the 90s. Photos by Chloe D. Sherman

https://www.instagram.com/chloedsherman/

https://www.chloeshermanphotography.com/

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Just a few of Ingeborg Gerdes wonderful photos of the Mission District in the 1980s and early 90s. 

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The Cockettes and other members of Steven Arnold’s San Francisco milieu during the filming of the banquet scene in the Luminous Procuress 

Photo by Ingeborg Gerdes

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Tattoo by nachovelli @ bay ink tattoo (which is actually in san diego?!)

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1967 “a Hobbit’s Eye-view of the Haight Ashberry”

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aardvark books, 2016

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Nocturnal Dream Shows present Midnight Films at the Palace Theatre, February 1970

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daily independent, july 2, 1973