Telegraph Hill, July 4, 1940 Charles Cushman
We love old photographic images, and one of the joys of the Interwebs is that major and minor collections are being digitized and available globally. One we've been referring back to for a few years is the Charles Cushman Collection from the University of Indiana. Cushman was an amateur photographer who's thousands of slides create an archive of America that might have existed today only in our memories. There are some great shots of San Francisco, like the one above. When I first saw it I never thought the structures could still exist.
And then, tootling around Telegraph Hill on Sunday, there they were. Well, some of them. but still, remarkable survivors. The Bay Bridge only has one level, and we don't see too many warships out in the Bay anymore. But the electrical lines have been buried since then. I wish my pictures were as half as good as his.
Union Street, East of Montgomery, September 24, 2008
Charles Cushman Collection
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Those two houses (on the left) are two of the very oldest houses still standing in San Francisco, built in the 1860s.
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