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Revision as of 16:05, 2 July 2014
Unfinished History
The Interstate-280 freeway was the last major freeway built in San Francisco, and one of the few to escape the broad opposition that came to be known as the Freeway Revolt. The valley through which the freeway runs for much of its San Francisco course was once the Islais Creek before it was put into culverts and eventually covered with San Jose Avenue and Alemany Boulevard.
Monterey Boulevard northeast at San Jose Avenue. Diamond Street enters at left, and Holly Park is in distance--large building is the former Junipero Serra Grammar School, seen here in June 1953.
Photo: SFDPT, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection
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Bernal Avenue (now San Jose Avenue) southwest at St. Mary's Avenue with the Southern Pacific railroad at right, at the southern end of the newly widened Bernal Cut, seen here in 1930.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection
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Bernal Avenue (now San Jose Avenue) southwest at Diamond Street (far right) with Montery Boulevard up hill at left-center, and Joost St. going uphill from right of center, February 22, 1936.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection
Mission Street south over Alemany viaduct, 1926.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection
I-280 freeway under construction at Mission/Alemany viaduct, c. 1965.
Photo: Charles Ruiz collection