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[[Image:Brisbane lagoon sw 1940.jpg]]
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'''Southwest view in 1940 from Bayview Hill across Brisbane Lagoon, site of San Francisco's garbage dump for over 40 years, Highway 101 causeway just taking shape.'''
'''Southwest view in 1950 from Bayview Hill across Brisbane Lagoon, site of San Francisco's garbage dump for over 40 years, Highway 101 causeway just taking shape.'''


''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''
''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''
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''Photo: David Green''
''Photo: David Green''
[[Image:Candlestick Point land fill in preparation for freeway Feb 23 1956 AAF-0674.jpg]]
'''Reverse view, south to north, from edge of San Bruno Mountain looking towards Bayview Hill in distance; Highway 101 causeway under construction, Feb. 23, 1956.'''
''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''




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[[category:Visitacion Valley]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]]
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Revision as of 14:51, 5 August 2014

Unfinished History

Excelvis$visitacion-valley-photo.jpg

Visitacion Valley from McLaren Park, former Brisbane Lagoon in distant flatlands, San Bruno Mountain on right horizon, while in foreground at right edge of photo is the old Geneva Towers, demolished in 1998.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Brisbane-lagoon-from-mclaren1205.jpg

Another view, this one in 2008, of old landfill site in Brisbane Lagoon.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Brisbane lagoon sw 1940.jpg

Southwest view in 1950 from Bayview Hill across Brisbane Lagoon, site of San Francisco's garbage dump for over 40 years, Highway 101 causeway just taking shape.

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

Brisbane lagoon sw 1997.jpg

Same view in 1997.

Photo: David Green

Candlestick Point land fill in preparation for freeway Feb 23 1956 AAF-0674.jpg

Reverse view, south to north, from edge of San Bruno Mountain looking towards Bayview Hill in distance; Highway 101 causeway under construction, Feb. 23, 1956.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library


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