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'''View of Oakdale and Bayshore Boulevard from slopes of Bernal Heights before Highway 101 was built, c. 1950.'''
'''View of [[Bayshore Blvd with Potrero Hill|Oakdale and Bayshore Boulevard]] from slopes of Bernal Heights before Highway 101 was built, c. 1950.'''


''Photo: San Francisco Planning Commission archives''
''Photo: San Francisco Planning Commission archives''

Revision as of 18:22, 7 August 2011

Unfinished History

Bernlhts$east-of-bernal-1915.jpg

San Bruno and Cortland Ave., 1915, looking north with Bernal Heights rising to the immediate left and Potrero Hill in the distance. Islais Creek wetlands occupy today's Bayshore Blvd. industrial zone. These wetlands also drained Precita Creek, which ran down beneath Army Street on the north side of Bernal Heights. The old H streetcar is visible running along San Bruno Avenue just east of Bernal Hill, just west and above the still un-"developed" wetlands of Islais Creek.

Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA

Bernlhts$islais-wetlands$wetlands itm$islais-wetlands-from-bernal.jpg

Former Wetlands of Islais Creek seen from Bernal Heights (early 20th century)

Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA

Oakdale-pre-fwy-from-Bernal 2999.jpg

View of Oakdale and Bayshore Boulevard from slopes of Bernal Heights before Highway 101 was built, c. 1950.

Photo: San Francisco Planning Commission archives

Bernlhts$cortland-east-1997.jpg

1997 Eastern view from Cortland Avenue over today's industrial zone in the former wetlands. The double-decker freeway in the distance is I-280, which predictably suffered structural damage in the 1989 earthquake due to its construction on former bay mudflats.

photo: Chris Carlsson


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