Category:1950s
The Embarcadero Freeway separates the Ferry Building from the city in this 1958 photo. The Ferry Plaza had been a central gathering point for generations of San Franciscans and visitors prior to marching up Market Street.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Pages in category "1950s"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 203 total.
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A
- A City of Small Homes: Making the Mass Surburban City
- A Community That Fights
- A Day's Work: Hunters Point Shipyard Workers, 1940-1945
- A Half Century of Lies
- A History of the Haight Ashbury
- A House for the Future -- Circa 1848
- A Lap Around the Old Track
- Aerial of Ferry building 1958
- Allen Ginsberg
- An Abstract Expressionist Lived Here
- Animals of the Dunes
- Archie Green and New Labor History
- Automobiles Take Over San Francisco Streets
B
- B Men and Automation
- Bachelors on Telegraph Hill in the 1950s
- Bagel Shop
- BARBARY COAST
- BART: Bechtel's Baby
- BAY AREA COUNCIL
- Bay Bridge Artery
- Bayshore views
- Beat Landmarks
- Beatniks
- Before the Castro: North Beach, a Gay Mecca
- Before the I-280 Freeway
- Bernard Maybeck
- BILL BAILEY 1910-1995
- Brief History of Midtown Terrace
- Broadway Boyz of 1950s and 1960s
- Brotherhood Way
- Buena Vista History
C
- C L I F F H O U S E
- Caffé Trieste
- California Labor School
- Candlestick Before and After Stadium Built
- Candlestick Swindle
- Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests
- Centro Social Obrero
- Coffee Gallery
- Coit Tower National Historic Site
- Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway
- Cosmopolitan Liberalism, Harm, and the Profitable Beat Scene
- Cow Palace 1956
D
E
F
G
H
J
K
L
M
- MANILATOWN
- Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
- Marshall Square
- Mattachine: Radical Roots of the Gay Movement
- Mayor Elmer Robinson
- Mayor George Christopher
- Mayor Jack Shelley
- Mechanization on the Waterfront
- Mel Lewis, Big Band Singer
- Midcentury Migrations
- Mission Creek Banana Boats
- Mission District Catholic Liberals Shaped San Francisco's Culture
- Mission Rock
- Mortimer Fleishhacker Jr. Lived Here
- MUNI History III: Financial Problems--The Depression, War and Merger
N
P
- Pat Chin
- Poetry Readings/Reading Poetry in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Portola Observation Pt 1937
- Portsmouth Square: The Plaza
- Post WWII Demise
- Postwar Sex District
- Potrero Hill Views
- Produce Market
- PUBLIC HOUSING
- Public Housing Comes Full Circle
- Publishers as Enemies of the State: City Lights Books
- Purple Onion
S
- Sailors' Union of the Pacific Building
- San Bruno Mountain
- San Francisco Jewish Elite: America's Leading Anti-Zionists
- San Francisco Opera
- San Francisco Symphony Timeline
- Saunders King: S.K.'s Blues
- SAVING SAN FRANCISCO BAY
- Seals Stadium and Hamm's Brewery
- Second Freeway Revolt
- Sewerage
- SF's Farmer's Market
- SF's Jazz Scene
- Shigeyoshi Murao
- Sixth Street
- SOUTH PARK
- South Park 1929 and 1955
- Sunnyside
T
- The 6 Gallery
- The Black Cat Cafe
- The Cadillac Hotel Shaped History of San Francisco
- The Cellar
- THE CHRISTENSEN BROTHERS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
- THE CLOUD HOUSE
- The Copra Dock at Islais Creek: ILWU Oral History
- THE CROCKER-AMAZON
- The Dangerous Beat
- The Dialogue
- The Emergence of the North Beach Beat Scene
- The Epicenter of Crime: The Hunt’s Donuts Story
- The Fillmore: Black SF
- The Freeway Revolt
- The Haight Ashbury
- The Hiring Hall
- The History of Telegraph Hill Dwellers
- The Howl Obscenity Trial
- The Monkey Block
- The People
- The Place
- Tony Wing
- Transbay Terminal
- Trial of the Rincon Annex Murals