SF's Southern Edge

Unfinished History

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Northerly view from above San Bruno Mountain with railyards and San Francisco dump in foreground, SF city limits not far north of the bottom of the photo.

Photo: San Francisco Planning Commission


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Train coursing the shoreline around San Bruno Mountain at tip of what is now Sierra Point, c. 1926. Brisbane Lagoon hasn't yet been filled as a dump, and there isn't yet any Highway 101.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

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Oyster Point c. 1976.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

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Aerial view southward along the Highway 101 construction corridor in 1955, Brisbane Lagoon still being filled by San Francisco's garbage.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

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