Old Photo - Every Picture Tells A Story

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 09:32 pm:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 09:37 pm:

Are there any San Francisco experts out there? This is obviously in the bay area, and I'm assuming perhaps Oakland. Set me straight.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Treace, North FL on Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 10:20 pm:

Jay

Neat picture......yep...lots to that photo....

is that the un-lucky bashful driver peeking from behind? :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 10:22 pm:

Larry, My thoughts were that it's the Pacific North West.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Thode Chehalis Washington on Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 10:47 pm:

There is a Geary St in San Fransisco and Julius Brunton was also in San Fransisco and was instrumental on starting a battery powered radio station there.
http://bayarearadio.org/schneider/kjbs.shtml


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 02:27 am:

I think Jim is on the right track. Furthermore, there is an intersection of Geary and 6th Avenue in San Francisco and 4228 Geary is located at that intersection.

It's very difficult to tell, but I think the photo was taken in San Francisco looking north/northeast towards where the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge is now (it opened in 1956).


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 09:37 am:

I'd like to see how that cable is attached where we can't see it. They must have had another pulley attached to a tree or something to do the pulling.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Aaron Griffey, Hayward Ca. on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 12:27 pm:

I can not think of any place in Oakland where the hills are that close to the beach.
Also Angel Island looks too close to be Oakland.

It was probably taken from Russian Hill looking north, as others have suggested.
Maybe overlooking Fort Mason.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Thode Chehalis Washington on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 01:35 pm:

Looks like it was taken from Simonds Loop in the Persidio. Trees have grown up but the shape of Angel Island in the distance on the right has not changed. Golden Gate on the left in the new photo would be have been behind the trees on the original photo. Of course it was not there yet.


Jim


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Darel J. Leipold on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 05:18 pm:

Willard Battery Co. dates to 1896, Started to make automobile batteries in 1908, In the 1920s, 80% of auto makers used Willard batteries. The company was out of business by 1959. The name is now used by another company. There once was a Willard Co. distributor in Minneapolis.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Strickling on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 08:10 pm:

I think Wile E Coyote tied a rope across the road to try and stop the little truck. Obviously driven by the Road Runner.


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