Then and Now

‘Then and Now’: Lurline Pier and Cliff House

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Above: The view looking north on Ocean Beach circa 1900 shows the second Cliff House and Sutro Heights. The Victorian-style building survived the 1906 earthquake but burned down in 1907. The Lurline Pier is in the foreground. The pier held a pipeline that pumped saltwater to the Olympic Club downtown on Post Street between Taylor and Mason streets. Photo courtesy of a private collector/Western Neighborhoods Project/OpenSFHistory.
Below: The modern Cliff House has been closed since the COVID-19 pandemic. A new restaurant is scheduled to open in its place in 2025. Photo by Michael Durand.

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  1. It it a coincidence that the Parks Dept sought to monetize the Cliff House, in the process destroying an SF institution, at roughly the same time the developer-funded Wiener/Breed/Engardio dark money PAC machine began their plans to monetize and develop the Outer Sunset, first with JFK and then Prop K?

    They’ve ignored districts’ needs and the will of residents so completely, what’s next? Redevelop the VA into condos? A dark money funded sea-wall billboard? Some crass “art” nobody wanted or asked for from Fnnch? How can the dishonest and unaccountable developer interests that run “moderate” SF politics ruin the west side further? Nighttime rock concerts? Strobe lights in the park? Disgusting.

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