Then and Now

‘Then and Now’: Great Highway at Point Lobos Avenue

Above: A view of the Great Highway looking south from the foot of Point Lobos Avenue, circa 1920. The Lurline Pier is visible on the beach. Photo courtesy of a private collector/Western Neighborhoods Project/OpenSFHistory.
Below: Between the time the east side of the Great Highway had the block of buildings seen in the “then” photo and the condos that are there now, there was Playland at the Beach, a 10-acre seaside amusement park with rides and other attractions, from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. Photo by Michael Durand.

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