Then and Now

‘Then and Now’: Balboa Street and 37th Avenue

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Above: A Shell station at 3598 Balboa St. sat on the northeast corner of 37th Avenue and Balboa. Photo courtesy of a private collector/Western Neighborhoods Project/OpenSFHistory.

Below: Almost nothing in the photo from 74 years ago can be found in this Aug. 27 photo. The tracks in the street are gone and the gas station was replaced by an apartment building. The telephone and power poles are just about all that remain. Photo by Maria Verissimo.

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