Visitors to the California Academy of Sciences are familiar with the towering Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton greeting guests at the main entrance. Now, that T. rex has new dinosaur friends in the outdoor gardens.
Comparison photos of 45th Avenue Between Kirkham and Lawton Streets 110 years apart.
Comparison photos of California and Cornwall Streets at Sixth Avenue 93 years ago.
Comparison photos of Lincoln Way at 41st Avenue 112 years apart.
Comparison photos of the Chutes on Fulton Street at 10th Avenue 122 years apart.
Several months ago, we got through Golden Gate Park’s concert season, and the grassy meadows and fields were in recovery mode from the stages, tents, beer stalls and tens of thousands of tromping, dancing feet of the Outside Lands and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festivals.
Comparison photos of Frederick Street at Arguello Boulevard 116 years apart.
Comparison photos of Lurline Pier and Cliff House 125 years apart.
Comparison photos of the Western End of Taraval Street 102 years apart.
Playland at the Beach was a 10-acre amusement park located on the western edge of the Richmond District near Ocean Beach. Over the years, it has acquired a mythical status among the City’s westside residents. The countless anecdotes detailing the whimsical attractions of its heyday as well as its Labor Day closure in 1972 have only added to the allure of this former Bay Area staple.
Comparison photos of Balboa Street at Fifth Avenue 75 years apart.
Comparison photos of Seventh and Eighth Avenues 54 years apart.
They met on the dance floor of the Avenue Ballroom on Taraval Street. Etta Hallock was an instructor, Bill Lafferty a student. She liked Bill because he was not pompous like other men she had met. “He was just Bill.”
Sculptor Leilah Babirye fled Uganda nearly a decade ago out of necessity. Being an LGBTQIA+ activist and a lesbian in a country with life-or-death anti-gay laws was dangerous.
Comparison photos of Balboa and La Playa Streets 89 years apart.
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 