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# 1 & 2 from " The last whistle"
# 2 is looking west from I'm sure is
the MS st car trestle over the cut.
[which PG&E found when digging to
inst. a gas line]look closely
and you can see the SP bridge
over the cut at the very end of
the cut. This was all filled in
and is now Alemany & San Jose
Ave.
# 3 Looking north to Lake Merced and
which is now Westlake district
of Daly City. Center of photo
you can clearly see the remnants
of the OSRR from right to left.
FM photo 1947

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Frank -

Thank you for all of your photos but especially #3... special because 1 year after this was shot, I was born and raised in a house in the Outer Sunset District which is in the center of that photograph.

Don
San Francisco, California

Just got to love picture #3, especially if you grew up in Westlake, like I did. That little subdivision in the lower right of the picture is Broadmoor, and a new school was built adjacent to the OS right of way. The ROW was used as a horse trail to connect the stables in Colma to the trails at the beach in Westlake. I used to watch people riding horses right by the window of my classroom, when I should have been paying attention to the schoolwork. In fact, I've ridden that trail myself more than a few times. By the time I bought my own horse and kept it at the stables in Westlake, the trail was gone. Westlake Bowl backed up to it, and then the apartments came.

Before and after pics would be really interesting following this. Thank you for taking the time to post.

HB90MACH Wrote:
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> Before and after pics would be really interesting
> following this. Thank you for taking the time to
> post.

I believe that those new houses on top of the hill in 1947 (in the foreground) are on what is now Louvaine Place... note that the street was not even complete with landscaping, etc. I believe that said photograph; showing Broadmoor on the lower right side, was shot from where the Seton Medical Center; formerly Mary's Help Hospital, stands now. My old-timer friend says it is called St. Francis Hill.

Don
San Francisco, California



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/22/14 21:14 by 2472Don.