Category:1950s
The Embarcadero Freeway separates the Ferry Building from the city in this 1958 photo. The Ferry Plaza had been a central gathering point for generations of San Franciscans and visitors prior to marching up Market Street.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
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Cinemascope homage to the city of San Francisco made by amateur filmmaker and inventor Tullio Pellegrini.
Video: Prelinger Archive
Pages in category "1950s"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 340 total.
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A
- A City of Small Homes: Making the Mass Surburban City
- A Community That Fights
- A Day's Work: Hunters Point Shipyard Workers, 1940-1945
- A Half Century of Lies
- A History of the Haight Ashbury
- A House for the Future -- Circa 1848
- A Lap Around the Old Track
- Affiliated Colleges: Origins of UCSF
- African American Segregation in San Francisco
- Allen Ginsberg
- An Abstract Expressionist Lived Here
- Animals of the Dunes
- Aquatic Park and Maritime Museum
- Arab Immigration Patterns to San Francisco
- Archie Green and New Labor History
- As the Left Erupted in Protest, Ansel Adams Moved Right
- Automobiles Take Over San Francisco Streets
B
- B Men and Automation
- Bachelors on Telegraph Hill in the 1950s
- Bagel Shop
- BARBARY COAST
- BART: Bechtel's Baby
- Battle for Bodega Bay: The Sierra Club and Nuclear Power, 1958-1964
- BAY AREA COUNCIL
- Bay Area Lost Ballparks
- Bay Bridge Artery
- Bayshore views
- Bayview Hill
- Beat Generation and San Francisco's Culture of Dissent
- Beat Landmarks
- Beatniks
- Bechtel Corporation
- Before the Castro: North Beach, a Gay Mecca
- Before the I-280 Freeway
- Bernard Maybeck
- BILL BAILEY 1910-1995
- Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal
- Bishop James Pike
- Blacks in Baseball
- Bohannon’s Challenge to BART
- Borax King and Key System in East Bay
- BREWERY WORKERS
- Brief History of Midtown Terrace
- Broadway Boyz of 1950s and 1960s
- Brotherhood Way
- Buena Vista History
C
- C L I F F H O U S E
- Caffé Trieste
- California Labor School
- Candlestick Before and After Stadium Built
- Candlestick Cove
- Candlestick Swindle
- Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests
- Cecilia Chiang: Chef as Culture Shaper
- Centro Social Obrero
- Chinese New Year Parade
- Chinese Shrimp Camps Along The Bay
- Chinese Telephone Exchange
- Coffee Gallery
- Coit Tower National Historic Site
- Colombo Market Arch
- Connecting “Blue Tickets” to San Francisco LGBTQ+ Community
- Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway
- Cooperation Among Electronics Firms and Conclusions
- Cosmopolitan Liberalism, Harm, and the Profitable Beat Scene
- Cow Palace
- Crissy Field in Presidio Military Base
D
- Dalmo-Victor and Ampex
- Daughters of Bilitis
- David Meltzer on MUSIC AND POETRY
- David Meltzer on THE BEAT GENERATION
- Decommissioned: A Mighty Shipyard 1941-1947
- Decommissioned: After the War 1946-1969
- Decommissioned: Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory 1946-1969
- Del Monte Foods
- Diamond Heights
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap at Hunters Point
- Doggie Diner
- Dolores Park-Manhattanization
- Downtown Vista Before Manhattanization, mid-20th Century
- Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate
- Dunes or Dump?
E
F
- Family Home: 1484 22nd Avenue
- Filbert Steps and Grace Marchant Gardens
- Fillmore Cultural Capital
- Fillmore Redevelopment
- Fillmore: The Beats in the Western Addition
- Film Exchanges
- Finocchio's: The Carnegie Hall of Cross-Dressing
- Fisherman's Wharf
- Fox Theater
- Freeways Never Built, or Unbuilt after 1989 quake
- Frigging (Mad) in the Rigging
- From Fish-Choked Mudflat to the Pyramid
G
- Gay History and Politics in the Tenderloin
- Gayola Scandal
- Gays and Beats
- Ginsberg's Haunts
- Goldmine Hill
- Good Samaritan Center
- Grant Building
- Gratitude for Nail House in Diamond Heights
- Gray Brothers Quarry at Corona Heights
- Greenwich Steps
- Growing up in Noe Valley in the 1950s
- Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco
H
- H&K and Eimac; an Indigenous Vacuum Tube Industry Emerges
- Hal Call, Pan-Graphic Press, and the Adonis Bookstore
- Harding Park Golf Course
- Harlem of the West
- Harrison Street Industrial Corridor
- Harry Bridges
- Harry Bridges cont'd.
- Height Limit Revolt Saves Waterfront Vistas
- Highway 101
- How Many Cliff Houses?
- HOWARD THURMAN 1899-1981
- Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression
- Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard
- Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard Aerial Views Before and After WWII
- Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard: A Visit in 1956
I
J
- Jack Kerouac
- Jack LaLanne
- Jackie Jones: A Life in Music
- Jade Snow Wong
- Japanese Internment
- Jazz of Modern Basketball: Racism and Virtuosity at the Roots of the Champion Golden State Warriors
- Jimbo's Bop City
- Joe Jachetta's Story
- John Coltrane's Last Trips To San Francisco
- John Reber: The Man Who Helped Save the Bay by Trying to Destroy It
- Julia Morgan
- Junipero Serra Boulevard
K
L
- Laguna Honda
- Laguna Honda Hospital
- Larry Ching
- Laurel Heights
- Leather Kings
- Lefty O'Doul
- Levi's Plaza
- LEVI'S: Blue Jean Kings
- Liberty Hill from Twin Peaks
- Life of the (Communist) Party
- Little Hollywood Origins
- Looking Back a Quarter-Century in 1976
- Lotta's Fountain
- Louise Boyd: The Dame Who Tamed The Arctic
M
- MANILATOWN
- Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
- Married for Decades
- Marshall Square
- Mattachine: Radical Roots of the Gay Movement
- Mayor Elmer Robinson
- Mayor George Christopher
- Mayor Jack Shelley
- Mechanization on the Waterfront
- Mel Lewis, Big Band Singer
- Mercury Mining
- Midcentury Migrations
- Miné Okubo
- Miraloma Park Mudslide 1942
- Miriam Dinkin Johnson
- Mission Creek Banana Boats
- Mission District Catholic Liberals Shaped San Francisco's Culture
- Mission Life 1930s-40s
- Mission Miracle Mile
- Mission Rock
- Missouri and 18th Streets
- Mortimer Fleishhacker Jr. Lived Here
- MUNI History III: Financial Problems--The Depression, War and Merger