Bernal Cut

Unfinished History

Train passing through Bernal Cut near Milton Street, 1905.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Looking south in Bernal Cut near Charles Street, 1905.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Railroad passing Bernal Cut, 1908.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Looking south through the Bernal Cut, pre-1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Widening the Bernal Cut to make it a car route too, 1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Bernal Cut at Richland Avenue overpass, October 18, 1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Bernal Cut, Richland Avenue, Miguel Street Bridge and Highland Avenue Bridge, October 18, 1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Bernal Cut looking north from Rousseau Street, April 1930.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Three children wander hazardously along the Bernal Cut, c. 1942.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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The red line indicates the path the San Jose-San Francisco Railroad took through the Mission to reach the Bernal Cut at the bottom of the photo.

The actual route of the San Francisco-San Jose Railroad through Noe Valley - 1873 - (David Rumsey Collection)


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