Category:1940s
1946 traffic jam on Mission, near 5th St.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
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Remarkable footage from many areas of San Francisco in early 1940s. Chinatown, North Beach, downtown, Nob Hill, Sutro Heights Park and Playland at the Beach, Ocean Beach, Cow Hollow, and more. Chinatown at beginning, Sutro Heights at about 6'.
Pages in category "1940s"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 321 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 UFO Blimp-napping over Daly City? August 16th, 1942
- African American Segregation in San Francisco
- After Internment: Oakland 1945
- Alcatraz: Island of Evil Spirits
- Alemany view
- All-American Football Conference: San Francisco 49ers
- Alma Spreckels
- An Abstract Expressionist Lived Here
- AND THEY CALLED IT "COW HOLLOW"
- Aquatic Park and Maritime Museum
- Archie Green and New Labor History
- Automobiles Take Over San Francisco Streets
- Avenue Theatre
B
- Banks Street
- BARBARY COAST
- BART: Bechtel's Baby
- Battery Mendel
- BAY AREA COUNCIL
- Bay Bridge for Everyone
- Bayshore Yard
- Bayview Hill
- Bechtel Corporation
- Before the Castro: North Beach, a Gay Mecca
- Being Californian
- Bernal Cut
- Bernal Heights Boulevard
- BILL BAILEY 1910-1995
- Billie Holliday Busted
- Blacks in Baseball
- Butterflies
C
- California Labor School
- California's Not So Radical New Deal Murals
- Candlestick Before and After Stadium Built
- Candlestick Cove
- Castro St South 1915
- Cecilia Chiang: Chef as Culture Shaper
- Cement Factory to Condos at 17th and Harrison
- Cemeteries at foot of Lone Mountain
- Charles E Moore 1894- 1953 "Iron Man of HENDY"
- Chinese Americans in San Francisco during World War II
- Chinese Immigration
- Chinese Telephone Exchange
- Chuck Cannon, pilebutt
- Class Mobility and New Neighborhoods in Early 20th Century
- Clement Streetcars
- Columbus and Broadway c 1930
- Columbus Day Which Will Live in History: October 12, 1942
- Converting a Grain Warehouse To An Upscale Office in the 1970s
- Cooperation Among Electronics Firms and Conclusions
- CORRUPTION CENTRAL: PETER P. McDONOUGH
- Curatorial Brilliance: Grace L. McCann Morley’s Directorship at the San Francisco Museum of Art
D
- Dalmo-Victor and Ampex
- DALY CITY: THE NEW FILIPINOTOWN
- David Meltzer on MUSIC AND POETRY
- Dead City: Colma Where San Franciscans go to Die
- Del Monte Foods
- Detained on Angel Island
- Diego Rivera in San Francisco
- Diego Rivera, Technology, and Communism
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap at Hunters Point
- Dolores Street and 27th Street
- Downtown Scenes Early 20th Century
- Downtown Vista Before Manhattanization, mid-20th Century
- Dunes or Dump?
E
F
- Fairmount Heights
- Family Home: 1484 22nd Avenue
- Farmers Market 1943
- Filbert Steps and Grace Marchant Gardens
- Fillmore Arches Torn Down
- Fillmore Cultural Capital
- Fillmore filipinos
- Fillmore Redevelopment
- Fillmore Street Cars
- Finocchio's: The Carnegie Hall of Cross-Dressing
- Firpo Family on Potrero Hill
- Folsom Street Streetcars 23rd to 25th Streets
- Forgotten Murals Empowered Women during the 20th Century
- Forgotten Railroad Right-of-Way at 22nd and Harrison
- Fort Funston
- Fort Mason: Where Ronald Reagan Hallucinated During WW II
- Fox Theater
- From Temescal Creek to Emeryville: An Ecological and Social History
G
H
- H&K and Eimac; an Indigenous Vacuum Tube Industry Emerges
- Haight Street 1940s
- Haight-Ashbury Architectural Tour beginning
- Harding Park Golf Course
- Harry Bridges
- Harry Bridges cont'd.
- Haunted Tower Spooks Wannabe Artists
- Highway 101
- History of Redlining in San Francisco Neighborhoods
- HOWARD THURMAN 1899-1981
- Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard
I
- India Basin and the Southeast Bayshore
- Indoor Public Murals
- Inez Burns: San Francisco’s Worst Kept Secret
- Inner Sunset Streetcars
- Inside Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's Life in San Francisco
- Ishi — Yahi Indian
- Islais Creek Remembered
- Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station
- It's an Oily World Out There
- Italian Fishing Ban WWII
J
K
L
M
- Mai Tai Sing
- Maltese Falcon
- Man!: A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement
- MANILATOWN
- Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
- Marinship to Marin City: How a Shipyard Built a City
- Market and Church
- Market Street Hub Neighborhood
- Mattachine: Radical Roots of the Gay Movement
- Mayor Angelo Rossi
- Mayor Elmer Robinson
- Mayor Roger Lapham
- McAllister Car Barn
- Mel Lewis, Big Band Singer
- Mid-Twentieth Century Daily Life Scenes
- Midcentury Migrations
- Midtown Mid-century
- Miguel Street
- Miraloma Park Mudslide 1942
- Miriam Dinkin Johnson
- Mission Creek Banana Boats
- Mission District Catholic Liberals Shaped San Francisco's Culture
- Mission Rock
- Mission, 11th Street, South Van Ness and Market
- Mt. Olympus
- Mt. Zion Nursing School
- MUNI History II: The Progressive Era and Public Development
- MUNI History III: Financial Problems--The Depression, War and Merger
N
O
- Oakland 1946 General Strike
- Officers' Quarters No. 10, Naval Station Treasure Island
- Old Cemeteries in the City
- Opening Sloat Blvd
- Opera House
- Oral History: Harry Hay
- Oral History: Herb Mills
- Oral History: Louise Fields
- Oral History: Stan Weir
- Origins Of Silicon Valley: The Development of the Electronics Industry in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Outer Mission