FoundSF

Unfinished History

Foot of stairs at 22nd Street and Diamond, 2022.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Eventual site of 22nd Street stairs as seen from Diamond, July 11, 1919.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp36.02166

Northeast Corner of 22nd and Diamond, not graded. Now the site of a stairway, Grocery Store building still stands. June 30 1920.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp36.02327

In the 1960s, Ed Ferris and his friends would play on the several flights of stairs at 22nd street at Diamond st in Noe Valley, often riding down the stairs on pieces of plywood.

22nd Street stairs looking up from Diamond Street, Aug. 10, 1926, not long after they were built.

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Same stairway, looking west from the top in 2015.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Same view in September, 2021.

Photo: Chris Carlsson