vintage Central California aerial photos at UC Santa Cruz Library
a directory to railroad and other images of for the historically minded, compiled by Tim Zukas

new 9-24-26; additions 10-1-26

.SP Index
I last searched for photos at UC Santa Cruz Library one afternoon in early 1972 during a snow storm (has that phenomenon since repeated itself?). I observe that the climate has changed considerably since then. Now, the wonders of the Internet increasingly bring institutional source material to researchers - sans intervening snow - rather than the other way around. It seems that the universal task ahead is to fully take advantage of such opportunities as they present themselves. Here, Tim Zukas has certainly done just that. - EO


Tim Zukas previously has contributed literally many thousands of railroad timetables and maps for download on Wx4. Recently he discovered UC Santa Cruz Library's Russell (George) Aerial Photography Collection, a trove of 2164 early/mid 20th Century high resolution images that explains landscapes in ways that ground-based photography cannot. As we understand it, these downloadable images reside in the public domain.

Recognizing their value in conjunction with the fact that a substantial number of the images have minimal, if any, accompanying description, Tim has taken on the task of identifying their subject matter in the hope of generating discussions about same. In that direction he has started quite a few threads in the Nostalgia & History section at trainorders.com under the author name of timz. (Non trainorders members can only access threads from the current day or two.)

Accessing photo URL's using the list below:

Only the last five numbers in the URL's differ between photographs. Begin accessing them by CLICKING HERE. Next, replace the five digit number at the end of your browser's URL address line with the desired image number from the list. That's it!

Should you have any discussion to offer regarding the photos, send it to: wx4org@yahoo.com

uploaded
9-24-26
69028  look N on Mission in SF, with a bit of SP on the right
69399  look NE at SP hospital (?) at E end of Panhandle in SF
69369   at bottom, SF Dolores St bridge, plus a carbarn
69010  flock of freight cars on the Belt
69322  look NW from Islais Creek
69056   Belt just E of Ft Mason, looking SW


Below are all San Francisco, little or no rail:

69113   good look SE from Nob Hill — 1924 or earlier
69375   look E at Union Square — 140 New Montgomery under construction
69336   look SE from Van Ness-Pacific 1927
69380, 69433   look SE from Ft Mason
69338   look E along Lombard from Gough 1927
69339, 69340   look SE from W of Russian Hill 1927
69341   better look SE at Nob Hill
69434   look SE at Nob Hill — 140 New Montgomery under constr
69435   look E on Sutter from Taylor — ditto above
69436   look E on California from Jones — ditto above
69344, 69391   good look N up Leavenworth from Market 1927
69381   good look N up Stockton from Market
69383   good look N up Mason from S of Market
69390   good look N up Taylor from Market 1927
69392   good look NE from Taylor-Ellis says 1927, but Russ Bldg still under constr?
xxxIs that right?
69394   look ENE from Geary-Hyde — ditto above
69395   look E from Geary-Franklin — ditto above
69396   great closeup looking N up Montgomery from S of Market — ditto above
69397   look E on Pine from E of Van Ness — ditto above
69024   good look SE from Van Ness - Bay — ditto above
69019   good look E on Geary from Van Ness
69401   look SE from Clay-Franklin
69393   look WNW at 5th-Market
69384   look NE up Market from Leavenworth
69006   good look NE up Mission from 7th
69385   good look NW from Howard-2nd
69389   look WNW from Howard-Fremont 1927
69376   look N from 2nd-Bryant
69296   looking NE from Howard-12th
69026   good look ESE from Sacramento-Webster
69027   good look ENE from Alta Plaza
69059   look NNW from Market St, Sanchez at right edge of pic
69386   good look SW — foreground church was Capp at 21st
69020   good look NW past 16th -Mission
69021   good look NW — churchspire at 21st-Capp near left end bottom edge of pic
68998   look NE up Howard
68999   look ENE, City Hall at center, no Russ Bldg
69001   look E on Post from Van Ness
68982   look E from now-gone St Mary's at Eddy-Gough
69009   good look ESE from Filbert-Pierce
69017   good look ESE — Lafayette Park at center
69104    look SE from Union-Van Ness
69116    backwards scan look SE? Hyde St pier?
69117    frontwards Hyde St pier look ESE
• 68372    I do believe that's NWP down there just north of its tunnel north of San Rafael. Looking east at Hwy 101 construction.
• 68401    The foreground Hwy 101 bridge is at 37.8797N 122.52325W, and that must be Manzanita station out there
• 68402    Pine station near the left edge of the pic?
• 68326    Bad focus --must be Antioch?
• 68206    Looking S at SP, it seems. The old topo map shows three tanks this side of the highway crossing at 37.8965N 121.86484W.
• 68189    First guess: looking S at Byron with SP across the pic.
• 68332    Oakley? What are all those little houses near the left edge? Mothball fleet in the river?
• 68232    Oakley again
• 68230    Passenger train has just headed west out of Brentwood?
• 68223, 68224, 68229   More Brentwood? 68231 has a closer look at that odd white complex at the N edge of town, which doesn't match the topos.
•
• 68994 etc   good look at Bay end of 4th St — 140 New Montgomery under constr
• 68997, 69326, 69327    Transit at left edge of the pic, with cars
• 69429    looking E there, different day
• 69430, 69431, 69432, 69328    looking N, higher
• 69211     look SW
• 69214    good closeup look NE
• 69063    16th St area, showing 3rd/16th overpasses
• 69345    good look S at S end Embarcadero
• 69224    Closeup S end Tunnel 4
• 69418    Same area after Bayshore Hwy built
• 69419    Look NE, Tunnel 3 to Tunnel 4
• 67907    Could we be looking NE at 3rd St in SF, south of Islais Creek?
• 67910    Looking ESE — at center, the Williams Ave bridge over SP just S of Tunnel 3
• 69629    Must be San Mateo. Bayshore Hwy ends just south of the road to the bridge.
• 69630    Burlingame

• 68016     SFe? floatbridge Alameda
• 67753    Del Monte logo on that Alameda building?
• 67997    Alameda wye
• 68025    Alameda and WP piers
• 68027    Good look at Alameda side of the Webster-Harrison bridges
• 67998    Wow! Too bad not that sharp. Big SANTA FE sign
• 68006    Another knockout, looking N past the Key shops. Passenger train has clear signal. Guess that overpass must be for autos.
• 68008    Government Island closeup
• 68011    good look N at Alameda and Oakland W of 23rd Ave
• 68013    wonderful look NE from SP roundhouse — best look yet at tracks there to 16th St
• 68129    Three-way switch at Howard Terminal
• 69693    Look E at Key shops (and SP above Key) — another pic showing California Packing
• 67891, 67892, 67893, 67894, 68028 etc    More California Packing, across SP from Howard Terminal
• 68002    Whose ferryboat would that be? 17th Ave in Oakland is pointed at it.
• 68003    good closeup of Oakland downtown N of 7th St
•
• 69277    Look NE from Market-Grant in SF — Shell Bldg (100 Bush) under constr
• 69278    Look NE up Market from 6th
• 69279    little bit of SP on the right
• 69281    look NE up Market from Van Ness
• 69282, 69283, 69284    look SE at Nob Hill — Shell Bldg being finished
• 69285    Look ENE at Union Square
• 69287    Look E down Bush
• 69351    Could it be looking south at Twin Peaks?
•
• 69046    This one baffled me until I noticed the Twin Peaks Tunnel.
•
• 68688, 68691, 68692, 68693     Sacramento waterfront
•
• 69640     Doesn't say the town is Winters, and I haven't found that roadblock courthouse in Winters.
•
• 67808, 67809, 67812, 67813, 67815 etc    says Cannery Row, so Monterey?
• 67811    Pacific Grove at the R edge?
•
• 67846    says Capistrano Beach — look right?
68373, 68374    Hwy 101 climbing away from NWP at Alto — NWP curve is 37.9043N 122.5263

69215    look NW at Mission Bay; more at 69221
69379    look NE at S end Embarcadero. A battleship out there?
(see SFPL pic   https://digitalsf.org/record/24576?v=uv#?xywh=-780%2C-77%2C4586%2C2603 )
69222    closeup Tennessee St
69220    "Cina Basin Looking West" - higher look W at Potrero wye; see image at page top
69421    look N west of Twin Peaks Tunnel
68172    look N at Crockett before bridge construction started
69515    looking E at SFe over SP N of Richmond
69517    out-of-focus look at SFe Richmond
69509    closeup SP Richmond station looking N
69513    look NE from SFe Richmond station
68763 etc   Ford plant Richmond looks new
69719    Why all this activity on Brooks Island?
68334    still two tracks in the SFe tunnel
68336    look E at Martinez
68757    murky look W at Martinez before the bridge
68173    looking NW E of Martinez; road bend left of center is 38.0124N 122.10635W
68331    trying to make this Pittsburg — haven't succeeded.
68747    Antioch?
69518    look E at SFe Maltby, SP over SFe S of Avon. What's that empty thru truss?
69520    look E at SN over SFe and SP W of Port Chicago
68769    look ESE at SP south of Lake Merritt


68965    good look NE from Mission-Duboce; says 1923
69030    good look ESE from Ellis Webster
69038    good look WNW from 5th-Folsom
69273    City Hall looking SW
69357    look NE from Market-VanNess
69358    look ENE from City Hall
69420    look SE from City Hall
69197    says-1922 look ENE from City Hall (225 Bush under constr)
69196    good look E from City Hall — says 1923
69051    good look N from Mission-12th. Is that a circus or something, under tents? (Not there in 69198)
69231    Look NE from Market-Valencia
69199    good look N from Mission-14th
69033    look WNW from Market-8th
69035    look E from Golden Gate - Buchanan
69036    look N up Van Ness from Mission

68978    good look at Claremont Hotel and east of it
68771    looking E at Alameda E of High St — has the street parallel to the shore since been moved farther from the shore?
68644, 68642    Rio Vista before the bridge there — some flooding
I got the wrong link in one of the Trainorders posts — the view N up Berkeley 9th St from Oakland 63rd St is

https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/69151


68350    NWP SE from San Rafael
68375    NWP Alto — curve at center is 37.9023N 122.52704W
68300    says Pittsburg — dunno which RR. Is that an SP 0-6-0 down there?
68275    a cantilever down there, so this one must be Sfe
69123    look E at Emeryville N of Powell St
68775    look N along SP from Key System underpass
68777    ditto — is it possible the Campanile's not in this pic?
68487    There's that East Oakland gas tank. SP-electric powerhouse was still alive.
68135    look SE from High St — no gas tank. The SP curve is the last one until the Niles curve.
68526    look N from SSF
68527 to 68531    more SSF (no view of depot)
68004    look N up Webster from 4th
68784    look SW from Webster-17th
68034    high Oakland look E — Posey construction


69194    look W at SP depot, etc in SF
69195    look N
69193    look S
69203    look N from Mission-8th
69204    look NE
69205    look SE from Market-8th
69202    look S
69031    Jefferson Square look NE (Vertigo house at Gough and Eddy, and now-gone St Mary's across from it)
69014    San Jose Ave running across the bottom of the pic, SP lower left with Alemany being built next to it
68963    look NW up Spear from the piers
69331    look NW up Fremont from the piers — 140 New Montgomery under constr
69428    look WNW over piers E of Telegraph Hill
69445    closeup Lombard-Embarcadero
69201    look NE from Eddy-Hyde
69411    early look N from 3rd-Mission
69142    look NE from Kearny-Sutter
68971    look N at NE end of Market St
69409    look W from Howard - New Montgomery (says 1923)
69188    not-great look WNW at piers and Telegraph Hill
69187    closeup look NE at piers N from Howard
69180 to 69185    good closeups Ferry Bldg look W  (225 Bush under constr)
69189    look S there
69295    another look W
69207    look SE down 1st St from N of Market-- says 1923 (Matson Bldg under constr)
69186    look SW — same flight?
68973    so-so look S at Fisherman's Wharf
68970   better look E from Polk
69238    closeup look NE
69228    closeup look SE
69229    look SW
69403    look SW at Fort Mason — two RR lines E of tunnel?
69209    leftover tower from 1915 Exposition? (look E)
69249    look SE at Galileo HS under constr — says 1922
69687, 68958, 68960    Laguna St tank, 13 miles from Mills Field
68959, 68962    Army St tank, 6 miles from Mills Field
69090    look W Islais Creek — long SP trestle
69094    pair of semaphores on SP's trestle
69105    China Basin look SW

68301, 68276    four-lane hwy with streetcars in median — says Pittsburg (note "Vernon" (?) at bottom of 68276)
68266    also says Pittsburg and might be

68899, 68903    look NE at Dos Palos, couple miles off the West Side line
68626    says Glendale — two? parallel RRs, one might be electrified PE double track

NWP Larkspur station look N — still there at 37.93674N 122.5344W
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/larkspur-g.g.-bridge/68357

Good look SE at NWP Fairfax
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-57-fairfax/68387

NWP station — must be Waldo? Also seen in 68402, looking S. The hill at the L edge of the pic 37.871N 122.506, isn't it?
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68376

looking NW at NWP from Almonte toward Mill Valley
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68377

Another short-name NWP station, on electrified double track
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68380

Two White Front (?) cars around Land's End
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/lincoln-park-looking-east/69362

Look E at Crockett, after the bridge
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68419

Could this be Permanente?
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/69464

Good look N from Elmhurst — bldg at center is still there at 37.7425N 122.1841W.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/69695

Same bldg is R of center in this one; 85th Ave runs across pic this side of the RR
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68927

Industry L of center in pic above, with a black-paint semaphore
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/mallable-castings/67880
(pics 68125 to 68127 are backwards views of this industry)

Look E at San Leandro industry betw WP-SP (see also 68078 below)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/lumber-co.-san-leandro/68079

Great view of Los Banos
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/los-banos/68898

One live RR, one or two dead ones — Contra Costa?
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68390


68149    good look E from 9th-Brush in Oakland
68150    higher look E from W of Market
68151    look E from 11th-Jefferson
68156    look E from 12th-Alice
69554    good closeup look E from Alameda — Montgomery Ward L of center
68167    look NE from Berkeley Univ Ave pier
68078    look NE at SP-WP in San Leandro — powerline tower in lower right corner likely? still there 37.7108N 122.1510W

69611    Ocean Shore? wood bridge

68891    backwards but good look at Los Banos
68904, 68905    more Los Banos

68392    dunno if this is Marin, or what RR that is. Odd to see a town that dense.
68396, 68397    says Marin — think it's true?

Look ENE at new Hwy 101 bridge over NWP at 37.9355N 122.5168W
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marsh-land-lark-spur-san-quentin/68356

Look W at Almonte (junction of NWP branch to Mill Valley, about 37.8895N 122.5250W)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/mill-valley/68354

Point Reyes — the twin-tower bldg is still at 38.0700N 122.8072W.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/novato-marin-58/69458

SW end of Twin Peaks Tunnel
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/miguel-looking-northeast/69372

Look SE at SP electric curve in Alameda
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/o.-shipyards/68061

Transit en route
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oak.-mole-s.p./68050

Look SE over Fruitvale — didn't know Montgomery Ward was originally smaller
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/melrose-fruitvale/68136

Another look N along the 9th St line. Apparently Ashby didn't exist W of San Pablo; it would be just past the 2nd SP curve.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67911

Looking N at steam local starting up the 9th St line
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67912

Looking N up Hollis from the Key xing
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67913

Looking NNW west of San Pablo, from 22nd St in Oakland
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67914

Looking N from Adeline St xing of SP-WP, with some mystery new tracks in the Homestead
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67915

Look NNW from SE of Peralta
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67916

Wow! SP electric curves away from the main at Melrose or whatever it was
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67933

Out-of-focus view of Walnut Grove
Nielsen Packing Co. - Digital Collections  (number 68564)

Better — end of track at Walnut Grove
Nielsen Packing Co. - Digital Collections (number 68575)

Look E east of SP S San Francisco. Would Western Meat have gotten stock cars? (68536 and 68537 don't show much more.)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/metal-thermit-corp./68533

Look E at Butler Rd grade xing SSF
Mills Field, Western Pipe & Steel - Digital Collections  (number 68718)

Look NE toward Twin Peaks Tunnel
Miraloma, Twin Peaks - Digital Collections (number 69398)

Good bet we're looking S thru Lodi — the foreground underpass is 38.1457N 121.2707W.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/nielsen-packing-co./68682

Sign says Lodi Canning Company, and Lodi looks likely, the crossing at 38.1265N 121.27206W. This view looks E
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/nielsen-packing-co./68681
and this looks W.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/nielsen-packing-co./68680

Two views of Firebaugh
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/so.-dos-palos/68877
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/so.-dos-palos/68879

SP town -- looks like no parallel highway, so West Side? Has semaphores, TO signal
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/miller-lux/68895
(sign maybe says Dos Palos Lumber Yard — Dos Palos was a TO station, but I'm still leaning against the pic being it. 68903 and 68889 show the other Dos Palos, with no RR.)

69200    look E from Powell - O'Farrell says 1922  (225 Bush under constr)
69408    look NE on Mission from 3rd St
69106    look E on 22nd St from Mission
69039    good look S on Clayton

67917    look ENE from Channing-McGee in Berkeley
67918    Key had private right-of-way south of Peralta?
67934    good look NW, southwest side of E 14th St east of Melrose
67935    look N
67936    look NW — near left edge of pic, still-there bldg at 37.7425N 122.1841W
67930    good look E at Codornices Creek industry, and the incinerator
67931    look SW
67932    look NW
68168    look NNE at Martinez before the bridge
68174, 68335    look E, not sharp
68561, 68577, 68582, 68583, 68652, 68653   Isleton? Fruit picker houses in 68653? No SP to Isleton.
68573    good look at Rio Vista — bridge under construction? Says 1926
68578 to 68581, 68656, 68657   more Rio Vista
68668    SFe in Antioch?


10-1-2026 Tim discussed the following images on various trainorders.com threads. These are not repeats of above.

69059 look N along Sanchez from Market
69159 closeup Fort Point look W
69359 Lafayette Park look NW
69029, 69032   look NW S of Alta Plaza
69102  look W along Bwy from Octavia — whole block E of Divisadero empty
69206  look ENE from SF Auditorium — Hobart has FP?
69323  high look NNW from Hunters Pt
69422  Broderick and Baker climbs look open

69676   Claremont Hotel closeup look E

Look N at WP (compare with 69695 looking N from Elmhurst)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68478

68399, 69454  NWP electric N end Sausalito?


Wonderful look north Shellmound
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68006

68154   Look N up Hollis from Park 1931

Closeup Key stack looking SE
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68776

40th - San Pablo area look E
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68935

Look NE from Adeline-Grove says 1925
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68938

Look NE from Golden Gate Tower
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68939

Look NE from 16th St — Campanile center frame
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68921
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68937

Closeup Powell-Hollis look NW
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68924
Also 69152

Closeup Berkeley industry S of Carleton
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68038

Closeup Berkeley HS looking NE
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68925

Looking SW at Cedar - San Pablo
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68926

Look N up 6th St from University
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68928

Look SE over Gilman xing SP 69156

Look N from 8th St along Peralta
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68039

Look E from W of Market - 10th  68940
Closeup Oakland City Hall look E — Central Bldg under constr (and the Broadway-20th tower)   68941
Look E along 10th St   68942
Look N on Broadway from 12th   68943
Look N from 9th   68944
Look NE from 15th   68945
High look NE from Howard Term   69681

Look N along 9th St line from 63rd St   69151

Closeup Alameda Pier  68948
Webster St bridge in water  69148
Looking N at Fernside powerhouse   69153
69692  look N from swamps S of Melrose — squat WP tank visible
69688, 67928   OAK? look E
68931    OAK? Look N

Look NNE from foot of Broadway 1931
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68040

Look E from Magnolia 1924
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68051

67895    High look ENE from Homestead (says 1922)

Look NW at Richmond 1924
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68084
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68086

Look SE at SP Richmond
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68789

67859   No auto ferries to SFe  Richmond?

Steel Tank and Pipe Co 1927
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68104
69712  high look E says 1928, and 69713 look N says 1928
68783 look W from Key

68735  look E at Crockett as Carquinez Br construction starts
68171  look S
68758  look W from E of Port Costa
69533 Avon

Fruitvale 1927 (before WP got moved)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68105

7th St curve look ENE 1927 (with mystery Piedmont bldg)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68110

Downtown Oakland good looks N 1931
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68138
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68137
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68139

Ditto 1926
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68159
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68160
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68451
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68452

1926 look N from Estuary (but Posey looks open — opened 10/28)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68453

Look E from Estuary at SFe Alice St
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68469

67919   good look NE downtown Berkeley 1928
67920   good look E from City Hall
67921   look NNE from S of Telegraph-Alcatraz
67922   look E from W of SFe N of University
67923, 68809   look NE from Shattuck-Adeline
67924   look N from Ashby
69489   look ENE from SP-Ashby
68114, 68116   good look E from SP-Dwight
67995   closeup SP Berkeley look NW
67925   look E from Addison-Sacramento
67927   look NW from Allston-California
67929, 68806, 68807   look E at campus
68047, 68048 (says 1931)  look E at campus
68145   look SE from Garfield
68148, 68153   Look SE from Grove-Hearst
68810    Look SE from Milvia-Cedar
68155   Look NNE from 45th-Telegraph

Look E Berkeley south of Durant E of Ellsworth
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68141

Look E from SP Berkeley 11/24
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68463

Look NE there, undated
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68470

SP and WP E of Hegenberger
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68927
69695 look N at same area from Elmhurst
67884 good closeup Elmhurst industry look E with Stonehurst? Branch

68049   good closeup San Leandro look N (where WP-SP closest)

Ford plant Richmond 1931
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68140
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68472 undated

SFe Richmond pier
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68464

Backwards Richmond closeup
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68128

Frontwards of above -- Roosevelt-Barrett?
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68026
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68165
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68166

68313   "PIONEER RUBBER MILL S.S.F." can't be SSF?

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Somehow, the first pic that I posted on TO was 69157, a fine view of Klamath Falls that's not in the lists. Others on TO that may or may not be in the lists:

67882, 885, 886, 888, 995

68022, 037, 038, 040, 051, 055, 062, 082, 084, 086, 109, 114-116, 171, 399, 453-459, 462-464, 469-471, 477, 627, 628, 632, 735, 758, 789, 793, 912, 919-939, 948

69152, 153, 403, 404, 475, 695

Bottom center of 69611 is a maybe-Ocean-Shore wood trestle. Evan identified 68626: the PE curve is 34.048N 118.493W. 68301 and 68276 are looking SE at Vernon — the streetcar intersection is 34.0040N 118.2303W.

Take a look at 69422. See that boxy apartment bldg below center and just left of center — this one https://maps.app.goo.gl/jpsPqp1RCVS8iqyj6

It's on the corner of north-south Baker St and east-west Green St. Looking at 69422, go a block south from there to Vallejo St, which is the bottom of the hill up to Broadway. A block east of there, you see a similar climb on Broderick St. Looks like both of those hills are streets, open to the public, which they aren't now. Broderick was a 34.5% climb, and Baker was just a bit steeper. Wonder how long those streets existed. That's the only reason 69422 is in my list.


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