San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now

Lately, there has been a rash of fake Facebook pages posting AI generated then and now images and moving films that are ridiculously inaccurate to the point of being stupid. In addition to this, they have lifted pictures from websites, including mine, and posted them on their junk pages, watermarked with their logo suggesting that they have either created the images or own th...

The title is in reference to the pictures I took because they’re about as close to the locations of the vintage pictures as I could match. These are now and thens rather than then and nows because I took the pictures first, and then looked for vintage pictures afterwards that would come close to the locations of my photos. It’s kind of a private scavenger hunt I like to do so...

I’ve been riding bikes around San Francisco for decades, and the various editions of the ‘San Francisco Bike Map & Walking Guide’ have come in handy for avoiding hills or steep grades; the darker streets showed where the grades were. However, when I got an ebike in 2020 the map became obsolete concerning bike riding for me, but still handy for walking. I found one of my c...

In July of 2016 I went to the Fisherman’s Wharf area to take some comparison pictures that were taken in 1975 by photographer Peter Stratmoen. It was a fun day, and turned out to be one favorite posts. The Fisherman’s Wharf area has changed almost as drastically in the last ten years as it had from 1975 to 2016, so I went over to the Wharf again yesterday to update my post, a...

Amy O’Hair is a historian and author who writes for the Sunnyside History Project. We’ve been in touch with each other on our websites, and yesterday I was able to meet her in San Francisco for a sale she was having for her new book. Amy writes mostly about history in the Sunnyside District of San Francisco, an area that I seldom have visited. One of her articles is about a f...