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Photos
N.D. - Berzel tailors of Mission Street
N.D. - Before the Lucky Horseshoe and Skip's Tavern, there was the Cherokee.
2010 - Barry Forman painted 55 Manchester Street when it was near-derelict.
1915 - The Chevalier map shows Bernal Heights dwellings in 1907.
1861 - This 1861 map by Vitus Wackenreuder shows the race track north of Precita Creek.
Precita Grocery Token
N.D. - Joseph Powers had a grocery store on Precita in the 1900s
2010 - 55 Manchester in 1995 and 2010. Painting by Barry Forman
1921 - Bernal Heights from 26th and Fair Oaks 1921
1987 - 1726 Alabama used to be a farmhouse.
1889 - Map of Bernal Heights, 1889
1999 - The Taxi Co. building at the corner of Cesar Chavez and Mission.
1920 - 3340 Folsom in the 1920s.
1960 - 3340 Folsom in the 1960s.
2009 - 48 Cortland, recently confirmed (Nov. 2011) as an earthquake shack.
2008 - 627 Cortland, now an art gallery, used to be a bakery.
1995 - 62 Bradford, the "Bunch of Grapes" house.
1976 - A murder on Ellsworth Street.
1981 - An aerial view of Bernal in 1981 from the west.
N.D. - Alemany Boulevard and Islais Creek
N.D. - Alemany Boulevard and Islais Creek, east of Mission.
1978 - 189 Precita, the "Beatles House."
1978 - Brewster Street in 1978.
1988 - Brewster Street, looking north from Costa Street
1978 - Brewster Street from the freeway
1978 - Brewster Street, looking south from Rutledge Street.
1978 - Brewster Street, looking southeast from Rutledge.
1973 - Looking north from 80 Bronte.
1980 - Community Assembly of God Church at 908 Cortland, seen in 1980.
1973 - The Community Assembly of God Church at 908 Cortland, seen in July 1973.
1980 - Community Assembly of God Church at 908 Cortland, seen in 1980.
2005 - Cortland Merchants Association plaque that hung in Cotton Basics
1978 - Eastern slope of Bernal, freeway to Brewster.
1973 - Franconia Street, seen from Esmeralda in 1973
1976 - Franconia Street, seen from Esmeralda in 1976.
1987 - From the freeway to Bradford
1977 - From the freeway to Brewster
1987 - Gig Bag music store ad
1940 - Hales Grocery at Norwich and Alabama
1976 - Hav-a-Lik ice cream
1981 - Holly Park and Newman, 1981.
1973 - Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom, in 1973.
1987 - Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom, in 1987.
N.D. - Islais Creek at St. Mary's Park
1983 - It's Magic on Cortland ad
N.D. - Jim's Washer Service
1985 - Joy Street, seen from Holladay Avenue in 1985.
1976 - A murder on Ellsworth Street.
1920 - Swedish Lutheran Church, Cortland.
1987 - Manchester Street in 1987.
1983 - The "half houses" of Manchester Street.
1986 - The Mission seen from Manchester Street, 1986.
1859 - Map of Bernal Heights, 1859
2005 - The McTigue stables were on the 3100 block of Mission
1893 - Holly Park Meat Market
1993 - Montcalm and Peralta, 1993.
1991 - Mullen and Peralta, 1991.
1997 - Downtown from northeast Bernal, 1997
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1995 - Painted rocks on Bernal Hill, 1975.
1997 - Artist and painted rocks on Bernal Hill, 1997.
1995 - Paths on Bernal Hill, 1995.
1979 - Peralta and Hampshire, 1979.
1973 - The playground at Precita Park, 1973.
N.D. - Prince Charming salon ad
N.D. - Oakdale and Bayshore
1929 - Mission and Appleton
N.D. - College Hill Reservoir aerator
1904 - College hill Reservoir 1904
N.D. - Holly Park Reservoir, 1940s
N.D. - Holly Park Reservoir, 1940s
1907 - Relief camps were closed by mid-1907.
N.D. - Streetcar and railway maps
Ribeltad Vorden
2006 - The original banner for the Ribeltad Vorden
1968 - Roy's Gas on Cortland ad
1920 - J.P. Sandberg of the Swedish Lutheran Church on Cortland.
1975 - The Sears store on Mission Street, 1975.
1978 - An architectural detail on the Sears store.
1993 - Sears seen from Bernal hill, 1993.
1975 - St Anthony's after the fire in 1975, seen from Bernal hill.
1975 - St Anthony's after the fire, seen from Army Street.
1973 - The interior of St. Anthony's Church, 3215 Army Street, in 1973.
1975 - St Anthony's after the fire in 1975.
1975 - St Anthony's after the fire in 1975.
1973 - St. Kevin's Church in 1973.
1991 - St. Kevin's Church in 1991.
N.D. - A map showing the Bernal streetcar routes.
N.D. - Sun Valley Dairy bottle cap
1925 - Islais Creek and swamp, early 1920s.
2007 - Painter Samuel Marsden Brookes lived in this house at 34 Prospect from the 1860s until it was sold out of the family in the 1940s.
N.D. - Adam and Eve streets, now buried under the 101 freeway on the northeast slope of Bernal Heights.
1882 - Bernal hill seen from Army Street, December 1882. The farmhouse in the center of the photo still stands at the corner of Mirabel and Shotwell.
2007 - 450 Murray Street was built in 1887 by Francis Kowalkowski.
1890 - Cyrus Packard built this house, now 12 Elsie Street, in the 1870s when the street was still named Cherubusco.
1900 - August Litzius and his family lived in this house at 189 Bocana Street.
1896 - Precita Park in 1896, seen from Folsom Street.
1888 - Mission and Army streets intersect in the center of this 1888 photograph.
2007 - Dairy farmer Sivert Peterson built this house at 124 Precita in 1866.
1896 - The College Hill Reservoir was built in 1870. This 1896 photo shows Mission and Cortland intersecting to the right.
N.D. - An early-20th-century view from Cortland Avenue of the Islais Creek swamp and marshlands.
1890 - Clement Richardson lived at 440 Cortland from 1887 to 1897.
1890 - Bridget Sheehan, Clement Richardson's wife, lived at 440 Cortland from 1887 until the early 20th century.
1909 - 440 Cortland, seen decorated for the Portola Festival in 1909.
1900 - A class picture, circa 1900, of the Bernal Grammar School at 500 Cortland, where the library now stands.
1906 - The fire that followed the earthquake of 1906, seen from Bernal's north slope.
1907 - As the refugee camp in Precita Park closed in 1907, people hauled away the earthquake shacks to make more permanent homes.
2000 - Helene Ferenz Critler was a little girl when the earthquake struck. She and her family lived in two earthquake shacks at 43 Carver Street that still stand today.
1930 - Domicella Ferenz lived at 43 Carver after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
2006 - Jacque Phillips now lives at 43 Carver Street in a cottage made of two original earthquake shacks.
1909 - Replacing the water pipes at Alabama and 26th streets in May 1907.
1915 - Cortland and San Bruno (now Bayshore) in 1915.
1910 - Bernal's northeast slope in 1910, with the Ocean Shore Railroad yard at Army and San Bruno in the foreground.
1912 - Bernal's east slope in 1912, showing the Ocean Shore Railroad yard. Many of these buildings were razed to make way for Bayshore and the freeway.
1912 - The Alemany water flume meets the railroad tracks in 1912, with Bernal's south slope in the background.
1912 - A streetcar at San Bruno (now Bayshore) and Cortland in 1912. The street in the background is Joy.
1907 - Two streetcar barns at Mission and Valencia saw intense conflict in July 1907 during the carmen's strike.
1945 - The Market Street Railway car barn at Tiffany and Valencia streets, probably in the 1940s.
1926 - The Lyceum Theatre at Mission and 29th streets, seen in 1926. It was demolished in 1964 to make way for Safeway.
1925 - Mission at Virginia in the 1920s. The Graywood Hotel (now the 3300 Club) is the domed building on the left.
1925 - 150 and 148 Elsie Street in the 1920s.
1925 - 183 to 197 Elsie Street in the 1920s.
1920 - Dominic and Frank Gualco (front) at 112 Winfield Street in 1920.
1915 - Cecilia, Catherine, and Frank Gualco at 112 Winfield in 1915.
1909 - A 1909 postcard showing Winfield Street's old name.
1919 - A 1919 postcard to 112 Winfield Street.
1908 - Natale John Gualco and goat, 1908. He grew up at 112 Winfield.
1925 - Mission and Coleridge, looking up at the hill in the 1920s. The Maxwell automobile was advertised on the hill.
1907 - The Caruso family moved into 3220 Folsom Street in 1907.
1920 - The Carusos make wine in the backyard of 3220 Folsom.
1930 - Petrina, Salvatore, and Joseph Caruso outside the family grocery store at Folsom and Precita.
1918 - Inside the Carusos' grocery store at 3220 Folsom in about 1918.
1920 - Red McCaffrey and Joe Campbell ran the Yosemite Meat Market at 3202 Folsom during the 1920s.
1940 - A 36 Folsom streetcar at Precita and Alabama, sometime in the 1940s.
1934 - A 1936 mass at Immaculate Conception Church on Folsom Street.
1917 - Immaculate Conception parishioners celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph in 1917.
1920 - 76-86 Peralta Avenue and 1570 Hampshire Street in 1920.
1920 - 51-65 Peralta Avenue in 1920.
1915 - The Le Conte school at Norwich and Alabama, seen in 1915.
1926 - Cortland Avenue between Anderson and Moultrie streets in 1926, looking east.
1926 - Cortland Avenue at Anderson Street, 1926.
1910 - The Swedish Lutheran Emanuel Church at Folsom Street and Cortland Avenue in the 1920s.
1928 - The 100 block of Holladay Avenue when the split-level retaining wall was being built in 1928.
1927 - The grocery store at 300-302 Virginia in 1927.
1923 - Construction of the Army Street sewer in 1923; Holladay and Wright streets in the background.
1914 - Construction of the railroad line at San Bruno (now Bayshore) and Holladay avenues in 1914.
1920 - 315 Holly Park Circle in 1920.
1920 - Holly Park Presbyterian Church's Sunday School students, one day in the late 1920s. The church stood at the corner of California and Lizzie (now Coleridge and Kingston streets).
1920 - The Bernal Cut, in the 1920s at Mission Street and Appleton Avenue.
1942 - A steamshovel digs into Bernal hilltop in 1942.
1920 - Bernal's two hills, seen in the 1920s before Bernal Heights Boulevard was constructed and the smaller hill was leveled.
1942 - St. Mary's Park recreation ground, seen in 1942.
2007 - The stairway at Aztec Street is a WPA construction from around 1940.
1936 - A landslide on Bernal hill in 1936, caused by excavation for Bernal Heights Boulevard. The streets in the foreground are Waltham and Alabama.
1930 - 239 and 243 Bradford Street were hit by some street-leveling machinery in the 1930s.
1935 - A streetcar jumped the end of the tracks at Folsom Street and Cortland Avenue in 1935.
1940 - The Cortland Theater at 804 Cortland Avenue. It opened in 1915 and closed in 1969; the building is now a church.
1940 - A schedule for the Cortland Theater.
1950 - Gus Triandos was raised on Alabama Street and played for the Baltimore Orioles.
1975 - Ken Reitz was raised on Santa Marina Street and played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants.
2007 - The Mosque and Islamic Center at 400 Crescent is based in a building that was originally a church.
2007 - The former True Light Church of God in Christ at 100 Tompkins.
2007 - The Precita Valley Community Center at 534 Precita.
2007 - Jackie Jones plays her musical saw alongside her tapdancing cat at the Alemany Farmers' Market every Saturday.
Precita Grocery Token
Ribeltad Vorden
