#1940s san francisco

[federer7]

Children Playing. North Beach, San Francisco. c.1940's

Photo: Fred Lyon

[wardrobeoftime]

The Age of Adaline + Costumes

Adaline Bowman's red & black dress.

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[semioticapocalypse]

Max Yavno. Untitled [Opening Night at the San Francisco Opera]. 1947

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[kecobe]

Subway, New York Louis Stettner (American; 1922–2016) 1946 (printed 1980s) Gelatin silver print SFMOMA, San Francisco, California

[crownedstoat]

City of San Francisco leaving Green River Wyoming.

[retropopcult]

1949

[broadcastarchive-umd]

During the heyday of broadcast radio, receiving distant signals was a source of pride for many hobbyists. Shown here: a listener in Staten Island, NY, received a postcard confirmation from the San Francisco, CA station KSFO in August 1944. At that time, the KSFO studios were in the Mark Hopkins Hotel, and their transmitter was at San Francisco's Islais Creek.

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[afu66]

Anne with Riley, Parking on the steep hill just below the Mark Hopkins Hotel, 1940s © Fred Lyon

[aryburn-trains]

SP train, engine number 4410, engine type 4-8-4 Train #71, Coast Mail; 6 cars. Photographed: Glendale, Cal., August 2, 1940.

[aiiaiiiyo]

[portal-to-the-past]

Playland at the Beach, San Francisco, c. 1940′s

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[federer7]

Anne with Riley, Parking on the steep hill just below the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San francisco. 1940-1950's

Photo: Fred Lyon

[agelessphotography]

The City, Max Yavno, 1947

[letsgocat]

San Francisco, circa 1944. A private lesbian party.

I found this photo in the book Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman. The rights belong to the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive.

[spockvarietyhour]

Pontiacs at Golden Gate International Exposition. Billy Rose Aquacade. San Francisco, 1940

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

DALI BLUE

One of the characteristics of oil paint is that it grows transparent as it ages. When the paint is applied in thin glazes, underwork eventually begins to show through. As in Salvador Dali’s “Portrait of Dorothy Spreckels Munn” (1942) in the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.