A collection of photographs of places and things in Sunnyside’s history.
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One of big advertisements that launched the district. SF Chronicle, 26 Apr 1891. More maps here.1904. Sunnyside Powerhouse, viewed from the east side near Monterey and Circular. Cooling pool, disused, visible in foreground. Courtesy SFMTA sfmta.photoshelter.com Read more about the powerhouse.
One of many looney ads used to sell lots in the early years. SF Call, 13 May 1891. See more here. 1893. Earliest known photograph of the Sunnyside Powerhouse. Cooling pond in operation. Monterey Blvd on right with streetcar. Street Railway Journal, July 1893. Read more. 1909. Workers breaking ground for the extension of the electric streetcar tracks down Monterey Blvd, near Detroit Street. SFMTA sfmta.photoshelter.com1910c. The electric streetcar at its terminus, Monterey Blvd and Gennessee Street. OpenSFHistory,org More about the first electric streetcar in San Francisco.1904. Sunnyside Powerhouse, viewed from the west side on Monterey near Baden Street. Courtesy SFMTA sfmta.photoshelter.com. Read more about the powerhouse. 1914. Temperance Merralls infront of the Sunnyside Conservatory, which William Merralls built in 1902. Read more about them here. Courtesy the Hartsough family.The original interior of the Sunnyside Conservatory. Date unknown. From Here Today by Roger Olmsted (1968). Read more about William Merralls, who built the conservatory in 1902. 1968c. Sunnyside Conservatory, before purchase by the City. Still had two wings. San Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder Photographs Collection, San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public LibraryThe first Sunnyside School, in a small house. Operated 1896-1911. SF Chronicle, 23 Jul 1899. Newspapers.com. Read more about the school. 1909. Sunnyside’s first real school house. Near Foerster and Hearst, on the site of the present school’s playground. Read more about the school. OpenSFHistory.org
Monterey Blvd (then Sunnyside Avenue) near Circular Avenue. Sunnyside Powerhouse in distance. SFMTA sfmta.photoshelter.com Read more about the powerhouse.
1911. Cropped from previous image. Goat grazing near Monterey Blvd (then Sunnyside Avenue) at Circular Ave. Sunnyside Powerhouse behind. Courtesy SFMTA sfmta.photoshelter.com1912. The “SUNNYSIDE” sign mounted for several years on the side of the hill near Mangels Ave, part of the advertising campaign to sell lots, which it might be seen here were moving rather slowly. OpenSFHistory.org Read more here.1911. Monterey Blvd Between Joost and Circular. Courtesy SFMTA sfmta.photoshelter.com Read more about this photo.1893. Car 13 of the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway, which was developed by Behrend Joost simultaneously with district of Sunnyside. Western Railroader, 1975. Read more. 1934. Bus No.1, San Francisco’s first cross-town bus, which ran from Monterey and Edna to Golden Gate Park. San Francisco History Center. San Francisco Public Library. Read more here.1928c. The house at 350 Joost Ave, where the Swansons lived, proud owners of a Ford Model A. Develoment was spotty before the 1920s. Courtesy Linda Doughty.1940c. The No.10 electric streetcar on Monterey at Edna. The last streetcar ran a few years later, replaced by buses. OpenSFHistory.org1940c. The No.10 electric streetcar on Monterey at Acadia. OpenSFHistory.org1942. The Foerster Slide filled the street with mud from Mount Davidson and knocked houses off their foundations. Foerster at Teresita. OpenSFHistory.org.The sleek lines of the streamline-moderne garage at 300 Monterey Blvd, now gone. Built by local impresario Tony Molinari in 1949. Courtesy Michelle Molinari. Every block along Monterey Blvd had a gas station for much of the mid-20th century. The last station (at Ridgewood) was removed in 1993.!941. Monterey Blvd at the Detroit Steps. Billboards were common along Monterey before the apartment-building boom of the 1950s-1970s. OpenSFHistory.org. Read more about Monterey development.
