Real estate development profoundly changes the land–water, plants, soil, animals, and even weather. What was the environment like here, a century or more ago? How was the land marketed by real estate firms? Some related posts:
- Of Goats and Groceries — early suburban goat farming by Sicilian immigrants
- How Sunnyside got its trees: Sunnyside in the 1970s: Trees, Traffic, Taxes
- Built on Beer: The Streets of Sunnyside and San Francisco Brewery Profits
- How has the land changed over time? Visit this page for photos.
- The Creek that Ran through Sunnyside
- Density on the Boulevard: The Apartment Buildings of Monterey
- 1909: ‘Beautiful Sunnyside in the Center of San Francisco’
- 1917: The Log Cabineers of Sunnyside
- 1911: Snapshot of life on Monterey Boulevard — check out the goats!
- High on a hillside, the Sunnyside sign
- A Park for Sunnyside — the story of Sunnyside Playground
- Sunnyside’s other park and the legacy of Dorothy Erskine
- Farmland to Freeway: a history of Rock Ranch
- Cows in Sunnyside?
- From Tennis to Housing: the Story of the Gennessee Courts
- A Savior on a Rocky Knoll [Dorothy Erskine Park]
- The Ballad of Ellen Furey — the old dairywoman of Sunnyside
- Farms in Sunnyside?
- The History of the Balboa Reservoir
- Open space interlude (The History of the Balboa Reservoir)
- The real estate picture: 1909: ‘Facts about Sunnyside’
- The Secret Miner in Sutro’s Forest — local gold mining!
- 87 Men and Golden Chances: The Sunnyside advertising campaign
- 7 Ladies and The Great Horned Spoon: More Sunnyside advertising