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:

• 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
• 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
• The Creek that Ran through Sunnyside
• 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’