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December 27, 2013

20 Amazing Black and White Photographs of San Francisco From Between the 1940s and 1960s

With a landmark around every corner and a picture perfect view atop every hill, San Francisco might be the world's most picturesque city. And yet, the Golden City is so much more than postcard vistas.


It's a town alive with history, culture, and a palpable sense of grandeur best captured by a man known as San Francisco's Brassai, Fred Lyon. Walking the city's foggy streets, the fourth-generation San Franciscan captures the local's view in dramatic black-and-white photos— from fog-drenched mornings in North Beach and cable cars on Market Street to moody night shots of Coit Tower and the twists and turns of Lombard Street.

Below is a collection of stunning black and white photographs of San Francisco taken by Fred Lyon from between the 1940s and '60s.





















(Images © Fred Lyon, via Shooting Film)

5 comments:

  1. Strange that they filmed the crawl for The Empire Strikes Back on the set of Star Wars.

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  2. Not at all. That was shot in 1980 - long before there were computers with any kind of graphics power to do that stuff. Now, of course, you can do it with just about any PC and a $50 video editing program (Magix Movie Edit has this very feature!).

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  3. Big Shark in Jaws what a movie

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  4. Creativity and imagination brings out the best.

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  5. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall starred in a movie called "Dark Passage." She had the neatest apartment in that movie, I would love to know where that was.

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