25 Amazing Color Photos Capture Street Scenes of San Francisco in 1967

Urban planning projects of San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s involved widespread destruction and redevelopment of west-side neighborhoods and the construction of new freeways, of which only a series of short segments were built before being halted by citizen-led opposition.

The onset of containerization made San Francisco’s small piers obsolete, and cargo activity moved to the larger Port of Oakland. The city began to lose industrial jobs and turned to tourism as the most important segment of its economy.

The suburbs experienced rapid growth, and San Francisco underwent significant demographic change, as large segments of the white population left the city, supplanted by an increasing wave of immigration from Asia and Latin America. From 1950 to 1980, the city lost over 10 percent of its population.

Over this period, San Francisco became a magnet for America's counterculture. Beat Generation writers fueled the San Francisco Renaissance and centered on the North Beach neighborhood in the 1950s. Hippies flocked to Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, reaching a peak with the 1967 Summer of Love.

These amazing color photos were taken by JFCiesla that show street scenes of San Francisco in 1967.

California Street, San Francisco, 1967

Cable car 521 at Hyde and Washington Streets, San Francisco, 1967

California Street and Powell Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, 1967

California Street view on Market Street to Ferry Terminal, San Francisco, 1967

Grant Avenue and California Street, San Francisco, 1967

Grant Avenue from Washington Street view south, San Francisco, 1967

Hyde Street and Aquatic Park, San Francisco, 1967

Hyde Street and Green Street, San Francisco, 1967

Hyde Street near California Street, San Francisco, 1967

Hyde Street near North Point Street, San Francisco, 1967

Market Street at Van Ness view west to Twin Peaks, San Francisco, 1967

Market Street, San Francisco, 1967

Market Street, San Francisco, 1967

Market Street, San Francisco, 1967

Powell and Market Streets, San Francisco, 1967

Powell and Market Streets, San Francisco, 1967

Powell Street north of Union Square Park, San Francisco, 1967

San Francisco cable car 506 on Hyde Street near Aquatic Park, 1967

View east on California Street from Grant Avenue, San Francisco, 1967

View east on California Street, San Francisco, 1967

View east on California Street, San Francisco, 1967

View north east from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, 1967

View north on Hyde Street from California Street, San Francisco, 1967

Washington Street view east towards Grant Avenue, San Francisco, 1967

West Portal Twin Peaks Tunnel, San Francisco, 1967