Amazing Vintage Photographs Document the Iconic Summer of Love in San Francisco in 1967

In 1967, 100,000 hippies from across the country converged on San Francisco in a mass phenomenon dubbed the “Summer of Love.” Many were college kids on summer break and would leave come autumn—others stuck around to witness the Haight’s slow decline into a cultural wasteland.

Like a lot of young people, Jim Marshall was there. Drawn to the city’s Haight-Ashbury district by the surge of culture manifesting there—in music and fashion, in politics and mind-expanding drugs. Unlike the hordes of flower children washing up in the bohemian enclave that summer, Marshall was there to work. As a photographer employed by the biggest music labels in the business his job was to create a visual record of what Hunter S. Thompson would later lament as “the crest of a high and beautiful wave.”

Dancing in the Panhandle, June 1967.

Janis Joplin on her bed, taken in her apartment on Lyon Street, December 1967.

The Who during their stop in San Francisco, where they played two concerts at The Fillmore, June 16 & 17, 1967.

The famous corner of Haight-Ashbury streets, June 1967. The Unique Men’s Shop is now a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop.

Panhandle crowd at Hells Angels’ Thanks for Diggers New Years Day Wail, January 1, 1967.

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Amazing Photographs Documented Victorian Houses Moving in San Francisco in the 1970s

There was once a time when San Francisco’s Victorian architecture was not as highly respected and esteemed as it is today. In the mid-1970s the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency stopped the wholesale destruction of venerable Victorian buildings. Instead, they picked them up and moved them around the neighborhood.

Photographer Dave Glass documented the relocation of several such homes in San Francisco in the mid-1970s. As part of an urban renewal effort, these 19th century homes in the Western Addition neighbourhood were moved. They were then sold for just $1 plus the cost of the relocation and renovations.

Glass shot these images for his House Movers, San Francisco series on black and white film. He is a native of San Francisco, and his photography portfolio demonstrates his interest in California history.

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21 Amazing Colorized Photos That Show San Francisco in the 19th Century

These photos have been hand-tinted by using analyzed dyes and traditional brush methods by Bennett Hall. They captured street scenes and the infrastructure of San Francisco from the 19th century.

San Francisco Waterfront, 1850

Rincon Point, San Francisco, 1851

Samuel Kellett Storefront at 765 Market Street, ca. 1860s

San Francisco waterfront from Telegraph Hills, 1865

Waterfront below Telegraph Hill, 1865

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1980s San Francisco: A Cool Women Fashion Collection Taken by an American Photographer

American photographer Rick Soloway took these beautiful photos that show a part of San Francisco women fashion trend in the 1980s.

“My son Steven encouraged me to assemble and share some of the photos of my friends and aquaintances in 1980s San Francisco.”

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32 Impressive Photos That Capture Street People of San Francisco in the 1970s

These fantastic black and white photos were taken by Mr Flikker that show an impressive look into everyday life of street people in San Francisco from the 1970s.

Men on street in San Francisco, 1973

Men walking on street in San Francisco, 1973

A young couple in San Francisco, 1973

Man on bus, San Francisco, 1974

Man on bus, San Francisco, 1974

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San Francisco Pride: Looking Back on the LGBT Parade and Festival in the Late 1970s

The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in San Francisco, California, to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies.

The first event resembling the modern San Francisco Pride parade and celebration was held in 1970—with a march down Polk Street and a small "gay-in" in Golden Gate Park. Since 1972, the event has been held each year. The name of the festival has changed over the years. The event organizers each year select a theme for the event, which is reflected in the logo and the event’s publicity.

The Rainbow Flag identified with the LGBT community was originally created by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 San Francisco Pride Parade. It originally had eight stripes, but was later simplified to the current six stripes. A six-stripe Rainbow Flag flies over Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro, arguably the best known LGBT village in the world.

A collection of fantastic photos from LongingToBe There will bring you back this festival in the late 1970s.

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Awesome Color Footage of America in the Late 1970s

The footage shows the cities of: New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto (Canada).
Music: Bob James - Take Me to the Mardi Gras

Beautiful Color Photos Documented Street Scenes of San Francisco in the 1960s

Here is an amazing color photo collection that shows street scenes of San Francisco, California in the 1960s.

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15 Colorized Vintage Photos of San Francisco in the Mid-Late 1800s

With vintage black and white photos, each of people will has personal imagination of detail colorization. With Bennett Hall, an American photographer, exhibit designer/producer & historian and archivist, he painted color onto these historic pictures that captured San Francisco from the 1850s to 1890s to make them more lively.

And here they are...

Civic Center Plaza in the 1890s

Hall of Records, San Francisco, ca. 1880s

Hills Bros. Arabian Coffee & Spice Mills, located at the corner of Sansome and Sacramento Streets, ca. 1880s

Meiggs' wharf, Telegraph Landing area, ca. 1870s

Montgomery Street, Palace Hotel at end, ca. 1880s

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45 Color Snapshots That Capture Street Scenes of San Francisco in 1975

These beautiful color photos were taken by American photographer Peter Stratmoen that documented street scenes of San Francisco in 1975.

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70 Rare Photographs of Streets and Buildings in San Francisco That Illustrate the Destruction Caused by the 1906 Earthquake

On the morning of April 18, 1906, a massive earthquake shook San Francisco, California. Though the quake lasted less than a minute, its immediate impact was disastrous. The earthquake also ignited several fires around the city that burned for three days and destroyed nearly 500 city blocks.

Despite a quick response from San Francisco's large military population, the city was devastated. The earthquake and fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and left half of the city's 400,000 residents homeless. Aid poured in from around the country and the world, but those who survived faced weeks of difficulty and hardship.

The survivors slept in tents in city parks and the Presidio, stood in long lines for food, and were required to do their cooking in the street to minimize the threat of additional fires. The San Francisco earthquake is considered one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.

Ruin At Palo Alto.

Boy's Gymnasium, Stanford University, Palo Alto.

At Stanford University, Palo Alto.

A Block in Redwood City.

High School, Redwood City.

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