Tag: “San Francisco”

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  1. Chinatown

    The largest Chinatown outside of Asia.

  2. Coit Tower

    Coit Tower stands atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco's Pioneer Park, and offers fantastic views of San Francisco including the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park ("Aquatic Park"), Alcatraz, Pier 39, Angel Island, Treasure Island, the Bay Bridge, Russian Hill, the Financial District, Lombard Street, and Nob Hill.

  3. Alcatraz Island

    Otherwise known as "The Rock", Alcatraz Island just off the shores of San Francisco. Home to the first lighthouse on the West Coast, not to mention one of the most notorious prison systems, movie set, national park, and the birthplace of the American Indian Red Power movement.

  4. ocean beach

    Ocean Beach makes up the entire west side of the San Francisco peninsula, where the Pacific meets the dunes. The Great Highway (Highway 35) runs the length of it, from Geary Blvd by the Cliff House to the North, to Sloat Blvd by the zoo to the South.

  5. San Francisco Art Institute

    Founded in 1871, The San Francisco Art Institute is one of San Francisco's oldest art schools. It occupies a great complex in North Beach.

  6. Hua Zang Si

  7. Mission Creek

    Mission Creek is really more of a canal -- a former creek. The land around it was originally marsh, and was developed in to railyards and shipyards.

  8. Between heats at the Bring Your Own Big Wheel races

    For the last six or seven years, the Bring Your Own Big Wheel races (warning: embedded music) have been a San Francisco Easter tradition, started by local Jon Brumit. In 2007, when this picture was taken, a medium-sized event tolerated by the locals grew roughly tenfold, flooding the famous street with between 200 and 300 participants, and many, many more spectators.

  9. Chinatown Chickens

    San Francisco, California, USA

    For the photographer seeking unusual window displays, San Francisco's Chinatown offers a plethora of riches. This scene struck me as both All-American and exotic, a melding of cultures.

  10. Pruned Trees in Civic Center Park

    between the Supreme Court and Bill Graham Civic Center.