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Journey back in time with 19 historical maps of Bayview, dating from 1922 to present day. Explore and discover the history of Bayview through detailed topographic maps, featuring cities, landmarks, and geographical changes.
By the 1950s and 1960s, the Bayview was a predominantly African-American neighborhood that housed a movie theater along the Third Street corridor, as well as a library, a gymnasium at the time, Cub scouts through "Rec and Park" as well as youth baseball teams such as "The Blue Diamonds" of Innes [Street].
Explore and discover the history of California through detailed topographic maps, featuring cities, landmarks, and geographical changes. Dive deeper into each map with our interactive high-resolution viewer and extensive library data.
Point of Pride combines archival footage from the 1950's 60's and 70's from Bay Area Television Archive with present-day viewpoints and reactions to these images from the past to create a compelling portrait of a community marked by struggle and fueled by hope. The film premiered at San Francisco Public Library on June 24, 2014.
See how urban renewal of the 1950's and 60's pushed black residents from the Fillmore district to Bay View. Video by Dante Higgins, originally posted in 2009 on the San Francisco Bay View website. Sixty percent of all homes are owner-occupied---almost twice as high as the rate citywide.
Bayview-Hunters Point is one of San Francisco’s oldest and most historic communities. Originally occupied by plains of coastal grasslands, hillsides covered in coastal sage scrub, and extensive marshlands, the physical character of the district has been extensively transformed from the initial contact era between Spanish explorers and the ...
