Photo credit: Orbitz | OpenSF History | Niall David via Peta Pixel
Travel booking website Orbitz recently scoured the historical photo archives of OpenSF History and the San Francisco Public Library to create their “The City by the Bay” series. Simply put, they compared photographs captured in the past with present-day photos shot in October 2018 by San Francisco-based photographer Niall David. First up, we have the Golden Gate Bridge as seen during its construction in 1935. Though the idea of a bridge spanning the Golden Gate was not new, the proposal that eventually took hold was made in a 1916 San Francisco Bulletin article by former engineering student James Wilkins. San Francisco’s City Engineer estimated the cost at $100 million, which equates to $2.12 billion today, and impractical for the time. Read more to see additional then and now photo comparisons of famous San Francisco sights.
9. City Hall (1913)
8. Old St. Mary’s Cathedral (1900)
7. Lombard Street (1922)
6. Flood Building (1904)
5. Hyde Street Pier (1975)
4. Transamerica Building (1911)
3. Sentinel Building (1915)
2. Haight Theater (1948)
1. Chinatown (1910)
