Comments on: Grandpa’s archives: San Francisco Chronicle aerial photo ca. 1949

By: richard - sparkletack

richard - sparkletack — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:20:34 +0000

@Frosty: Okay, so this is exactly why I post this kind of thing, to draw people out of the woodwork who’ve actually participated in the history of San Francisco.

So cool!

Thanks SO MUCH for contributing your recollections of working with this photo. I can just picture you guys out on the lawn with the hose … absolutely priceless.

By: A.C. "Frosty" Frothingham

A.C. "Frosty" Frothingham — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:15:46 +0000

In 1954 while on active duty as a US Coast Guard Photographers mate,this negative was brought to our photo lab in Alameda, we were ordered to make eight 4′ X 8′ reproductions on matte paper that we had to special order from Eastman Kodak!

Enlarging the picture was a challenge for our laboratory equipment! It was quite a dance as we “held back” and “burned in” certain sections. The paper was too large to fit into our regular trays, so we wet it first and folded it carefully and then by hand swabbed the picture! Afterwards we took them out on the lawn and washed all the chemicals off with a hose and hung them out in the sun to dry!

One of the pictures was specially framed and mounted in the SF Airport terminal!

I subsequently switched services and retired from the Army at the Presidio of SF. I was quite surprised when a friend sent me this picture and article. Fantastic! My partner in the lab was PH1 Jim Holman! He was the lead and I was the grunt! Thanks for posting this neat picture from long ago, woke up a lot of memories!

Frosty aye aye

By: R Duncan

R Duncan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:01:41 +0000

Beautiful photograph! A great find.

By: Печати Штампы

Печати Штампы — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:06:45 +0000

Great photo! Fantastic!

By: EB

EB — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:13:59 +0000

What a fantastic find! So the love of San Francisco is genetic apparently.

By: Pacific Tides » Shasta From The Bay

Pacific Tides » Shasta From The Bay — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:23:35 +0000

[...] on Sparkletack is a post about an amazing photo of the Bay Area… it’s an aerial photo taken in 1949 [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:16:27 +0000

This is an amazing photo – we’ve just been at Shasta and that is a looong drive from San Francisco. Great find!

By: Aerial photo of 1949 San Francisco

Aerial photo of 1949 San Francisco — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:24:55 +0000

[...] This photo was taken in 1949 by San Francisco Chronicle photographer Barney Peterson. It was discovered by the Sparkletack blogger Richard Miller’s aunt among his grandfather’s archives. The photo is copyright the Chronicle, but I hope they won’t mind my posting this small version; the image links to the Sparkletack post. [...]