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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: January 14, 2014
Caption: The Embarcadero Freeway Marker
Additional Description: Captions (top row, from left to right): Elevated Embarcadero Roadway with Aviation Platform, 1927. Drawn by architect Louis Hobart fro the Regional Planning Association; Embarcadero Freeway as completed by February 26, 1956. Opened on February 26, 1959. Call Bulletin photograph, San Francisco Public Library; Embarcadero Freeway during commute on December 22, 1985. San Francisco Public Library; Embarcadero demolition, photographed by Fran Ortiz on April 11, 1991 for the San Francisco Examiner; Collapse of Freeway during demolition, photographed by Steve Ringman on April 17, 1991 for the San Francisco Chronicle; Darius Aidala photographed the Embarcadero Freeway in February 1991, and after the demolition from the same place in August 1991 (above and below).

Captions (bottom row, left to right): September 17, 1957. Anti-Freeway Demonstration , Golden Gate Park, Malvina Reynolds, Singer; (editorial cartoon) March 5, 1959; (editorial cartoon) 1957; Step-by-step demolition.
Submitted: January 23, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p265210
File Size: 3.395 Megabytes

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