then-and-now map

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Looking for a good overlay map showing the natural shoreline of the City and the present street alignments, especially along the Marina-North Point area.

-- John Martini (jamartini@slip.net), November 28, 2002

Answers

Here John:

Does this help?

-- Sean M. Hall (TheSanFranciscoFanclub@groups.msn.com), November 28, 2002.


Thanks, but I was looking for actual conditions. This map shows projected street layouts as of 1863, not what really exists today.

J.

-- John (jamartini@slip.net), November 28, 2002.


Ok just hurt my feelings after I went through all this trouble...

-- Sean M. Hall (TheSanFranciscoFanclub@groups.msn.com), November 28, 2002.

check out Lawson et. al. 1908 report on 1906 quake. SF History Room in the main library has a copy. Also the David Rumsey Map Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com/. This site has a great collection of maps including some very interesting charts of SF and the bay. You'll need to download a special browser and the maps are huge if you want good detail, but you should find the collection helpful.

-- robert bardell (bbardell@pacbell.net), November 29, 2002.

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