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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55007614035/" title="Pier 39 - SF Fisherman&#039;s Wharf - 122625 - 09"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007614035_3802ca567e_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Pier 39 - SF Fisherman&#039;s Wharf - 122625 - 09" /></a></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55007307356/" title="Pier 39 - SF Fisherman&#039;s Wharf - 122625 - 61"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007307356_87f68c3aca_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Pier 39 - SF Fisherman&#039;s Wharf - 122625 - 61" /></a></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55007614125/" title="Pier 39 - SF Fisherman&#039;s Wharf - 122625 - 30"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007614125_6f3c9a841d_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Pier 39 - SF Fisherman&#039;s Wharf - 122625 - 30" /></a></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55007307426/" title="Pier 39 - SF Fisherman&#039;s Wharf - 122625 - 02"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007307426_2cc7416899_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Pier 39 - SF Fisherman&#039;s Wharf - 122625 - 02" /></a></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dalecruse/">dalecruse</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalecruse/55007129571/" title="Still Water at the Pyramid’s Edge"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007129571_23b18c8057_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Still Water at the Pyramid’s Edge" /></a></p> <p>Tucked just off the financial rush, this small court beneath the Transamerica Pyramid feels like a pause written into the city’s plan. Water rises and falls in a steady rhythm, contained by clean stone edges, while redwood trunks hold the space vertical and quiet. The geometry here is deliberate but humane: straight lines softened by foliage, concrete relieved by reflection, movement slowed to something closer to breath.<br /> <br /> What makes this place distinctly San Francisco is the way architecture and landscape negotiate rather than compete. The fountain doesn’t perform; it murmurs. The trees aren’t ornamental; they’re structural, shaping light and scale as much as any beam or column. Through the glass beyond, the building’s interior glows with restrained color, a reminder that even the city’s most assertive landmarks made room for intimacy at ground level.<br /> <br /> From this vantage, the Pyramid itself is mostly implied—its presence felt through proportion, not spectacle. The space works because it resists grandeur. Instead, it offers enclosure without isolation, calm without retreat. Office workers pass through, visitors linger, and the city continues just beyond the frame, slightly muted.<br /> <br /> In a downtown often defined by velocity and ambition, this pocket endures as something rarer: a civic exhale. It’s a reminder that San Francisco’s best architecture isn’t always about what rises highest, but about what stays grounded—patient, intentional, and quietly generous with space.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/thomashawk/">Thomas Hawk</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/55007112211/" title="The Summer of Love"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007112211_9fa3f5ecb5_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="The Summer of Love" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/formlight/">Form &amp; Light</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/formlight/55007255213/" title="Stormy Day on the Bay"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007255213_7ec223032f_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Stormy Day on the Bay" /></a></p> <p>San Francisco Bay, California</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/sunny16/">BECK17</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sunny16/55006178452/" title="Philz Coffee 24th Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55006178452_22b17f496a_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Philz Coffee 24th Street" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55007314765/" title="SF Chinatown - 122625 - 05"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007314765_bd9bf5e26c_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="SF Chinatown - 122625 - 05" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55007007176/" title="SF Chinatown - 122625 - 07"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007007176_d7fff5a53b_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="SF Chinatown - 122625 - 07" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55007314790/" title="SF Chinatown - 122625 - 03"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007314790_cf255b62f0_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="SF Chinatown - 122625 - 03" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/quinnanya/">quinn.anya</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/55007084158/" title="The woods"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55007084158_cc389ccd4d_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The woods" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dboo/">ndpa / s. lundeen, archivist</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/55005839682/" title="84-573"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55005839682_8dc0d1f2b5_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="84-573" /></a></p> <p>san francisco, california<br /> 1974<br /> <br /> bocaccio massage studio for men<br /> o'farrell street<br /> <br /> part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf<br /> <br /> <b>© the Nick DeWolf Foundation<br /> Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com</b></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dboo/">ndpa / s. lundeen, archivist</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/55005839717/" title="84-569"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55005839717_e270d537b1_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="84-569" /></a></p> <p>san francisco, california<br /> 1974<br /> <br /> candid, 7th street<br /> <i>(partial)</i><br /> <br /> part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf<br /> <br /> <b>© the Nick DeWolf Foundation<br /> Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com</b></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dalecruse/">dalecruse</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalecruse/55006636061/" title="Citrus &amp; Jade, Chinatown"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55006636061_0f79a8da70_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Citrus &amp; Jade, Chinatown" /></a></p> <p>Color does a lot of quiet work on this Chinatown block. Two narrow buildings stand shoulder to shoulder, their façades treated less like neutral envelopes than like confident declarations. On the left, pale butter-yellow brick is edged and articulated with deep green—balconies, window trim, railings—casting crisp shadows that sharpen the geometry. Across the seam, a warm orange wall answers back, its surface slightly weathered, its green window frames echoing the rhythm next door without matching it outright.<br /> <br /> The composition turns on that vertical divide. Cream against citrus. Brick texture against plastered smoothness. Fire-escape filigree and balcony rails floating in sunlight, balanced by recessed windows that feel calmer, heavier, more contained. Nothing here is accidental, but nothing strains for attention either. The colors do the talking, and they do it in a distinctly San Francisco way—confident, a little playful, and fully unafraid of standing out in daylight.<br /> <br /> Chinatown has always understood that buildings can carry personality without shouting. These façades feel lived-in rather than restored to perfection: paint catching the light, hairline cracks tracing time, fabric glimpsed behind glass. It’s streetscape as palette, architecture as mood.<br /> <br /> Photographed straight on, the scene becomes less about individual structures and more about how the city composes itself block by block. Color becomes the connective tissue, turning a narrow street into a shared visual conversation—one that only really works here, in this neighborhood, under this particular San Francisco sun.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dboo/">ndpa / s. lundeen, archivist</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/55006717801/" title="84-574"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55006717801_c4157ebe30_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="84-574" /></a></p> <p>san francisco, california<br /> boston, massachusetts<br /> 1974<br /> <br /> candid, street photography<br /> <i>(partials)</i><br /> <br /> part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf<br /> <br /> <b>© the Nick DeWolf Foundation<br /> Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com</b></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dboo/">ndpa / s. lundeen, archivist</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/55006981894/" title="84-568"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55006981894_dd29470a14_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="84-568" /></a></p> <p>san francisco, california<br /> 1974<br /> <br /> fire escapes<br /> bush street, 800 block<br /> <br /> part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf<br /> <br /> <b>© the Nick DeWolf Foundation<br /> Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com</b></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dboo/">ndpa / s. lundeen, archivist</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/55006888923/" title="84-570"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55006888923_a302b906dc_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="84-570" /></a></p> <p>san francisco, california<br /> 1974<br /> <br /> bumper sticker<br /> &quot;there is no gravity the earth sucks&quot;<br /> <br /> part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf<br /> <br /> <b>© the Nick DeWolf Foundation<br /> Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com</b></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/oso-vagabundo/">320-ROC</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/oso-vagabundo/55006922738/" title="N818SY at San Francisco"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55006922738_7d83ce0fae_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="N818SY at San Francisco" /></a></p> <p>Sun Country Airlines Boeing 737-8BK N818SY at San Francisco (SFO/KSFO) August 4, 2015. Arrived from Minneapolis/St. Paul as SCX 394.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/lifes__too_short__to__drink__cheap__wine/">Σταύρος</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lifes__too_short__to__drink__cheap__wine/55005681287/" title="My birthday celebration #December23"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55005681287_1fa6af8149_m.jpg" width="240" height="141" alt="My birthday celebration #December23" /></a></p>

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