Tag: Castro
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California Volunteers Memorial on Market Street
Market Street at Dolores Mission/Castro * * * California Volunteers by Douglas Tilden – Bronze on a granite base Dedicated August 12, 1906 Erected by the Citizens of San Francisco In Honor Of The California Volunteers Spanish American War 1898 First to The Front At the end of the Spanish-American War, when the troops returned,…
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A Ross – Ziegler Collaboration
435 Duboce Duboce Triangle/ Lower Haight Ian Ross and Zio Ziegler * * * * After these two worked together on a juxtaposed mural South of Market, it was an obvious step to combine forces. The result is truly fabulous. Obviously a temporary installation while construction is occurring behind this, but you have to love the…
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S.F. Bicycle Coalition Mural
Castro/Duboce Avenue/Nob Hill Back of 2020 Market Street In 1972 BART built the Market Street subway, including Muni Metro. Along the Duboce Avenue tunnel entrance was a single eastbound lane for cars. During the 1994 closure of the street, for construction, The Bicycle Coalition worked to show that this street, which when used by…
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Homes as Canvas
Mission District Castro District 3014 22nd Street So many times I walk by homes that look like canvases. I fantasize that some wonderful artist lives in this abode. I have no way of knowing but here are a few that I have enjoyed. This is the garage door of a home at the corner of…
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Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy
Castro District Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy The “Books & Reading” Mural is located at the school’s facade. This mural is a part 1 of a triptych. Created by students with Artist in Residence Ellen Blakeley in 2000, each child drew a 4″ picture of their favorite book or a picture of themselves reading.…
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Castro – A Celebration of Love
Castro District Noe and 19th Street This is a Precita Eyes Mural. It was done in 2008 and is titled “A Celebration of Love”
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Eureka Valley Rec Center
Castro District/Eureka Valley Eureka Valley Rec Center 157 Collingwood Street Time After Time by Betsie Miller-Kusz 2005 Betsie was Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico and resides in Jemez, New Mexico. This is from her website “I paint and only paint. My installations are extensions of this act, which gives meaning to my existence.…
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Mona Caron Brings You a Garden
Noe Valley/Castro Corner of Church and 22nd Streets Botanical Mural by Mona Caron This mural is immense. It is impossible to capture it in one photo and have any idea of what is being portrayed, so I have chosen to shoot it and show it to you in sections. Mona Caron has shown up several times…
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Noe Valley — Market Street Railway Mural
Noe Valley Eureka Valley Market Street Railway by Mona Caron 300 Church Street near 15th 38′ X 12′ This is Mona Caron’s own description of this wonderful mural. The Market Street Railway mural shows a 180-degree bird’s-eye view of San Francisco’s Market Street through time. The connecting theme of the mural is the historic Market…