4th Street in San Rafael (north of San Francisco). This was a great cruise spot in the early 1980s as other Bay Area cruise spots were shut down. This one was shut down by 1985. I saw a Lola T-70 drive down this street one night in about 1982!
I like this photo because you can see the shell at the far left! Coastal battery near San Francisco:
One of the funnest places when I was a kid in the 60s/early 70s was Playland at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Built in the early 1920s and pretty run-down by 1970, it was still a great time. I can almost smell the second-hand smoke (everyone smoked in the old days, right?), the cotton candy, greasy hamburgers and the musty moldy smell of most of those old wooden buildings. It's a wonder it never caught fire. There was a slot car place on the north end of the Playland strip in the mid-60s. Playland was finally torn down in 1972 and replaced with condos. The beach is just out of shot to the right and that's the west end of Golden Gate Park beyond Playland. Note the sand dunes of the Sunset District beyond GG Park. That area was developed in the 1930s.
