San Francisco Street Monuments
The street monuments project is an ongoing effort to document artifacts of past infrastructure on the city streets. Things like old water covers, Fire Department call boxes, sewer vents, and the like. These objects are mostly unnoticed by the general public, and I'll admit, a bit boring, but I believe they can tell something about the growth of the city. I devised a method to easily document them with mobile phone pictures, using embedded metadata to place them on a map. I've always been curious about these objects, but I didn't want to work to hard to document them. If you think you'd like to help with this effort, send me a message. - David
About
SFMemory.org is a project of David Gallagher to collect useful San Francisco and Bay Area history resources for researchers and the general public.
This site is a labor of love, a work in progress, and has no financial goal. Some of the resources presented require third-party authentication or payment to access.