Such a great colourazation

Today In 1961: Say Hey! Willie Mays happily poses after hitting 4 home runs in one game! #MLB #Baseball #History #SFGiants

Sutter & Polk circa 1920
View north across Sutter toward the White Lunch and its delivery truck on the northeast corner. #sfhistory

“And so we picked up our bags...and staggered to the cable-car stop; in a moment rolled down the hill with our legs dangling to the sidewalk from the jiggling shelf, two broken-down heroes of the Western night.”
(Jack Kerouac, On The Road, 1957)

Rare 1912 glass plate negative of Ty Cobb.

'When I wake up in San Francisco, I know it's going to be a perfect day.'
William Saroyan

I never miss an opportunity to share Pantheon 🏛️.
📍Rome, Italy 🇮🇹

Columbia takes the No. 8 national seed‼️

The Lions will face Quinnipiac in the first round Friday!

#RoarLionRoar 🦁🎾

Good morning from Venice, Italy. 🇮🇹☕️🇮🇹

Good morning from
Vienna💙🎶
Have a lovely day🌞
Schönen Dienstag!
#Donaukanal
#Urania

Detroit's Bennett Park ca. 1907 ('Nichols for City Clerk' provides the dating) with the famous 'wildcat' bleachers--a fitting name for a club that was once was the Wolverines but became the Tigers.

The music world is eagerly awaiting a historic event that will take place in the Golden Hall: Riccardo Muti will perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on 6 and 7 May, exactly 200 years after its premiere with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Wiener Singverein ✨🎶

📸© Dieter Nagl

There's no better time to visit our sea lions! 🦭 🤍

The sea lion count has been the highest its been in 7 years, surpassing a whopping 820 sea lions (and counting)! With a steady food supply from a large school of anchovy, the sea lions are extra active!

'We learned in the magic heaped on the hills. The City is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away. Ask anyone about San Francisco, and odds are he'll tell you about himself and his eyes will be warm and inward, remembering.'
John Steinbeck, The Golden Handcuff, 1958)

#OTD in 1886, Opening Day at the Polo Grounds. Boston's Hoss Radbourn pitching, Mickey Welch at bat, Johnnie Ward on deck. Shot from stands with Kodak’s new “detective camera” by Richard Hoe Lawrence.

The Hall of Mirrors inside The Palace of Versailles in Versailles 🇫🇷

Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda, Felipe Alou, Ed Bailey and Willie McCovey

Market & Dolores, circa 1898
Hard to imagine this today, but this is a view south from Market down Dolores, Bernal Heights in the background.
The hill we now call Mint Hill once spanned Market Street, the 25 foot high remnants shown here with 14th Street cut between. #sfhistory

What Greta Garbo defined in 1932 in the film “Grand Hotel” as:
“That sunny happy place” 💫

📍Grand Hotel Tremezzo, Lake Como - Italy 🇮🇹

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