The is Ron Elliott. A 64-year-old retired commercial diver, who for the last 30 years has been diving, solo and without a shark cage, off...

San Francisco has more than 220 public parks and places, including 3,400 acres of open space. And this spring, they're looking...

Imaginative sculptures outside the Ortega Street public library, 39th Avenue & Ortega.

An icon from the 1960's counterculture: A vintage Volkswagen microbus. Music to fashion, much of that counterculture sprang from San...

Spring has sprung at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. Meanwhile, Game 1 of the 2019 Season, Giants vs Padres @ San Diego,...

A three-wheeled electric "Tuk Tuk" vehicle. Around the 1980's the pulled rickshaw evolved into a motorized vehicle. They became popular...

It's not your classic movie palace, but it is a unicorn: A small independent movie theater in San Francisco. This is the 4Star on 23rd...

WWII in San Francisco. Blackouts, air raid warnings ending in a death, scrap metal drives, ration stamps -- and warning shots fired over...

EXT: Deep in Golden Gate Park, late afternoon Fade up on lush green foliage, a badly weathered iron pipe protrudes. Camera slowly pulls...

Window display of new neighborhood store specializing in quirky SF-centric clothing. I believe I recognize the gold jacket as 49ers gear,...

These are the reservation pick-up shelves of the small SF Public Library two blocks from my apartment. Look at all those neighborhood...

The first photo shows Larsen Park on 19th Avenue in the mid-1970's. The children's playground featured a decommissioned navy fighter for...

The exclusive Sea-Cliff neighborhood offers drop-dead views of the entrance to SF Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. And based on the...

For decades, this was the Aaron Brothers frame shop on 20th Avenue & Geary. I bought countless ready-made frames here (including their...

Any longtime San Franciscan can spot the profile of a DPT GO-4 Interceptor a block away. Even under a canvas tarp. On 21st Avenue in the...

A new report says more than 400 homeless people have died on the streets of SF since 2016. Most of them never saw the inside of a...

Flanagan's Pub, extreme outer Sunset District.

Outer Ortega Street in the Sunset District, SF.

This is the enlisted men's quarters in the Civil War-era Fort Point, at the south anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge. Some great period...

We'll call this a pedestrian compass. It's embedded in the walkway of the lookout vista at Lands End. Most people never see it, because...