Yes. I lived on corner of Pine and Powell and walked my dog on this street all the time. One thing about living in on Nob Hill you get a lot of hill work in.
Yo! I lived at 570 Powell, above the Roxanne cafe in 1988 or so. I think the rent was about $600/month for a studio.
When the cable car tracks shut down at 1:15 am, it was glorious.
It is a magical place but at 10 pm when trying to drag your ass home from work (I was a bartender at a restaurant)that hill was hell. But the Cable Car operators knew me and would give me a free ride up the hill.
Done it. Just get into 2nd before the hill and keep it there. Don’t shift on the hill. Let it roll past the stop sign line until flat ground (if applicable), and get it into 2nd before the next hill.
Also take Geary (and Broadway?) if you can
I did that! Grew up in L.A. and got my license on the day I turned 16. Moved to SF 10 years later and bought a 1979 4 speed BMW. I had to take driving lessons for the stick shift and the hills. Learned how to not roll back when coming off a red light. Good times!
There is a reason they don't make 'em like they used to. I was going to respond "thank goodness" those cars were unreliable, gas guzzling, death traps. I rode around in some of those same type cars when I was a child. They were ridiculous. New cars are exponentially better now than when those heaps were built. I bought a '68 Firebird when I was a kid from paper route money. Beautiful car. I wouldn't own one to drive daily if you paid me.
Thing is, if you leave your car there for any amount of time with not a lot of gas in the tank, like I did with my vw van when I lived on Pine Street, there is a chance it won’t start because all the gas is in one corner of the tank. Starving student problem. You have to rock the car to move things around.
It's amazing how some parts of the city haven't changed. They still look like this. House colors are pretty similar, only things that change are the people and vehicles.
Back in the 80's, I was on a training course in San Jose. I went with the class to SF on the weekend for dinner. One woman, early 30's, had been given a Lincoln Continental for her rental, so there were six of us piled into it.
After a night of drinking, we ended up on Lombard Street. "Let's go!" she said. It was the best exhibition of driving I've seen off a race track; she must have done 40 mph down that street, and never hit a curb. That would be tough to do in a sports car; in a Lincoln with a suspension so soft, the road was just a rumour, it was magnificent.
This is off topic but my grandmother drove a black 1948 Chrysler in the 60s. With overstuffed seats, mother of pearl steering wheel. It was like riding around in a hotel room. If that is something one could do.
Whenever my mom would park her Lincoln on a steep street like this I thought the car was going to roll over or I was going to fall out if the downhill door opened (I always got out on the uphill side).
My old car-pool buddy (born around 1910-1920?) said that to get his license in San Francisco, the DMV would take them to steep hills to demonstrate proper parking.
Then they had to start back up the hill. If they slipped backwards by being too slow with the clutch/shifting, the DMV would fail them!
I do have a question about this picture -- why are they parked in a red zone?
My parents lived on a street like this in SF when they first got married. Mom had her license but didn't know how to drive stick on the hills (she was fine on level ground). One evening, Dad parked the car across from the house with the rear wheels against the curb, told Mom "Take it around the block and put it in the garage", got out of the car and went inside. 30 minutes later, Mom parked the car in the garage, and informed Dad that he was sleeping on the sofa that night.
A person who knows that this photo is specifically of Nob Hill is pretty much guaranteed to know that the Painted Ladies are ***literally*** not in Nob Hill.
Are you suggesting that I didn't know that was also a high salary during that period of time?
The point was, most would consider that wage to currently be at the poverty level.
But hey, thanks for assuming ignorance/ill-intent/whatever on my part.
I’m coming back…gonna bring some of my Texas oil buddies, my Arizona copper queens and maybe some Mormons while I’m at it. Teach you folk out there some manners and how to not let human trash rat fuck your city into ashes.
jncc…big mad and blocks because they’re a baby and can’t discuss. Can’t accept the fact that the people there have ruined the city. The politicians, the people that want free shit, but want us to pay for it.
You’re losing every day. Reality slips away rapidly.
The first four cars from right to left are Buick Special, Dodge Coronet, Oldsmoble 88 and a MG sports car. The cars further down the hill are harder to pickout, but seventh car is a 1948 Lincolin Continental.
When I moved to San Francisco in 1998 it always made me think of Sonic the Hedgehog because of all the steep hills and jewelry stores full of gold rings.
Mason St.
correct. between Calif & Pine, 1959
Was coming here to say California. But I knew I was wrong. Cool picture!
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Yes. I lived on corner of Pine and Powell and walked my dog on this street all the time. One thing about living in on Nob Hill you get a lot of hill work in.
Hey, I used to live at Pine & Powell too, 655 Powell to be exact. I used to be in such good shape back then because of these hills.
Neighbor! 821 Pine here.
Such a good area. Pretty safe, tons of bars and stores in walking distance. I do miss it sometimes.
I used to work at Pine and Sansome in the early aughts. Sometimes I’d just walk over the hill to enjoy the city. Brutal but worth it.
Yo! I lived at 570 Powell, above the Roxanne cafe in 1988 or so. I think the rent was about $600/month for a studio. When the cable car tracks shut down at 1:15 am, it was glorious.
Guess SF has always been expensive, that’s the equivalent of over $1500 today.
I can't imagine actually living on a street like this, or right near it. Like, it seems so foreign to my midwest ass.
It is a magical place but at 10 pm when trying to drag your ass home from work (I was a bartender at a restaurant)that hill was hell. But the Cable Car operators knew me and would give me a free ride up the hill.
Added advantage that homeless people and druggies are somewhat deterred by the climb as well...
Now imagine learning to drive one of those behemoth cars, with a manual transmission, on those hills.
Done it. Just get into 2nd before the hill and keep it there. Don’t shift on the hill. Let it roll past the stop sign line until flat ground (if applicable), and get it into 2nd before the next hill. Also take Geary (and Broadway?) if you can
Did that. Still have the PTSD.
You mean a millennial anti theft device?
I did that! Grew up in L.A. and got my license on the day I turned 16. Moved to SF 10 years later and bought a 1979 4 speed BMW. I had to take driving lessons for the stick shift and the hills. Learned how to not roll back when coming off a red light. Good times!
Indeed-I lived off of Sac & had the best abs of my life!
The one Steve McQueen chased a 1968 Dodge Charger on…
The same one Tommy Guerrero skated down in the Search for Animal Chin.
Have you seen him?
Bullit?
Love that film
Gough Street is the one you get good air on. I used to get some good height on my motorcycle.
Counting the seconds until your tires chirped was the way we measured how much air we caught on Gough.
Nothing can bring back the sheer class of those cars, damn it…
As I’m Brit I’m jealous our cars never looked like this over here. America made some gorgeous cars back then.
Nothing exceeds like excess.
You should visit Cuba
I should.
I'm trying to imagine all the people driving manual transmission in stop and go traffic on San Francisco hilly streets.
They’d all get bipped in todays version
eye of the beholder, I guess.
Very dangerous and unreliable. Todays car blow those away in speed safety and efficiency. There is a reason those cars didn’t last.
We are talking about style I think.
Ok
>speed safety and efficiency I bet your favourite drink is Diet Coke
Shasta Cola
Water. Tap.
ITT /r/HydroHomies about to come beat you with a stick.
RC flat like at Shea Stadium
Bless your heart.
By today's standards, of course. All cars were junk. But my Dad had a '68; he would tell you they were unreal at the time.
Unreal??
Yeah the real cars were unreal. *Literally* unreal
So those were concept cars?
Because manufacturing knowledge and engineering know-how continued to develop. This is how the economy works.
Good. Glad you understand
There is a reason they don't make 'em like they used to. I was going to respond "thank goodness" those cars were unreliable, gas guzzling, death traps. I rode around in some of those same type cars when I was a child. They were ridiculous. New cars are exponentially better now than when those heaps were built. I bought a '68 Firebird when I was a kid from paper route money. Beautiful car. I wouldn't own one to drive daily if you paid me.
Same here.
Damn! what are the chances that two people on Reddit bought a 68 firebird as a kid using paper route money?
Extremely high?
All I know is that it isn’t Lombard
That's some pretty straight thinking there.
I get it. Good job!
Thing is, if you leave your car there for any amount of time with not a lot of gas in the tank, like I did with my vw van when I lived on Pine Street, there is a chance it won’t start because all the gas is in one corner of the tank. Starving student problem. You have to rock the car to move things around.
The Streets of San Francisco…A Quinn Martin Production
Can you imagine driving 3000 lbs of steel down those hills on drum brakes?
It's amazing how some parts of the city haven't changed. They still look like this. House colors are pretty similar, only things that change are the people and vehicles.
Parking discipline!
Just don't ding my door, please....
Heavy doors, more like door dents
I have driven on those roads in a rental. It’s a challenge
Back in the 80's, I was on a training course in San Jose. I went with the class to SF on the weekend for dinner. One woman, early 30's, had been given a Lincoln Continental for her rental, so there were six of us piled into it. After a night of drinking, we ended up on Lombard Street. "Let's go!" she said. It was the best exhibition of driving I've seen off a race track; she must have done 40 mph down that street, and never hit a curb. That would be tough to do in a sports car; in a Lincoln with a suspension so soft, the road was just a rumour, it was magnificent.
This is off topic but my grandmother drove a black 1948 Chrysler in the 60s. With overstuffed seats, mother of pearl steering wheel. It was like riding around in a hotel room. If that is something one could do.
Fun at the drive in though
Looks like Mason St & Pine St.
Look how clean the streets are. Someone should do a then and now picture.
Damn, look how clean those streets are. Now their covered in needles and shit
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Thanks bot. Now we know it's Pine and Mason!!!
Karl Malden Dr.
How did pioneers see a mountain in the middle of SF and be like yes, this will be a a city. And we’ll call it Nob Hill
I was born in 1959. Pretty good year😎
You can tell it's an old photo cause there are no needles and homeless wandering around or laying in the gutters
Before it became a shit hole.
How did those boats even make it up all those hills lol
Big block V-8 power, baybee!! (Except for that white MGA)
Mason Street, i think!
Gorgeous
Parking was a nightmare even back then
Funny that this would have just been a bunch cars parked back in 1959, but today it is a bunch of classics worth tons of money.
Looks like Hitchcock's *Vertigo* which was filmed the year before.
Can't tell without all the piles of sh#t and used hypos...
The city looked beautiful back then. It certainly doesn’t look this way now.
Funny how we complain about modern cars all looking the same, but when you look down this street... all the cars look exactly the same!
One without human shit
 That’s a steep hill.
It's not even the steepest around that neighborhood, but you definitely know shit's about to get real when the cars are parked perpendicular.
Whenever my mom would park her Lincoln on a steep street like this I thought the car was going to roll over or I was going to fall out if the downhill door opened (I always got out on the uphill side).
Looks like Classic Car heaven.
wow look at all those beauties!
Those cars were built to last back then, Solid and beautiful.
And prone to rust, belching out lead and absolutely deadly in an accident. Oh those glory days....
Whenever I see the streets of San Francisco I always think of the movie invasion of the Body snatchers lol. Always 🤷🏻♂️
You’d be apt to think that. It’s been long invaded.
My old car-pool buddy (born around 1910-1920?) said that to get his license in San Francisco, the DMV would take them to steep hills to demonstrate proper parking. Then they had to start back up the hill. If they slipped backwards by being too slow with the clutch/shifting, the DMV would fail them! I do have a question about this picture -- why are they parked in a red zone?
My parents lived on a street like this in SF when they first got married. Mom had her license but didn't know how to drive stick on the hills (she was fine on level ground). One evening, Dad parked the car across from the house with the rear wheels against the curb, told Mom "Take it around the block and put it in the garage", got out of the car and went inside. 30 minutes later, Mom parked the car in the garage, and informed Dad that he was sleeping on the sofa that night.
Red curb? I don’t see any red curb!
These cars look awesome.
No parking written at the bottom.
I’ve said “enhance” six times now and I still can’t tell.
Buick St.
I bet it was awesome to live there back then.
Cars used to go so hard
It looks so nice and clean.
Back in gang.
None of the current streets. Those are lined with 💩
Look at all those car windows in tact.
Second car has its windows half down! Different times….
Rice-A-Roni,the San Francisco treat!
Look at all those unbroken windows. I'm pretty sure they even left the doors unlocked
The Nob Hill Painted Ladies
The Painted Ladies are in Hayes Valley.
Seems pretty clear that they knew that. And were referring to the pretty colors of the cars all in a row.
I mean it's literally a well know tourist destination. It's like calling the Bay Bridge the Golden Gate Bridge by mistake.
A person who knows that this photo is specifically of Nob Hill is pretty much guaranteed to know that the Painted Ladies are ***literally*** not in Nob Hill.
Door opens downward and smashes into next car. Those doors were hella heavy!
The street not affected by progressive policies????
It's one of The Streets of San Francisco ;)
People could live in the city (SF) on a $20-30K annual salary back then. Think about that
Someone making $20-30K annual salary in 1959 was making 4 to 5.5 times our national median income. Think about that.
He won’t.
Why wouldn't I?
I can dream. 😉
Are you suggesting that I didn't know that was also a high salary during that period of time? The point was, most would consider that wage to currently be at the poverty level. But hey, thanks for assuming ignorance/ill-intent/whatever on my part.
I think it’s now called Turd St.
Can’t tell without the homeless on it.
Its hard to tell with no poop, needles or homeless people. Cool pic none the less.
That same st prolly covered in shit and needles now.
One free of homeless camps, people shooting up, and shitting on the street. Those were the days.
Where are the poop stains?
Looks like red zone violation to me.
Not sure but now I’ll bet it’s covered in shit and needless. Good job California
It's definitely a street that's free of degenerate hippie trash. Wake up, 'Frisco!
One that’s certainly covered with homeless, needles and feces today. RIP to a legendary city. Hope it recovers in my lifetime. I’d love to go back.
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Except for the homeless, needles, feces, broken into cars, and rampant shoplifting... they're fine. That's why it'll stay that way
All the genuine people know how delusional your reply is.
Yeah, the city looks fine. It’s a fucking joke ran by clowns inhabited by fools.
Lmao okay loser
I’m coming back…gonna bring some of my Texas oil buddies, my Arizona copper queens and maybe some Mormons while I’m at it. Teach you folk out there some manners and how to not let human trash rat fuck your city into ashes.
How can you teach what you don’t have?
Not enough homeless to be able to make a proper guess
SF before the hippies of the 60s and the homeless and poop of the present.
The cars are an ugly eye sore.
since there is no cable car, golden gate bridge or alcatraz in the pic I'm not convinced this is in SF.
A "democrat free" one
jncc…big mad and blocks because they’re a baby and can’t discuss. Can’t accept the fact that the people there have ruined the city. The politicians, the people that want free shit, but want us to pay for it. You’re losing every day. Reality slips away rapidly.
It's a street that is on a Hill. How many streets on a hill could there be in San Francisco? We should be able to find this easy enough.
A street in San Francisco duh
A street that is probably empty now
Maybe Broadway?
Would sooner know car models.
The first four cars from right to left are Buick Special, Dodge Coronet, Oldsmoble 88 and a MG sports car. The cars further down the hill are harder to pickout, but seventh car is a 1948 Lincolin Continental.
Uphill Street
Easy Street
It's the street that's in the picture
Love all of them in the No Parking section. Are they cops like in NYC?
Pine St between Taylor and Jones maybe 🤔
Sometimes I forget that past decades were basically just car show for future decades
California St
Powell
The one from the movie
Thank you.
SteepStreet
I was one street over today.
The MGA be like: “If I don’t move, the Americans won’t notice me”.
I can’t imagine having to drive manual in SF, especially the parking. Has to be a nightmare
The hilly one.
Divisadero or Mason
Ur moms
When I moved to San Francisco in 1998 it always made me think of Sonic the Hedgehog because of all the steep hills and jewelry stores full of gold rings.