Lost Bay Area Stories

To Use: Download and install Google Earth Pro Download one of the historic overlay files (ends with *.kmz). See below links. Double...

It's fascinating to take a look back at an 1850's era photo of San Jose looking north east from St, James park. Nothing seems to have...

An excerpt from early San Jose Historian, Clyde Arbuckle, on the Spanish Flu era and the wearing of masks. The statistics are a little...

"Big George" Osen, from the Edenvale neighborhood in San Jose, was the first cyclist with a "safety" styled bicycle. He drew so much...

Not in the Bay Area, but a colorized photo of the Mount Lowe Railway at Ye Alpine Tavern in 1913.

A bus built on an Atterbury truck chassis in San Francisco circa 1919.

Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods railroad photo in front of the Tavern of Tamalpais in 1913. Termed the 'Crookedest Railroad in the World"...

Oakland, California Service Station circa 1950

1940's General Motors exhibit at Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco. Transparent Car with Pontiac Chassis and Body by...

1924 Photo of a Flint Automobile with Ghiradelli Square in the background.

C.W Smiths Yum-Yum treat stand during the 1930's at Playland in San Francisco

Yosemite in the 1920's

I love old movie billboards. This one was in San Francisco in 1922. Betty Compson was a rising Hollywood startlet and had early...

About 100 years ago, legendary baseball players such as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb came to San Jose to play at Soldality Park. Here are some...