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#1381 - Fred Lyon
Golden Gate Bridge from Old Fort Point, c. 1950
"I see pictures I would like to take. I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can't believe it”
~ Fred Lyon
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#1291 - Fred Lyon
Lombard Street Grapevine, Night, from Telegraph Hill, c. 1950's/printed later
“In my city we like to think of ourselves as risk-taking, edge-of-the continent explorers, rakish and louche. For example, we go from sleazy to elegance and find that logical. San Francisco is a city noted for its liberal attitude where anything goes. I just love this place.”
~ Fred Lyon
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#1175 - Fred Lyon
Overhead View of Ocean Beach, SF, c. 1950's
"San Francisco is still a magical city. If I were a little tougher, I'd put aside that sentimental romanticism. But the city is the people, and that's what persists. Maybe it's a sickness we all have, but we keep attempting to recreate a lot of what attracted us here in the first place."
~ Fred Lyon
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#1154 - Fred Lyon
Castle Street, Coit Tower, 1947
"I see pictures I would like to take, I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can't believe it. I keep thinking I'm being softened up for something really grim. And it hasn't happened yet."
~ Fred Lyon
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#944 - Max Yavno
Powell Street, San Francisco, 1947/ Printed Later
“But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown .. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable cars whizzing down the city hills”
~ Dylan Thomas
(Poet, Writer)
1914 - 1953