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Falling in Love With … San Francisco
September 10, 2012
Somehow, San Francisco’s high-tech boom has preserved the pleasures of the city's low-tech past
Crissy Field, once an abandoned naval airfield, has been transformed into a vibrant urban waterfront park. In the background, the Warming Hut and Golden Gate Bridge. (Photograph by Alex Fradkin) The Ferry Building, opened in 1898, is now home to the city’s foremost farmers market. (Photograph by Amanda Marsalis) Dinosaur kale from Mariquita Farms holds up. (Photograph by Aya Brackett) Musicians playing outside the city’s famous Ferry Building. (Photograph by Amanda Marsalis) The city’s many cyclists can be seen along The Wiggle, a one-mile bike route that zig-zags across the city with minimal hills. (Photograph by Alex Fradkin) One of the city’s famed “Painted Ladies” — a Victorian house near Alamo Square. (Photograph by Aya Brackett) The view from atop the de Young Museum. (Photograph by Amanda Marsalis) San Francisco Bay is fed by snowmelt from the Sierra Mountains — why surfers, here at Fort Point, wear wetsuits year-round. (Photograph by Alex Fradkin)
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