Containers:

Items 416-452; Boxes 1, 3, 5

Extent:

37 items

Scope and content:

Contains photographs of the front and back area of the SERC boathouse at the foot of Van Ness Avenue, the foot of Larkin Street, and the foot of Hyde Street.

There is one photograph of men standing in front of the boathouse at an unknown location: it is possibly when the boathouse was at the foot of 16th Street, but this could not be verified. There are no photographs of the boathouse at the end of Third Street.

Other photographs include a copy of a photograph taken in 1880 showing Black Point and the corner of Bay Street and Hyde Street, a cable car on Hyde Street, sunbathers on Aquatic Park Beach, and Opening Day on the Bay.

Black-and-white and color photographic prints and negatives.

Biographical / historical:

The club had their boathouse in various locations over the years.

The following is a chronology of the boathouse locations.

Chronology

Date	Event
1873-1904	End of Third Street until the summer of 1904.
1904-1908	Foot of 16th Street near the Arctic Oil Wharf until late 1908.
1908-Jul/Aug 1927	Foot of Van Ness.
Jul/Aug 1927-Dec 6, 1937	Foot of Larkin.
Dec 7, 1937-present	Hyde Street and Jefferson Street.

There were dual towers on back side of boathouse until around 1964, when a fire destroyed the left one (which was never rebuilt) (Pickelhaupt, 50). The boathouse was painted rust with green trim and a green shamrock in the 1960s. Around 1975, it was repainted white with red trim.

Source: Pickelhaupt, Bill. 2005. San Francisco's Aquatic Park. San Francisco: Arcadia Publishing.

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Contents

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