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14,577 San Francisco 1970s Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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golden gate bridge spanning san francisco bay - san francisco 1970s stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Golden Gate Bridge spanning San Francisco Bay

Marijuana is smoked while "Day on the Grass" "smoke-in" participants bask in the sunshine in Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, Calif. On May 28,...

SFChronicle420Day

san francisco, california, skyline from coit tower 1974 - san francisco 1970s stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

San Francisco, California, skyline from Coit Tower 1974

Gay activists march in the Gay Freedom Day parade in San Francisco.

Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco

American politician Dianne Feinstein, her arms outstretched in celebration, in her office after she was elected mayor of San Francisco, at San...

Dianne Feinstein, American Politician

View of Telegraph Hill, with Coit Tower at top right, San Francisco, California, circa 1975.

View of American politician San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Dianne Feinstein during an unspecified event, San Francisco, California, June...

Dianne Feinstein At An Event

Young boy approaches a Powell and Mason Street Line cable car at the Powell Street turntable, located near One Powell Street, in downtown San...

Powell Street Cable Car

Photograph of two women at a party who are both wearing white tops and have short hair styles, they are both smiling while standing at a bar and...

Two Women Wearing White

Retired sign painter turned artist-philosopher Peter Mason Bond converted his house into the Pemabo's Peace Garden circa December, 1969 in San...

Pemabo's Peace Garden

American political activist and academic Angela Davis raises her fist as she speaks at Glide Church, San Francisco, California, July 20, 1975.

Angela Davis Speaks At Glide Church

golden gate bridge and san francisco from marin headlands 1974 - san francisco 1970s stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco from Marin Headlands 1974

Nudist sunbathe at the Devil's Slide Free Beach in San Mateo County circa October, 1974 south of San Francisco, California.

Devil's Slide Free Beach

Street of San Francisco, California overlooking the bay in the seventies.

San Francisco In The Seventies

Pilot - Airdate: September 16, 1972. TROLLEY CARS ON LOCATION IN SAN FRANCISCO

TROLLEY CARS ON LOCATION IN SAN FRANCISCO

Hyde Street cable car makes its way up Russian Hill in San Francisco, California, on June 21st, 1974. In the background is San Francisco Bay.

A Cable Car In San Francisco

19th Century Queen Anne style house on a hill in San Francisco, California, circa 1975.

San Franciscan Architecture

Black and white photograph of an African-American family at their home, patriarch sitting, his wife, son, and granddaughter standing behind him, San...

Philanthropist Ann Getty, the wife of millionaire oil tycoon Gordon Getty, with two of their four sons, Andrew 1967 - 2015, left) and Billy, at their...

Ann Getty And Sons

George Lucas, US film director, posing between two cars, with 'Mel's Drive-in' in the background, on the set of 'American Graffiti', San Francisco,...

Young couple holds a picnic basket while walking through Golden Gate Park circa February, 1969 in San Francisco, California.

Golden Gate Park

Group of people yell during an Anti-War Rally demonstration at the Fairmont Hotel circa 1973 in San Francisco, California.

Man walks down a street past a steep hill in downtown San Francisco, California, with signage advertising Dole bananas at Lunardi's supermarket...

San Francisco Street

Costumed reveller attends the seventh annual Gay Freedom Day Parade on June 25, 1978 in San Francisco, Calif.

Seventh Annual Gay Freedom Day Parade

Cars and a Yellow cab taxi drive up and down Hyde Street in San Francisco, California, United States circa 1970. A cable car on the Powell-Hyde Line...

Hyde Street In San Francisco

The gateway arch at Grant and Bush streets is completed. The Arch will be a symbolic entrance to San Francisco's Chinatown community. Photographed...

SFChronicleHistoric

Protest meeting is seen on the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets on October 22, 1970 in San Francisco, Calif.

HaightAshbury/SummerOfLove

young boy riding bicycle - san francisco 1970s stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Young boy riding bicycle

Participants at a Gay Pride gathering, San Francisco, California, early 1970s.

Gay Pride Gathering

M going to really depressed if this old theater in the Castro District isn't still there ...

CASTRO THEATRE (Jan. 8, 1971): I'm going to really depressed if this old theater (built in 1922) in the Castro District isn't still there ...

People hold up American flags and protest to "Free the Presidio 27 Demonstration" circa March, 1969 in San Francisco, California. Presidio mutiny was...

Presidio Mutiny

Participant at a Gay Pride gathering in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, circa 1972.

Gay Pride Participant

View of several of adults and a group of children under and around a geodesic dome at the Unity Fair in McLaren Park, San Francisco, California,...

Hippies At The Unity Fair

Night-time scene outside Mel's Drive-In in San Francisco, California, from the film 'American Graffiti', 1973. The film was directed by George Lucas.

American Graffiti

Aerial view, looking east, with the World Trade Center and the New York City skyline in the distance, of Montgomery Street in downtown Jersey City,...

Aerial View Looking East At New York City From Jersey City

Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead performs live at Golden Gate Park in 1975 in San Francisco, California.

Jerry Garcia Performs Live

The sons of millionaire oil tycoon Gordon Getty, Andrew , on chair) Billy and John, decorating a Christmas tree and wrapping gifts at their home in...

Getty Family Christmas

floatplane flying over san francisco - san francisco 1970s stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Floatplane Flying over San Francisco

San Francisco: Volunteers, most of them young people from around the San Francisco Bay area, shovel and rake oil-soaked straw at beach just off St....

Volunteers Cleaning up Oil-Soaked Straw

San Francisco, CA- Contrasts in backhands show as Billie Jean King displays orthodox form against opponent Chris Evert who uses both hands during...

Billie Jean King Using Her Backhand

Stevie Nicks performs with Fleetwood Mac at the Cow Palace in December 1979 in San Francisco, California.

Fleetwood Mac Live

John Ertola, left, shakes hands with Dianne Feinstein as he hands over the gavel on January 8, 1970. Ertola retires as president of the San Francisco...

Feinstein Receives the Gavel

View of American comedian and activist Dick Gregory as he speaks during the Continental Walk Rally in Union Square, San Francisco, California,...

Dick Gregory At The Continental Walk Rally

Pedestrian traffic and business dropped in San Francisco's Chinatown district in the wake of the Golden Dragon Restaurant shooting just days before...

Light Traffic on Grant Avenue

African American men at a party laughing and smiling, San Francisco, California, 1978. .

African American Men At A Party Laughing And Smiling

Meanwhile, skateboarding -- a sport which originated in California -- went unnoticed, even though skateboarding has been a popular sport for decades,...

Meanwhile, skateboarding -- a sport which originated in California -- went unnoticed

Demonstrators in wheelchairs picket lobby of the Federal Building as they concluded their first week of a sit-in in offices of HEW department, in...

a day in vintage san francisco - san francisco 1970s stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

A day in vintage San Francisco

Aerial view of Southern San Francisco, California, with homes visible among hills, 1978.

San Francisco Aerial

The Streets of San Francisco" - 8/8/73

THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO

Glen Fry, Timothy Schmit and Don Henley of The Eagles at Day On The Green concert featuring The Eagles at Oakland Coliseum in San Francisco,...

Brad Elterman Archive

Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood perform in concert in San Francisco.

Stevie Nicks Singing in Concert

Little girl belly dances during the Black Point Renaissance Pleasure Faire circa August, 1974 in San Francisco, California.

Renaissance Pleasure Faire

Supporters de Patricia Hearst manifestant suite à son arrestation le 18 septembre 1975 à San Francisco.

L'Affaire De L'Enlèvement De Patty Hearst

People walk down Market Street past Grodin's, at the corner of Market and Ellis, in downtown San Francisco, California, 1978. .

Man with sunglasses poses for a portrait in front of a dining room restaurant with a "No Hippies Allowed" sign circa 1968 in San Francisco,...

No Hippies Allowed

Police officer arresting protestors in a street, San Francisco, California, 1970.

Police Officer Arresting

Nighttime view of the neon-illuminated exterior of the 'Off Broadway' pornography theater, which advertises 'Male & Female Love Act' and 'Exotic Lady...

'Exotic Lady Wrestlers, Six Matches Nightly'

The Thrill Killers" - Airdate: September 30, 1976. MICHAEL DOUGLAS;RICHARD HATCH;KARL MALDEN

MICHAEL DOUGLAS;RICHARD HATCH;KARL MALDEN

Tong's Restaurant, one of the many chinese restaurants in Chinatown, San Francisco.

Chinese Restaurant

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