- Random photos
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Franconia Street, seen from Esmeralda in 1976. -
Mission and Coleridge, looking up at the hill in the 1920s. The Maxwell automobile was advertised on the hill. -
The Alemany water flume meets the railroad tracks in 1912, with Bernal's south slope in the background. -
The McTigue stables were on the 3100 block of Mission
Helene Ferenz Critler,
1906 Earthquake Survivor
Helene Critler was one of Bernal Heights' earthquake survivors. Tom Ferenz, her great-nephew, gave a speech to his students in Half Moon Bay to mark the centenary of the earthquake and fire. Helene passed away at the age of 104 in late April 2006, not long after the centennial celebrations: Carl Nolte wrote an entertaining obituary for her in the San Francisco Chronicle.
