Sutro Heights Park - The Story Behind San Francisco's Hidden Clifftop Oasis
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2019
- Sutro Heights Park sits atop a cliffside near the edge of San Francisco, offering gorgeous views of the coastline. It's one of San Francisco's most picturesque spots, yet remains a quiet and low-key place where locals and tourists alike can take in the views of Ocean Beach and catch a gorgeous sunset.
It's also the former home of Adolph Sutro, the man allegedly owned 1/12th of San Francisco, and who transformed The Outside Lands from a pile of sand and rock to a destination the whole city would flock to.
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Joey, thank you for this wonderfully produced video using historical information to bring the past and present together. If ever you gave up your career as a content creator, you’d make a fabulous teacher!
If I could afford it, SF is the city I’d most like to live in. It’s a walker’s paradise. I’ve walked from downtown to the Golden Gate and much more. So much to see. I need to visit again while I’m still able.
Great video on Sutro Park! In 1974-75, I took 18 Sloat to end of the line on Point Lobos above Sutro Park to connect with 38 Geary to go to Star of the Sea High School on Geary. Always wondered about the park below. Explored it back then and remember the lions, Diana statue, cannon bases and awesome view of Ocean Beach and Great Highway. Also remember seeing a portion of black/white tile flooring from Sutro Mansion. In 1983, my fiancé proposed to me at Sutro Park. Love your exquisite sunset scene of ocean beach. Your videos are awesome - keep up the great work, SF history buff! BTW, what school do you attend?
Great video. I live at 42nd and Anza. I have walked to and around Sutro Park probably hundreds of times by now and consider it a beautiful, special and largely undiscovered park. Great location for sunsets. FYI, the visitor center overlooking the Sutro Bath ruins has excellent old photos and videos of the area. Worth checking out whenever they reopen. Thanks for recording the history and stories of the area!
J - I'm actually old enuf to have visited playland when it was Playland. No matter. And is there still a windmill near Ocean Beach? And the "Veteran's Lodge"? I didn't get out there often. I do remember that in, um, 1984, my schooner was stolen from Sausalito and beached at Land's End after GGNRA guys rode their horses way out into the surf and captured the guy, then saved our lives by radioing the USCG to come and get us, and the boat. That was a crummy Sunday.
Joey!! Huge applause for your amazing Richmond district video!! An award winning documentary!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
totally agree. Joey has an incredible creative mind. plus he's intelligent.
i can't believe i have never been there. more content please!
Used to attend USF decades ago, Ocean beach was my favorite spot , dine at cliff house numerous times, great memories!
This is so well shot, beeeaautiful camera work!!
I lived on Point Lobos in the late 1980s. I loved hanging out at Sutro Park. Many years later, a friend/neighbor I met while living there left his wishes that I scatter his ashes in Sutro Park. I got a permit and did so.
Wait...there's a park on top of that hill behind Ocean Beach? Hot damn.
So happy I found your channel. Love it
Great Work, Joey ~ I have lived in the Outer Richmond since 1966, and appreciate your excellent videos and the historical information you are sharing about our neighborhood. Thank you ~ I look forward to seeing more :-)
Thank you for making this story I had no idea the history behind Sutro Heights Park! Please make more of these they are amazing and keep up the good work!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shalom SF!!!!!!!
Loved part 2, Joey! LOL the ending
Thanks for a great story. Great video editing, too. Great stuff all around.
great video! thanks for the history
nice job!!! the water drip system he built is still very impressive. thanks.
That's a great spot , been there whenever visiting
Love your work, Joey! I only wish your videos were a lot longer :-).
Great video! Who the hell would hit a thumbs down (2)?
It's about San Francisco. There are members of a certain political class who's knees jerk at the very mention of the name. :)
Outstanding work! I"m curious, how did you mic your outdoor shots? I didn't see a clip on and it looks like you shot them by yourself. The sound was so clean!!
Thank you 😊
Bravó.
My phone background is a shot of those three rocks near the Sutro Baths that have a hole shaped like a heart.
It would be very cool if some modern philanthropist or successful business entity were to have an accurate reproduction built by local artists / craftspersons and installed of the gates shown at 00:56 .
Can’t find the video of cliff house and sutro bath - can you put links in the bottom under vid as promised
Oh! You have a thing about Playland?
Some day you could talk about the well-known Jews of San Francisco, like Sutro and Fleishacker and Strauss and Gump and others. Their names are found all over The City. The irony is that San Francisco's Jews were very assimilationist so, unlike the Jews of Los Angeles or even San Jose, left no legacy of Orthodoxy.
And there are the famous Italians like Giannini and Ghirardelli. I wonder how many other ethnic groups have left major impacts on The City. A lot to be sure including famous Black Americans. How about it!
PS There are also the iconic department stores that were destroyed by investment companies. Gumps, the White House, the City of Paris and so many others. The old Gump's was my favorite with its creaky wooden floors and rooms of carved semi-precious stones that looked like museums but all of the art was for sale. It was amazing. And you could practice speaking French in Normandy Lane in the lower level of the City of Paris. Je m'en souviens.
My mother worked at Gumps as the pbx operator for about 20 years
@@bartonpercival3216 I hope she has fond memories of the old store. I went to the new one - and found it to be merely a store, no longer the destination it had been. Alas.
@@Zeyev Yeah my mother has passed on in 1998, and her mother, (my grandmother) worked at H.Lebises and The White House in Union Square. It was a very different generation back then in the late 50's and early 60's
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The house was tron down in the 1930s as a make work program, Sutro made 750,000 dollars off the tunnel, mainly in stock, the law suits continued long after his death.
love your videos so far! some constructive criticism: i would have appreciate a bit broader historical context (i.e. context of the california genocide en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_genocide) regarding "blasting holes into mountains" and sutro "giving [the land] back to the people of San Francisco" #landback
look out for more comments from in your other videos, seems like im about to binge a few haha
It should be noted that the Sutro Tunnel is not in California. It drains water from mines and enabled the extraction of great amounts of silver for which the mine owners were glad to pay.
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