Neighborhoods - Calles and Patios

Print, Photographic
1993-156-01
Tents
This black and white photograph is of the tent village on Upton Beach on the Calles. Noted on the back, "1910-1920, Willow Camp Tents, at Upton Beach (The Patios)". There are about 12 tents and the roof of the Charles Lauff cabin is visible behind th... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-172-01
Aerial View of Stinson Beach
A color aerial photograph of Stinson Beach, dated Oct.1966 on the back. 3x5 inch size. An original print. The photo shows the town of Stinson Beach looking from above the ocean, showing the surf, Calles, Highlands, Old Town above Highway One and Call... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-215-01
SB Hwy 1 and Panoramic
Panoramic view of Stinson Beach in 1952 taken from above the intersection of Hwy 1 and Panoramic Hwy. Undeveloped sand spit, full causeway and all the buildings are visible. Bolinas Bay and Bolinas Lagoon are seen in the upper left hand of the pictur... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-216-01
SB Panorama 1951
This original black and white photograph is a panoramic view of Stinson Beach, taken in 1951, from White Gate Ranch, or above existing houses of Panoramic Hwy. It shows the sweep of sandy shore of Bolinas Bay on the left with Bolinas Lagoon on the ri... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-217-01
SB Panorama 1952
An original black and white print of a panoramic view of Stinson Beach taken 1952 from White Gate Ranch. It is essentially the same view as that in 1993-21-01, with the same features but taken from higher up, hence Pt. Reyes is more visible and the o... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-222-01
Flood 1956
A black and white photographic print of the flood of 1956 taken of Eskoot Creek at Calle del Onda/ Hwy 1. Shows flooded bridge at the entrance of Calle del Onda and houses on North (west) side of the Calle. A bush, California Willow, to the left side... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-223-01
Storm Flood
This black and white photograph of flood waters from the 1956 storm shows damage in the Calles and to buildings. One person is at fence near Elwood's. Debris is piled in foreground.... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-230-01
neighborhoods-Calles
This black and white photographic print is an overview (L to R) of Calles Onda, Resaca, Ribera and Embarcardero in the 1970s.The ocean is in the background, Calle del Arroyo in the foreground.There are houses along Onda, Resaca, and Ribera.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-292-01
Panorama, Hwy. 1 and Panoramic
This black and white photograph is a panorama of Stinson Beach at the intersection of Hwy.1 and Dipsea Trail (now Panoramic Hwy.). In the background is the town, with Willow Camp tents on Upton Beach (now the Calles). ... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-305-01
Besieged Houses
A black and white photograph of Von Kugelgan house (Lee and Nancy Von Kugelgan) , center, and Boyle house, white square house on right standing in stormy surf with debris in front taken during the storm of 1983 by Barrie Stebbings, local photographer... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-307-01
Flood of 1983
A black and white photograph of the Stinson Beach flood of 1983, in which floods from the ocean swells bring debris from the Boyle house through the Calles to Hwy. 1. The picture is taken from Calle de Resaca. Wood debris and water are in the foregro... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-308-01
Storm ruined house
Black and white photo view of destroyed house from beach side, showing effect of undermining of the foundations, the force of water taking off the front of house. Some rattan blinds, though battered, still hang in front. Debris in front lies against... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-309-01
Tidal Flooding of Calle del Resaca
A black and white photograph of tidal waters rushing up the street. In the left foreground are 2 unidentified people standing by Barbara Ward's fence. In the left background is the northernmost half of Syd Boyle's house (the house was split in half... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-350-01
Camping on Stinson Beach
This is a photo of a tent encampment on Stinson Beach, taken from above. The foreground shows a large rock and some vegetation. At midground, 8 unpaved roads divide the campground with tents set up in straight rows plus several small structures.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-351-01
Archie Upton's Tent City
A photographic print of Archie Upton's tent city, looking out toward the ocean. There are two automobiles parked along the road, Calle del Sierra. Upton's log cabin is mid-picture with the white cabin-like tents to the right. (See 1993-350-01) ... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-456-01
Early Stinson Beach
A very early black and white photograph-postcard of the stretch of beach on Bolinas Bay and a road (present Calle del Arroyo) running behind it with shorter roads branching off of it towards the water. Except for the first branch road on the left t... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-483
Watching the surf
A color photograph of a gray shingled house up on pilings with a deck extending out toward the surf. A man and a woman are standing at the deck rail looking out to the ocean.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-484
Houses under Siege
A color photograph of a gray shingled house with a deck, on the right.behind it to the left can be seen the deck of another, darker house and behind that the roof line and windows of yet another house. Beyond that is a dark structure that appears to... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-515-01
Aerial Panorama of Stinson Beach
B&W aerial view photograph of Stinson Beach showing cluster of homes on the hills and in the Calles along the beach. Long stretch of beach and ocean in foreground.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-536
Smith house hillside panorama
Panorama of Bolinas Bay as viewed from hillside looking toward town. House are visible in the Calles/Patios. Smith house on right overlooks the town and view of Bolinas to the north. Smith house built in late 1920s by Dorothy Smith is white stucco... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-540
Flood of 1956
In the foreground is Highway 1 which is flooded and the flood extends off to the left up to several houses in the background. In the right background is Elwood's Restaurant which is at the corner of Calle Del Arroyo which is also flooded and houses... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-587
1940 high tide in Calles
Debris of wood, sand and mud litters foreground after 1940 high tide in the Calles. Millie Deisler's house on Calle del Ribera is the first house on the left facing the ocean. Three or 4 other houses to the right are also visible.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-769
Stinson Beach Town
This color aerial photograph of the town of Stinson Beach is mounted on cardboard. It shows the beach itself and the bay in the upper left corner with the sandspit as far as the end of the man-made Seadrift lagoon and the Seadrift houses paralleling... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-114
Boliinas Bay Panorama
This is a black and white panoramic view of Bolinas Bay, apparently taken from the air. In the foreground are the hills sloping down to the beach with buildings clustered in the lower hills and along the beach above the water line. In the upper le... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-382-01
Upton Log Cabin
Black and white photograph of a log cabin built by Archie Upton in 1935. It is a log structure with slanted roof sitting on short pilings in the sand. Beyond it is a smaller, taller house by Robinson Upton. A vintage automobile, dark body with whi... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-383-01
Charles & Marian Upton
Black and white photograph of Marian Upton sitting with her son, Charles, in the dune grasses of Stinson Beach. She is holding a large teddy bear on her lap. He son is sitting by her side looking away from her and Teddy. He's wearing a light color... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1996-109-01
Epperson Collage
This black and white photograph is a collage made up of 3 photographs of the Epperson family. The upper left photo is of a man and two children, a boy and a girl, standing in front of a statue of a man. The boy is on the left. He is shown from th... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1997-104-01
Calle del Resaca
Sepia tone landscape of beach houses nestled on the far side of dune grasses and at the base of the mountain. Photo appears to be taken from Calle del Resaca facing south. One house in particular with stone chimney (at the end of Calle del Onda) ha... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1997-115-01
Bolinas Bay
This black and white photograph shows a point of land and a sweep of beach enclosing a bay on the left. To the right are hills and houses. There is a bank of fog on the horizon with clear sky above. The point of land is Bolinas Point and the Bay i... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1997-123-01
Peter Allen's house
Photographic print pasted onto greeting card shows a wooden cut-out sculpture of a shark, painted white/gray with printed words NO PARKING painted in brown on it, nailed to a wooden corner beam of a wooden fence. Its mouth is open exposing shark tee... View Full Record
Print, copy
1998-117
Neighborhood flooding
B&W photocopy from original of a long one-story house with water up to its door. A picket fence along its side is partially submerged, There are wooden planks floating in the water as well as what looks like an empty rowboat. A larger 2-story hous... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1998-122-01
Waves over Bob Evans house
B&W aerial view of hugh wave crashing over Bob Evan's house on the beach at the end of Calle del Sierra. Whitewater rushes past the house and several other residences can be seen further down the water-filled street on the left of the house.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1998-143
Collapsed House on Beach
Rooftop slanted into the sand is all that is left of Syd Boyle's house. Mounds of sand and wooden debris obscure any damage to the shingled house left standing behind it.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1998-144
Damaged Beach House
Plywood boards do not completely cover up the windows and other openings of this rectangular white beach house. Much of the house, probably the porch, has been ripped away leaving a large opening in the wall.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1998-173-01
Aerial Photo Stinson 1997
Aerial photograph of Stinson Beach development and the hills above. Includes houses on Panoramic Highway to right and houses on Rafael Patio at lower left. Shows surf line in front. On the back of photo a sticker printed: Air Photo, Inc. Copyrights R... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1998-281-01
Storm of 1998
The Castle house is being inundated with water as the incoming tide rushes around it. The deck is being destroyed. The tops of several pilings are visible above the water.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-131-01
Tearing down the house
Six people - 3 young men plus Loretta Boyd Mayers (in head scarf and tennies) and Roxie and Jean DeMello (in white hat and flats) - stand in a row in front of a deconstruction site. The back of the miniature mounted photo reads "Tearing down the log... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-211-01
Upton 'Tent House'
This black and white photograph is of a white, single story house with wood siding. There is a path to the left of the house leading from the street up a step between two brick columns. The front porch of the house has a roof is enclosed by a waist... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-231-01
Calle del Pinos
After the storm of 1960, some boards are left leaning against a wooden sea wall. (Is this where a house once stood?) The 2-story house behind it seems in good shape.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-231D-01
Calle del Pinos series
Vintage cars/jeeps and wooden debris litter the side of the house at 24 Calle del Pinos after the onslaught of the storm on Feb. 2, 1960. A living space (or enclosed porch) that extends out from the main house is partially visible.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-231E-01
Calle del PInos series
Street view of tumbled down fence in front of 2-story house on Calle del Pinos after the storm of Feb. 2, 1960.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2000-189-01
Simmons Family Gathering
Family members gathered in the backyard of Simmons' cottage, affectionately referred to as "The Mousehole." Two young boys in the foreground - the youngest blond boy sitting in the sand with a bucket while the other is turned towards a girl in a hoo... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2001-258-01
Martha Simmons Property Mousehole
A color photo print of a house sitting close to the sandy ground. In the background you can see part of the Stinson Beach hills. The house has a gentle gable roof and its wooden shingle siding is painted light blue and the windows and the door at the... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2001-259-01
Martha Simmons Property Bunk House
A color photo print of a small house belonging to Martha Simmons which is located on the same property as the Mousehole, 2001-258-01. It has the same gentle gable roof as the Mousehole and its horizontal board siding and window trims are painted ligh... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2001-260-01
Kendrick Rand, Fire Chief
Fire Chief Kendrick Rand, in his SBVFD slicker and cap, stands on the bridge over Easkoot Creek where the water has risen to the floor of the house behind him (the old Elwoods?).... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2003-324-01
SBFD Practice Drill
An original black and white photograph of the practice drill of Stinson Beach Volunteer Fire Department donated by then volunteer and resident, Douglas Smith. Shows a small cottage on Calle del Sierra burning and 2 firemen are subduing the fire with... View Full Record
postcard
2004-102-01
Stinson Beach 1990's
A color postcard of Stinson Beach panorama c. 1990. The view is taken from above the Panoramic Highway with dry summer hills and Panoramic Highway in forground, showing houses on the Old Town hills. The Post Office and Shakespeare on the Beach comple... View Full Record
Postcard
2004-102-02
White Gate Ranch 1970
A color postcard of Stinson Beach from White Gate Ranch. Blue Sky, Blue Ocean along crescent of the beach and the Seadrift Lagoon with no houses on the Dipsea side. The Patios, Calles and houses in the Old Town and Highlands are visible. The Ranch bu... View Full Record
Postcard
2005-101-01
Stinson Beach / Bolinas Lagoon
Aerial photograph postcard of Stinson Beach and Bolinas Lagoon from the tip of Bolinas Mesa to San Francisco. The hills behind the Beach and Marin Headland are also shown. White thunder clouds float on top of all. It reads on the back; Stinson Beach... View Full Record
Postcard
2005-101-02
Pacific Coastlands
A color postcard of Stinson Beach taken from hills along the Panoramic Highway including the beach, Seadrift development, downtown Stinson Commercial developments and old town hills. On the backside of the postcard, it says; Pacific Coastlands, The v... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2007-110-01
Painted VW Bug
A color photograph of a Volkswagen Beetle painted by Bolinas artists in psychedelic style popular in late 1960's to 70's, the Hippy era and the note (see 2007-110-02) came with it. The colorful car was parked in front of donor, Mary Jones, house. He... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2010-103-06
Flooded House
This color photograph shows an oceanfront house at Calle Del Ribera being inundated by the sea during the storm of 1982-83. The front part of the house is torn apart and piled against the house. This house belonged to Dale Kelley who originally owned... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2010-108-01
10 Calle del Sierra
A small black and white photograph of Sassi family on their front porch. The house is located on 10 Calle Del Sierra. The house was originally built for the 1906 SF Earthquake Relief and brought to Stinson Beach at the end of the1930s by Erma Sassi P... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-01
Leland Kugelgen home in 82-3 storm
The Kugelgen house stands on its pilings with the ocean swirling around it. Two other houses can be seen beyond and to the right of it. The ocean is bringing ashore pieces of wood and other debris onto a mound of iceplant growing onshore.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-02
Leland Kugelgen home washing out to sea
The ocean sweeps the Kugelgen house off its pilings and begins to carry it out to sea. Waves attack the house behind it, reaching as high as its window. There is debris also being carried in by the waves and beach erosion is evident.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-03
Syd Boyle house demolished by 82-83 storm
Two men watch as waves rush down Calle del Resaca, carrying a telephone pole and household appliances. Syd Boyles house on the left has collapsed. Across the road a telephone pole rests on the deck of the house where a man is standing.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-05
Mattress washes down Calle del Ribera
On Calle del Ribera a mattress washes down the road with the ocean water. The road is strewn with large debris, several large logs and telephone poles, and piles of indecipherable stuff. The 2-story home across the way looks relatively unscathed bu... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-06
Gail Boyce flooded out
Gayle Boyce in black galoshes exits through the water in the doorway of her cottage on Calle del Resaca.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-07
Incoming ocean on Calle del Onda
A man attempts to outrun the incoming ocean as it begins its rush down Calle del Onda. It is pushing several large logs ahead of it. A pick up truck is parked on the left side of the road with water up to its bumper.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-08
Knee deep on Calle del Arroyo
Phil O'Brien stands knee deep in water on Calle del Arroyo, where the ocean meets the creek. He is wearing a cap, rainjacket and boots. Two houses on the left side of the road.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-19
Peter Allen with his whale
Peter Allen stands against the retaining wall of the beachfront property owned by Bob Evans. He stands head to nose with a great whale that he had sculpted into the seawall.... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-516-01
Seadrift, Calles, and Patios
Overhead view, as if from a small aeroplane, of the Stinson Beach area known as the Calles, Patios and Seadrift. The shoreline appears at the botton of the photograph with the dunes in front of the oceanfront houses, at least nine of which can be se... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-586-01
Flood 1956
Flooded neighborhood, possibly downtown, showing several houses surrounded by rushing water. Mostly just the rooftops are visibile. A wooden fence with open gate and foliage is in the foreground and on higher ground. The overall atmosphere is gray... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-323
McCarthy House
The black and white photo depicts a white cottage in the foreground with 3 cottages in the left background. The houses rest on sand and appear to be tilted due to a tilted camera. On the border of the photo at the top is typed 'McCarthy's Houses' a... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2000-169-01
Calle del Mar Residence
View of a small cottage sitting behind or beside another larger white frame house with one window and slanted roof visible. The cottage has 2 tall windows on either side of a stone chimney. The two houses are separated by a gardenlike area with shr... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2000-100-01
Storms of 1983 Beach Cottage Series
This color photographic print is of a single story shingled house on log pilings with a large pool of water in front of it. The end of the house on the left side of the picture appears to be a sort of porch with four window frames but no glass in th... View Full Record
Print, copy
2004-107-01
Evan's House in Storm
A color digital copy of 2 photos printed on one page and sent as a note. The photos show Bob Evan's house at the ocean front of Calle del Sierra being pounded by waves in winter of 1998, and the neighbors's deck caving in. The sky is blue and part of... View Full Record
Postcard
2005-111-14
Stinson Beach
A color photograph postcard copyrighted on 1985. The photo was taken from the hill above the Rocks, southern end of the beach showing the Rocks at lower left corner, sweep of the beach with the life guard tower of Golden Gate national Recreation Pa... View Full Record
Print, copy
2005-115-01
Sellmer Aircraft Hanger
A computer printout of a black and white photograph of Mr. Sellmer who built an aircraft in his house at Calle del Ribera in 1940's. He is standing by the door of his second floor door. An attached shed and a ramp going up to the opening of the shed... View Full Record
Print, copy
1998-132
Beach houses after Storm
View of the Upton Beach portion of Stinson Beach, looking south at the houses that bore the brunt of the 1983 storm. The first wooden structure sits at an angle on the sand, its windows empty. The red one-story house behind it has its windows board... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1998-141
Seawall Construction
The framing of the retaining wall in front of the Albertine White Reuter house on Calle del Embarcadero. Photo shows the steel rods over the broken cement blocks. They are standing at awkward angles in the foreground and straight at the far end. A... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1998-142
Collapsed Beach House
Shingled beach house with green roof collapsed on the sand so that it appears half buried. Two-story square wood and glass house is behind it; a red 2-story house sits beyond it. This is in the Calles.... View Full Record
print,photographic
1999-230-01
Calle del Pinos
Two-story wooden house on the beach at end of Calle del Pinos (#24) circa 1939. There are wooden stairs on the left going up to a door. A person is sitting on the top of the stairs. To the right of the house is another one-story white house (#20)... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-231B-01
Calle del Pinos
C.J. Greene, in a railroad cap, stands atop a ladder that is tethered to a telephone pole(?) beside the house at 24 Calle del Pinos. Holding a long-ish tool, he is working hard at something at the very top of the pole... View Full Record