Category: Photos

Love this bendycam photo by bhautik joshi. Where is it? Let’s play the geo-locator game. Go!

bhautik submitted this photo to our Muni Photos Flickr Pool. Now it’s your turn.

Photo by Telstar Logistics

Update (August 4, 7:36 a.m.): Chris Roberts has a nice gallery and story up about the Transbay Terminal over at SF Appeal.

Update (August 3, 12:20 p.m.): California Beat has a great article detailing the history of the terminal, along with more awesome photos.

Original post: Looking through many of the photos of last week’s final official peek inside the Transbay Terminal left me feeling nostalgic. I felt like I was really looking into San Francisco’s past, a sad, failed relic of what was once so idealistic and, I’m sure, awesome. Transbay was a place where transit systems converged, where worlds collided, mingled, ignored one another because they had places to be. It was like a sorry attempt at Grand Central in New York. Oh, the potential.

The building will soon be demolished to make room for a high rise and high-speed rail station. In the mean time, you’ve got to check out the photos from the last official tour of the Transbay Terminal.

Check out those antique Corn Flakes, all those goddam payphones, the bar set with Martini glasses and a shaker or two, a drunk tank (no comment), all from the set taken by the talented  Telstar Logistics, who also took the photograph above.

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