A green Volkswagen Beetle parked in front of the "Painted Ladies" row of Victorian Houses on Steiner Street (at Alamo Square) in San Francisco.
A green Volkswagen Beetle parked in front of the "Painted Ladies" row of Victorian Houses on Steiner Street (at Alamo Square) in San Francisco. *** About 48,000 houses in the Victorian and Edwardian styles were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 (with the change from Victorian to Edwardian occurring on the death of Queen Victoria in 1901), and many were painted in bright colors. As one newspaper critic noted in 1885, "...red, yellow, chocolate, orange, everything that is loud is in the upper stories are not of red or they are painted up into uncouth panels of yellow and " While many of the mansions of Nob Hill were destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, thousands of the mass-produced, more modest houses survived in the western and southern neighborhoods of the city. One of the best-known groups of "Painted Ladies" is the row of Victorian houses at 710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Square park, in San Francisco. It is sometimes known as "Postcard Row." The houses were built between 1892 and 1896 by developer Matthew Kavanaugh, who lived next door in the 1892 mansion at 722 Steiner Street. This block appears very frequently in media and mass-market photographs of the city and its tourist attractions and has appeared in an estimated 70 movies, TV programs, and ads, including in the opening credits of the television series Full House. *** The Volkswagen Beetle – officially the Volkswagen Type 1, informally in Germany the Käfer (German, "beetle") and in parts of the English-speaking world the Bug – is a two-door, four-passenger, rear-engine economy car that was manufactured and marketed by German automaker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003. *** Description sourced from Wikipedia (2017).
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Location: Painted Ladies, Steiner Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Photo credit: © Felix Choo / Alamy / Afripics
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