"How a city moves is also how it breathes - its life force. In a new City Hall exhibition highlighting 122 years of photographs documenting Muni travel, you see the flow: Rush hour traffic clogs Market Street in 1940, Bus 76 climbs to the top of the Marin Headlands to catch up with a cyclist in 1976, and Fannie Mae Barnes, the first female cable car grip, clutches a handle in 1989."
""Moving San Francisco: Views from the SFMTA Photo Archive 1903 - Now," which opened last week and is on display till June 18, draws together 100 images, many of them never before put on public display. The exhibition, curated by San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency photo archivist Jeremy Menzies, with San Francisco Arts Commission galleries acting director Jackie Im, becomes a history of San Francisco itself."
"San Francisco's beloved public transit system is the subject of running routes and viral holiday sweater drops, online games and storytelling series. "It feels like a part of your family, your apparatus, your living organism," said Ralph Remington, director of cultural affairs for the arts commission. "For over 100 years, Muni has been the steady presence that has carried us through the areas that define San Francisco.""
A City Hall exhibition titled Moving San Francisco presents 100 photographs from the SFMTA archive spanning 1903 to the present and runs through June 18. The show was curated by SFMTA photo archivist Jeremy Menzies with Jackie Im of the San Francisco Arts Commission and includes many images never before publicly displayed. Photographs range from the Great Earthquake era to the start of the Muni Metro and everyday scenes from the 1970s and 1980s. The archive highlights notable supporters such as Tony Bennett, Phyllis Diller and Harvey Milk, along with transit operators and riders. Accompanying quotations and cultural references underscore Muni's enduring role in the city's life and identity.
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