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Missing San Francisco? Enjoy These Photos of Better Times.

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Outside Lands 2019, back when we didn’t have to be six feet apart. Photo: Andrea Campos

We miss San Francisco. We miss its restaurants, bars, museums, festivals — and everything else we once had access to and took for granted. Because we all must do our part and stay at home, TBI editors have found ourselves looking through old photos of when things were so good, and we didn’t even really know it.

If you want to escape your own living room for a moment, too, and take a look at our city through your screen, enjoy these TBI photo essays from months and years past.


Outside Lands represents the best of the city: the music, the food, the people, the weed. Can you tell we’re feeling nostalgic? Hopefully the festival can go on this year.

Photos: Outside Lands 2019
Portraits from San Francisco’s biggest music festival

The photos from the Folsom Street Fair never disappoint… (NSF…H?)

PHOTOS: Folsom Street Fair 2019 (NSFW)
A very kinky Sunday in SOMA

We miss the most SF of things, like cable cars, now not running. We even miss the tourists.

Twelve Hours in a Cable Car
Experiencing the city through one of its most popular attractions

Another look into the carefree San Francisco life at Hardly Strictly last year.

PHOTOS: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019
Americana is having a moment

Last year, TBI contributor Ariana Bindman profiled the characters of the Tenderloin.

Faces of the Tenderloin
Portraits of the neighborhood’s bold, eclectic inhabitants

Oakland’s Black Joy Parade feels like 1 million years ago, but it was only late February that the community came together to celebrate.

Oakland’s Black Community: We’re Here, Proud, and United
This year’s Black Joy Parade felt more important than ever

It’s hard to fathom a crowd like the one at the Women’s March.

A Walk Toward Equality: The Women’s March, San Francisco
Thousands of women and allies flooded the streets of San Francisco on Saturday, January 19, to participate in this…

Photographer Andrea Campos took stunning images at last year’s Dia de los Muertos.

PHOTOS: Dia de los Muertos in San Francisco
A dedication to the deceased

Corgis! You’re welcome and enjoy.

PHOTOS: Corgi Con Takes Over Ocean Beach
The short-legged dogs came out for an obstacle course, races and a costume contest

We are thinking of bars like Aunt Charlie’s going through this tough time.

A Look Behind the Curtain at San Francisco’s Drag Institution
Documenting Aunt Charlie’s, the last gay bar in the Tenderloin

An ode to The Richmond in 10 photos.

TBI will continue to pay homage to and cover our neighborhoods now and as we move forward from this crisis.

The Richmond in 10 Photos
Golden memories of the Avenues

Stay safe, San Francisco.

Last Update: December 14, 2021

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