Postcard: Two Views of Ocean Beach, San Francisco

"The beach stretching south from the Cliff House is one of San Francisco's most popular resorts. Besides the famed Cliff House are to be found the Sutro Baths, the largest of its kind in the world, and the conical-shaped Seal Rocks, the home of herds of Sea Lions."

It's Memorial Day this weekend which means summer is supposedly ready to start, which of course means that Northern California won't see any warmth until October...

But, I thought these two old-timey postcards of San Francisco's Ocean Beach would set the right mood just in case we do get some warm days this weekend. Neither of these are dated (both are blank and both are from the Pacific Novelty Co. of San Francisco), but I would venture to guess they are from the teens or 1920s. The Cliff House that's in the background is the one built after the opulent Victorian one was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. But, the clothes are still very old-fashioned.

On the second one, I love the pair of ladies in the foreground with the parasol, and the little girl in the bright pink at center. I also love the guy in the middle wading in a full suit and bowler hat.

It's nice to see that Ocean Beach was just as crowded on a sunny day then as it is today!