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I dug up some photos of Muni’s Forest Hill Station from the 1950s and 1980s for the Muniverse blog for a then and now comparison with a photo I took today.

Between them you can also see all four generations of Muni streetcars over the last century, from “Iron Monsters” and PCC streetcars, to the modern Boeing, then Breda light-rail vehicles.

Forest Hill is much snazzier now than when it was built in the 1930s. When the Market Street subway was built, the sidewalk-height platforms were raised about three feet to allow level boarding.

It was originally much simpler as the 1950s SFMTA archive photo shows, then in a 1980 photo by Doug Grotjahn taken right before the rebuild, and again as it looks today with its more elaborate design.