Credits
Every photo and research source used in this tour: waypoint images from Wikimedia Commons under public-domain, CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA licenses, and the sources behind every fact in the narration. All photos are cleared for commercial use; attribution is given here per each license's terms. All 11 waypoints use a photo of the actual named location.
Image Credits
| Image | Author | License | Source | Depicts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paraglider at Mussel Rock Park | MatthewKeys | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons | Mussel Rock Park |
| Daly City little boxes, aerial | Dicklyon | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons | The "little boxes" hillside tract housing, Skyline Dr / Westlake |
| Westlake Shopping Center | BrokenSphere | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons | Westlake Shopping Center, Daly City |
| Daly City BART, 2022 | InvadingInvader | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons | Daly City BART station, the civic/transit hub of "Top of the Hill" |
| Cow Palace (front) | Dante Alighieri | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons | Cow Palace arena exterior |
| Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma | Michael Fraley | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons | Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma |
| Ridge Trail, San Bruno Mountain State Park | Tim Adams | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons | Grassy ridge trail, San Bruno Mountain State Park |
| Letters in Sign Hill Park | Tim Adams | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons | The "…THE INDUSTRIAL CITY" concrete letters, Sign Hill Park |
| South San Francisco City Hall | Pedro Xing | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons | South San Francisco City Hall (1920), near Grand Ave |
| Genentech HQ south campus | BrokenSphere | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons | Genentech HQ south campus |
| Viewing San Bruno Mountain from Oyster Point | mliu92 | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons | Oyster Point, South San Francisco |
Research Sources
Every fact narrated on this tour traces to a saved source URL. Sources are grouped by waypoint, in route order (west to east).
1. Mussel Rock Park
- FoundSF — "Geology"
- USGS Open-File Report 2005-1127, ch. 8
- CA Water Boards — Mussel Rock Fact Sheet (2015)
- Pacific Beach Coalition — "Former Mussel Rock Landfill Site"
- Bay Area Paragliding — "Mussel Rock Paragliding Site"
- CA Water Boards — Mussel Rock Tentative Order
2. Skyline Drive — Little Boxes
- OutsideLands.org — "Westlake"
- Wikipedia — "Henry Doelger"
- Malvina Reynolds archive (WKU)
- Wikipedia — "Little Boxes"
- The Bold Italic — "What a Classic Folk Song Gets Wrong About Daly City"
- Song link (external, not cached for offline use): Malvina Reynolds — Topic, "Little Boxes"
3. Westlake Shopping Center
- Wikipedia — "Westlake Shopping Center"
- Big Mall Rat — "Lost Malls of the Bay Area: Westlake"
- Wikipedia — "Original Joe's"
- Original Joe's Westlake (official site)
4. Top of the Hill
- Historical Marker Database — marker #52311
- City of Daly City — "History of Daly City"
- City of Daly City — "History"
- Wikipedia — "Pinoy Capital"
- FoundSF — "Daly City: The New Filipinotown"
5. Cow Palace
- Wikipedia — "Cow Palace"
- Cow Palace (official site) — "History"
- The Beatles Bible — "Live: Cow Palace, San Francisco (19 August 1964)"
- Wikipedia — "1956 Republican National Convention"
- Wikipedia — "1964 Republican National Convention"
- Friends of the Cow Palace — "Agricultural & Rodeo History"
6. Colma
- KQED — "Why Are So Many Dead People in Colma, and So Few in San Francisco?"
- Newspapers.com Blog — "San Francisco Evicts the Dead"
- Wikipedia — "Colma, California"
- Roadside America — Colma cemetery listing
- Colma Historical Association — "Museum"
7. San Bruno Mountain
- Wikipedia — "San Bruno Mountain"
- San Bruno Mountain Watch — "About the Mountain"
- FoundSF — "San Bruno Mountain"
8. Sign Hill
9. Grand Avenue
- South San Francisco Historical Society — "City History"
- City of South San Francisco — City Hall history (PDF)