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Original Sutro Tower circa 1960

View southeast from the back of a house on 9th Avenue (likely 1932 9th) south of Ortega. Houses on 8th Avenue & Linares in foreground, and Twin Peaks in background. Original Mt. Sutro radio tower in center background, with "La Avanzada" (or Sutro Mansion or Sutro's Castle), a mansion built by Adolph G. Sutro (grandson of Mayor Adolph Sutro) in 1930, (designed by architect Harold G. Stoner).
Photographer Unknown (Courtesy of a Private Collector)

Original Sutro Tower Original Sutro Tower

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