Fred Lyon, Renowned San Francisco Photographer, Dies at Age 97
Mystery Solved: Crowdsourcing a Vanished View of San Francisco
Photographer Fred Lyon Is 93 and Still in Love With San Francisco
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His wife, Penelope Whelan Rozis, told KQED the cause was lung cancer. [aside postID=\"news_11629475,news_11632348\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Peter Fetterman, a Santa Monica gallery owner who has represented the photographer and his iconic images of San Francisco for decades, described Lyon's work as \"a love poem to the city. He has such heart and warmth, and it shows through his photographs — his images of children, of just normal people,\" Fetterman said in an interview Saturday. \"He was one of the great humanist photographers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rozis and Fetterman said a memorial is planned for sometime in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon emerged as one of the most respected chroniclers of his long era in San Francisco from a career focused mostly on magazine and fashion photography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His career touched on every significant aspect of 20th-century photography,\" said author Philip Meza, whose recent book \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/702187/inventing-the-california-look-by-philip-meza-photography-by-fred-lyon/9780847871520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inventing the California Look\u003c/a>\" featured Lyon's photography of interior decor. Lyon was a prolific contributor to national magazines including Life, Fortune, Holiday and Sports Illustrated and also worked as an ad agency photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fred Lyon, photographer\"]'Photography wasn't really an honorable profession. It wasn't a profession at all. When our family physician found out what I was doing, he said, 'Oh Frederick, that's no work for a man.' But it's the ideal pursuit for an inherently nosy person. You get to peek into everyone else's life.'[/pullquote]\"And then at the age of 80, he starts a career as a fine art photographer,\" Meza said, referring to a career that was active right up until Lyon's passing. \"He died working on two book projects. And just this last April, he had two books out — mine, and he was the largest contributor to another book, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05346/facts.san_francisco_portrait_of_a_city.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco: Portrait of a City\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fetterman said he had not encountered Lyon's work before seeing an image called \"Foggy Night, Land's End.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought I knew a lot about photographers and the history of photography,\" Fetterman said. When he came across \"Foggy Night,\" he said, \"I was totally blown away by it. I thought, 'Why haven't I heard of this man? Who is this man? This man is a giant — anyone who could make that kind of composition, I have to know more about him.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-800x799.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white night-time image with man, woman and car silhouetted in fog. \" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-800x799.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-1020x1019.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon.jpg 1442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Foggy NIght, Land's End,' a 1953 image shot by San Francisco photographer Fred Lyon. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon/Peter Fetterman Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]yon told KQED's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/patyollin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Yollin\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11629475/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2017 profile\u003c/a> that he became fascinated with photography early in his teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cameras were shiny objects,\" he said. \"I knew a guy who had one and he always seemed to have a lot of cute girls around him. I thought that if I had a camera, maybe I'd get girls, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon skipped two grades, graduated from Burlingame High School, apprenticed at a San Francisco photography studio at age 14 and then, a year later, attended the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where Ansel Adams was a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2020 interview with \"California Look\" collaborator Philip Meza, Lyon recalled how he joined Adams and a select handful of other students on a summer trip to Adams’ home in Yosemite. He said he took from Adams certain artistic tenets, such as Adams’ famous admonition, “There's nothing worse than a very sharp image of a very fuzzy concept.\" But even then, Lyon said, he knew he needed to become his own photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My feeling was that I could never learn all Ansel knew,\" Lyon said. \"I could never be more than a miniature Ansel Adams if I tried to be like him. I was never going to become a landscape photographer. I always seem to need to include some of the works of man in my work. Ansel was terrific and inspirational, but I didn’t want to emulate what he was doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon was a Navy photographer during World War II, an assignment that took him to the White House, where he took a Christmas portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his extended family in 1944. He photographed President Harry S. Truman on his first day in the Oval Office following Roosevelt's death in April 1945.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Lyon shot fashion assignments in New York City before returning to the Bay Area in 1946, where his family's thriving real estate business awaited him. But he had other ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Photography wasn't really an honorable profession,\" Lyon told KQED in 2017. \"It wasn't a profession at all. When our family physician found out what I was doing, he said, 'Oh Frederick, that's no work for a man.' But it's the ideal pursuit for an inherently nosy person. You get to peek into everyone else's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ll through his career, Lyon was very busy getting those glimpses into the lives of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We looked at his work logs — he logged in every shoot he did from maybe 1940 on,\" Rozis, who married Lyon 20 years ago, said Saturday. \"There were all kinds of interesting people, from sports to fashion to architecture to films. It's just amazing. He said, 'When I look at these job logs, it makes me tired.' Every day there were two or more shoots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza says that Lyon set out to become a working photographer, a mission at which he was fabulously successful, but did not consider himself an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nevertheless, he did become one,\" Meza said, the proof being the enduring attraction of the images he captured. \"If it is a generation or more removed from the viewer, like some of Fred’s fine art photography, it retains these powers and is not just a curiosity because it is antique. I think his artistic sense was derived from his abundant empathy, curiosity and intelligence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923902\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-800x804.png\" alt=\"Two children sliding on cardboard down a steep street in San Francisco in 1952.\" width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-800x804.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-1020x1026.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-160x161.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-1528x1536.png 1528w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM.png 1846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children street-sledding down steep hill, North Beach, San Francisco, 1952. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fetterman says that, beyond the quality of his work, Lyon stood out as someone who embraced life and other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a joyous character,\" Fetterman said. \"He was like Cary Grant. He was from another era of charm and manners and gracefulness — all of it genuine.\"[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fred Lyon, photographer\"]'I see pictures I would like to take. I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can't believe it.'[/pullquote]Lyon's personality — his dedication to craft, sense of wonder and joie de vivre — shine through in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11629475/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED's 2017 profile\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story noted that Lyon, \"reduced to a shuffle\" and accompanied by his wife \"to keep me from being hit by motorists,\" was still venturing out to shoot the city where he was born back in 1924. \"I want to be wherever the composition is right, and it's usually in the middle of traffic. I love the 500 Club (at Guerrero and 17th streets, in the Mission) because it has the cocktail glass and the neon sign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Lyon made clear in the story that he bore a deep affection for both the old San Francisco and the city it has become:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Lyon has had neither the time nor inclination to embrace nostalgia, but there are things he misses about the old San Francisco: He used to swim at Sutro Baths. Kids played in the streets. People didn't hurry and weren't on 'their damn iPhones all the time.' There wasn't much traffic or all those 'killer buses.' San Franciscans didn't dress like they were camping, and didn't wear baseball caps backward in good restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Now that I'm officially an antique, I can say that I'm old-fashioned,' Lyon said. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" ... But Lyon loves San Francisco in its current incarnation, especially certain things: The profusion of Thai restaurants. Bicycles everywhere. Fantastic fruits and vegetables. All the watercraft on the bay. A revitalized North Beach. The Lands End Lookout. And a lot more sidewalk trees, which 'cover up some execrable architecture.'\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he 2017 piece had a sequel. It featured photographs from a just-published book of Lyon's work, \"\u003ca href=\"https://papress.com/products/san-francisco-noir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Noir\u003c/a>.\" The piece included several images from the book, including an undated black-and-white image of a series of gabled houses with a hill full of more houses rising into the haze beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where "Houses on the Hills" is located.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1180x917.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-960x746.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-240x187.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-375x292.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-520x404.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon took so many pictures that he didn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out where 'Houses on the Hills' was shot. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The caption said: \"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where 'Houses on the Hills' is located.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mystery of that photo's location spawned a KQED social media challenge — to help find the spot where \"Houses on the Hill\" was shot. Two of our readers figured it out, and Yollin and Lyon visited the site with them. The result was another story, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11632348/crowdsourcing-a-vanished-view-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mystery Solved: Crowdsourcing a Vanished View of San Francisco\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't tell you how amazing I think it is that you identified this,\" Lyon told the two readers, Robert Aranda Jr. and Eric Chesmar, who correctly identified the picture's Noe Valley location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Rozis, Lyon is survived by two sons, Michael and Gordon, from his first marriage, to the late Anne Murray Lyon, who died in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he approached his mid-90s, Lyon told Yollin, he felt there was still more work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see pictures I would like to take,\" he said. \"I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can't believe it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Remembering a craftsman and artist who built built an incomparable record of his native city in a career that spanned more than seven decades.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1661805146,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1729},"headData":{"title":"Fred Lyon, Renowned San Francisco Photographer, Dies at Age 97 | KQED","description":"Remembering a craftsman and artist who built built an incomparable record of his native city in a career that spanned more than seven decades.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Fred Lyon, Renowned San Francisco Photographer, Dies at Age 97","datePublished":"2022-08-28T22:17:44.000Z","dateModified":"2022-08-29T20:32:26.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11923869 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11923869","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/28/fred-lyon-renowned-san-francisco-photographer-dies-at-age-97/","disqusTitle":"Fred Lyon, Renowned San Francisco Photographer, Dies at Age 97","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11923869/fred-lyon-renowned-san-francisco-photographer-dies-at-age-97","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>red Lyon, one of the greatest of San Francisco photographers — and by some estimates one of the greatest anywhere, any time — has died at the age of 97.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon, who built \u003ca href=\"https://www.fredlyon.com/gallery/Classic-Photography-for-Collectors/G0000mIS5.IPEWTU/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an incomparable record\u003c/a> of his native city in a career that spanned more than seven decades, died last Monday, August 22. His wife, Penelope Whelan Rozis, told KQED the cause was lung cancer. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11629475,news_11632348","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Peter Fetterman, a Santa Monica gallery owner who has represented the photographer and his iconic images of San Francisco for decades, described Lyon's work as \"a love poem to the city. He has such heart and warmth, and it shows through his photographs — his images of children, of just normal people,\" Fetterman said in an interview Saturday. \"He was one of the great humanist photographers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rozis and Fetterman said a memorial is planned for sometime in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon emerged as one of the most respected chroniclers of his long era in San Francisco from a career focused mostly on magazine and fashion photography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His career touched on every significant aspect of 20th-century photography,\" said author Philip Meza, whose recent book \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/702187/inventing-the-california-look-by-philip-meza-photography-by-fred-lyon/9780847871520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inventing the California Look\u003c/a>\" featured Lyon's photography of interior decor. Lyon was a prolific contributor to national magazines including Life, Fortune, Holiday and Sports Illustrated and also worked as an ad agency photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Photography wasn't really an honorable profession. It wasn't a profession at all. When our family physician found out what I was doing, he said, 'Oh Frederick, that's no work for a man.' But it's the ideal pursuit for an inherently nosy person. You get to peek into everyone else's life.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Fred Lyon, photographer","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"And then at the age of 80, he starts a career as a fine art photographer,\" Meza said, referring to a career that was active right up until Lyon's passing. \"He died working on two book projects. And just this last April, he had two books out — mine, and he was the largest contributor to another book, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05346/facts.san_francisco_portrait_of_a_city.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco: Portrait of a City\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fetterman said he had not encountered Lyon's work before seeing an image called \"Foggy Night, Land's End.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought I knew a lot about photographers and the history of photography,\" Fetterman said. When he came across \"Foggy Night,\" he said, \"I was totally blown away by it. I thought, 'Why haven't I heard of this man? Who is this man? This man is a giant — anyone who could make that kind of composition, I have to know more about him.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-800x799.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white night-time image with man, woman and car silhouetted in fog. \" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-800x799.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-1020x1019.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon.jpg 1442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Foggy NIght, Land's End,' a 1953 image shot by San Francisco photographer Fred Lyon. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon/Peter Fetterman Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">L\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>yon told KQED's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/patyollin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Yollin\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11629475/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2017 profile\u003c/a> that he became fascinated with photography early in his teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cameras were shiny objects,\" he said. \"I knew a guy who had one and he always seemed to have a lot of cute girls around him. I thought that if I had a camera, maybe I'd get girls, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon skipped two grades, graduated from Burlingame High School, apprenticed at a San Francisco photography studio at age 14 and then, a year later, attended the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where Ansel Adams was a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2020 interview with \"California Look\" collaborator Philip Meza, Lyon recalled how he joined Adams and a select handful of other students on a summer trip to Adams’ home in Yosemite. He said he took from Adams certain artistic tenets, such as Adams’ famous admonition, “There's nothing worse than a very sharp image of a very fuzzy concept.\" But even then, Lyon said, he knew he needed to become his own photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My feeling was that I could never learn all Ansel knew,\" Lyon said. \"I could never be more than a miniature Ansel Adams if I tried to be like him. I was never going to become a landscape photographer. I always seem to need to include some of the works of man in my work. Ansel was terrific and inspirational, but I didn’t want to emulate what he was doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon was a Navy photographer during World War II, an assignment that took him to the White House, where he took a Christmas portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his extended family in 1944. He photographed President Harry S. Truman on his first day in the Oval Office following Roosevelt's death in April 1945.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Lyon shot fashion assignments in New York City before returning to the Bay Area in 1946, where his family's thriving real estate business awaited him. But he had other ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Photography wasn't really an honorable profession,\" Lyon told KQED in 2017. \"It wasn't a profession at all. When our family physician found out what I was doing, he said, 'Oh Frederick, that's no work for a man.' But it's the ideal pursuit for an inherently nosy person. You get to peek into everyone else's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ll through his career, Lyon was very busy getting those glimpses into the lives of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We looked at his work logs — he logged in every shoot he did from maybe 1940 on,\" Rozis, who married Lyon 20 years ago, said Saturday. \"There were all kinds of interesting people, from sports to fashion to architecture to films. It's just amazing. He said, 'When I look at these job logs, it makes me tired.' Every day there were two or more shoots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza says that Lyon set out to become a working photographer, a mission at which he was fabulously successful, but did not consider himself an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nevertheless, he did become one,\" Meza said, the proof being the enduring attraction of the images he captured. \"If it is a generation or more removed from the viewer, like some of Fred’s fine art photography, it retains these powers and is not just a curiosity because it is antique. I think his artistic sense was derived from his abundant empathy, curiosity and intelligence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923902\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-800x804.png\" alt=\"Two children sliding on cardboard down a steep street in San Francisco in 1952.\" width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-800x804.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-1020x1026.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-160x161.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-1528x1536.png 1528w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM.png 1846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children street-sledding down steep hill, North Beach, San Francisco, 1952. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fetterman says that, beyond the quality of his work, Lyon stood out as someone who embraced life and other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a joyous character,\" Fetterman said. \"He was like Cary Grant. He was from another era of charm and manners and gracefulness — all of it genuine.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I see pictures I would like to take. I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can't believe it.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Fred Lyon, photographer","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lyon's personality — his dedication to craft, sense of wonder and joie de vivre — shine through in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11629475/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED's 2017 profile\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story noted that Lyon, \"reduced to a shuffle\" and accompanied by his wife \"to keep me from being hit by motorists,\" was still venturing out to shoot the city where he was born back in 1924. \"I want to be wherever the composition is right, and it's usually in the middle of traffic. I love the 500 Club (at Guerrero and 17th streets, in the Mission) because it has the cocktail glass and the neon sign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Lyon made clear in the story that he bore a deep affection for both the old San Francisco and the city it has become:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Lyon has had neither the time nor inclination to embrace nostalgia, but there are things he misses about the old San Francisco: He used to swim at Sutro Baths. Kids played in the streets. People didn't hurry and weren't on 'their damn iPhones all the time.' There wasn't much traffic or all those 'killer buses.' San Franciscans didn't dress like they were camping, and didn't wear baseball caps backward in good restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Now that I'm officially an antique, I can say that I'm old-fashioned,' Lyon said. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" ... But Lyon loves San Francisco in its current incarnation, especially certain things: The profusion of Thai restaurants. Bicycles everywhere. Fantastic fruits and vegetables. All the watercraft on the bay. A revitalized North Beach. The Lands End Lookout. And a lot more sidewalk trees, which 'cover up some execrable architecture.'\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he 2017 piece had a sequel. It featured photographs from a just-published book of Lyon's work, \"\u003ca href=\"https://papress.com/products/san-francisco-noir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Noir\u003c/a>.\" The piece included several images from the book, including an undated black-and-white image of a series of gabled houses with a hill full of more houses rising into the haze beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where "Houses on the Hills" is located.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1180x917.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-960x746.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-240x187.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-375x292.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-520x404.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon took so many pictures that he didn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out where 'Houses on the Hills' was shot. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The caption said: \"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where 'Houses on the Hills' is located.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mystery of that photo's location spawned a KQED social media challenge — to help find the spot where \"Houses on the Hill\" was shot. Two of our readers figured it out, and Yollin and Lyon visited the site with them. The result was another story, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11632348/crowdsourcing-a-vanished-view-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mystery Solved: Crowdsourcing a Vanished View of San Francisco\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't tell you how amazing I think it is that you identified this,\" Lyon told the two readers, Robert Aranda Jr. and Eric Chesmar, who correctly identified the picture's Noe Valley location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Rozis, Lyon is survived by two sons, Michael and Gordon, from his first marriage, to the late Anne Murray Lyon, who died in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he approached his mid-90s, Lyon told Yollin, he felt there was still more work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see pictures I would like to take,\" he said. \"I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can't believe it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11923869/fred-lyon-renowned-san-francisco-photographer-dies-at-age-97","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_21946","news_31520","news_2672"],"featImg":"news_11629483","label":"news"},"news_11632348":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11632348","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11632348","score":null,"sort":[1511204122000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"crowdsourcing-a-vanished-view-of-san-francisco","title":"Mystery Solved: Crowdsourcing a Vanished View of San Francisco","publishDate":1511204122,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Sometimes, crowdsourcing works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it does, it can lead to improbable gatherings, like the one Friday morning in Noe Valley. There were five of us: a legendary lensman, an interior designer, a retired PG&E electrician, an engineer for United Airlines and me, a fan of photography and geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/09/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco/\">my story\u003c/a> earlier this month about 93-year-old photographer \u003ca href=\"http://www.fredlyon.com/\">Fred Lyon,\u003c/a> KQED asked readers to figure out where the picture \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews/photos/a.117611171646622.21467.107786349295771/1668921303182260/?type=3&theater\">\"Houses on the Hills\"\u003c/a> was shot. The image can be seen in his current \"San Francisco Noir\" exhibition at the \u003ca href=\"http://gallery.leicastoresf.com/exhibitions/current-exhibitions\">Leica Gallery\u003c/a> and in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.leicastoresf.com/248638\">new book\u003c/a> of the same name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629489 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where "Houses on the Hills" is located.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1166\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1180x917.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-960x746.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-240x187.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-375x292.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-520x404.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife spent hours driving around San Francisco searching for the location of 'Houses on the Hills.' \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lyon, a fourth-generation San Franciscan, has taken tens of thousands of photos in a career that began more than 70 years ago. When I asked where the houses were located, he said: \"That's a question we've been wrestling with ever since we discovered this negative about a year ago. Penny and I have spent hours driving around, but to no avail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon and his wife, interior designer \u003ca href=\"http://www.pennyrozis.com/\">Penelope Rozis,\u003c/a> believed he was looking west, because of the position of the sun, and suspected the houses were in the Excelsior or Crocker-Amazon. But it turns out they're actually in Noe Valley, on Worth Street. Lyon's photo, shot facing east from upper Grand View Avenue, captured the back of those dwellings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two San Francisco residents solved the puzzle separately -- with very different approaches -- after they spotted KQED's call for help on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aranda Jr. moved to the neighborhood 58 years ago with his parents, after they emigrated from Guatemala. He recognized the scene immediately because his house on 22nd Street is just steps from Worth Street. Eric Chesmar, on the other hand, relied on Google Maps and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214758672623284&set=p.10214758672623284&type=3&theater\">Google Earth.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You did it with the new technology,\" Aranda told Chesmar when we all met up on Worth Street. \"Me, I live here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chesmar said, \"I spent a lot of time zooming in, trying to match the rooflines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon was thrilled to meet them -- and vice versa. \"This has been the greatest mystery,\" he told Chesmar and Aranda. \"I was convinced they had moved a couple of large hills -- the government does that, you know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, more seriously, \"I was afraid the houses were gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those houses haven't gone anywhere. And neither have most of the people who live on Worth Street, which is only one block long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who live here have been here a long time,\" said retired carpenter David Meites, 77, who I chatted with earlier in the morning and has lived on Worth more than 40 years. \"It's like a very small bar. Even if you're not all that friendly, you're pushed into saying hello.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Worth Street hasn't changed much since Lyon took his photo in the late '40s or early '50s, the same can't be said for Grand View Avenue, where he was standing when he shot \"Houses on the Hills.\" He and Rozis could have driven around San Francisco for years without ever solving the puzzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I assumed that the camera was pointed west, into the afternoon sun. Actually, it was east, and the morning sun. It's an incredible relief to know where that is.'\u003ccite>Photographer Fred Lyon\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That's because a large brown-shingle house was built on lower Grand View in 1979, and it blocks most of the view that the photographer had enjoyed. After we'd made our way from Worth Street to upper Grand View, we saw how much things had changed. Lyon shuddered and shook his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At that time there were many empty lots,\" said Lyon, whose memory of being there quickly returned. \"I came here because it was a viewpoint.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11632353 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-160x73.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-800x367.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-1020x468.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-1180x541.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-960x440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-240x110.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-375x172.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-520x238.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here's a screen shot of an aerial photograph of Worth Street in 1938, on the website of the San Francisco Planning Department. \u003ccite>(David Rumsey Map Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aranda was on a beach in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, when his wife spotted KQED's request for help. \"She said, 'I bet you can figure this out.' But I was leery I was correct until I saw the building behind the houses,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That building is \u003ca href=\"http://alvaradoschool.net/\">Alvarado Elementary School\u003c/a> on Douglass Street. It's where Aranda, 63, a retired electrician at PG&E substations, went to grade school, not long after he arrived from Central America. The ornate cornices that can be glimpsed in the photograph are long gone, Aranda said, because of concerns about earthquake safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632361\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11632361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Aranda Jr. takes a selfie on Worth Street in San Francisco with photographer Fred Lyon, whose work he has admired for many years. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chesmar, a composite engineer with United Airlines at SFO who lives in Bernal Heights, used a different strategy, scouring satellite photos on Google Maps to pinpoint the location: He looked for a hill with a contour that fit Lyon's picture and for a second taller hill nearby, from where the photo was taken. Since the sun was to the right of the hill -- and too high to be west -- Lyon must have been facing east or south. Then he searched for buildings with those shapes and windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process consumed about two hours. But after he noticed the steep stairway on 22nd Street, between Diamond and Collingwood, it took only another 15 minutes to zero in on where Lyon was standing almost seven decades ago. Then he verified his conclusion on Google Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had plenty of time,\" said Chesmar, 56, who is recovering from a mountain bike accident on Mount Tamalpais that broke his femur six weeks ago. He was recently allowed to drive a car again, but is still on crutches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632362\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11632362 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Chesmar, left, brought his iPad and Fred Lyon brought his camera to the very spot on upper Grand View Avenue in San Francisco where Lyon shot 'Houses on the Hills.' \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Days earlier, when I told Lyon where the houses were situated, he said, \"That makes perfect sense -- and proves once again that one's brain and memory are totally unreliable. I assumed that the camera was pointed west, into the afternoon sun. Actually, it was east, and the morning sun. It's an incredible relief to know where that is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leica Gallery director Alex Ramos, who was immensely curious about the location of the houses, also thought it was a sunset photograph with afternoon fog. \"My guess was way off,\" he said. \"Fred must have gotten up early to make this one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, Lyon and Rozis marveled as Chesmar used his iPad to explain his methodology. \"What great detective work,\" Rozis remarked. \"I can't tell you how amazing I think it is that you identified this,\" Lyon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED readers took a stab at the elusive location, they were as mystified as Lyon had been. Their guesses included: Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights, the Excelsior, Crocker-Amazon, Daly City, Silver Terrace, the Portola, South San Francisco, the Mission District, Hunters Point and the Inner Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon stood on upper Grand View Avenue -- the spot where he'd been with his 4x5 Linhof and tripod around the middle of the last century -- and took a few pictures of what is now a vastly altered view. \"A lot has changed, but a lot is still the same,\" he said of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Lyon is usually in discovery mode, looking at old photos and deciding what to keep and what to toss. He continually spots new things -- and so do some of the people who look at his pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon described his image of three men pushing a cable car at the Powell Street turnaround. A woman told him that her father was one of them -- his pipe was clenched in his mouth and he always wore his hat that way. \"And I thought, isn't this a sweet moment,\" Lyon recalled. \"And then she said, 'One day he took the family Cadillac and his secretary, and nobody's seen him since.' Don't tell me these things. I'm a romantic and I don't want to know that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike many of the photographs Lyon made for Life, Look and other publications, \"Houses on the Hills\" is horizontal. \"I realized early on that magazine pages were vertical and you got paid by the page,\" he said. \"I didn't want to settle for horizontals, so I forced verticals. And I thought that was fine because I was starving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're not now,\" Aranda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" Lyon agreed. \"If anything, I'm overfed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11632363 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon gave Robert Aranda Jr. a digital print of his "Houses on the Hills" photograph. It is temporarily keeping company with tequila bottles on Aranda's dining room table in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon gave Robert Aranda Jr. a digital print of his 'Houses on the Hills' photograph. It is temporarily keeping company with tequila bottles on Aranda's dining room table in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it was time to leave, a grateful Lyon presented Aranda and Chesmar with digital prints of \"Houses on the Hills.\" Aranda started to choke up. When I mentioned that the silver gelatin version on display at the Leica Gallery is priced at $5,000, they looked even more stunned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aranda, a big fan of Lyon's work, said he'll get the photograph matted and framed as soon as he can. We walked over to his house and he showed me exactly where it will go, in a prominent spot in the front hallway. Then he propped it up on the dining room table. surrounded by tequila bottles, and admired the view Lyon had enjoyed -- one that has seemingly vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a way to see it. Vincent Galea, 80, who has lived on Worth for 40-plus years, invited me to climb to the top of his terraced backyard garden, behind his house on the west side of the street. That is where Lyon's houses on the hills can still be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galea's home, in fact, is one of those houses. But he hadn't realized it until that moment, when we looked at a photocopy of the image that I'd brought along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd seen the picture before and I didn't put it together,\" Galea said. \"But I knew it was in the neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11632354 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The backs of the Worth Street houses that Fred Lyon photographed decades ago can still be seen behind the home of Vincent Galea, at the top of his lush terraced garden. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fred Lyon, 93, the city's most famous and prolific photographer, couldn't remember where he shot 'Houses on the Hills' almost seven decades ago. Two KQED readers figured it out.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1511223639,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1785},"headData":{"title":"Mystery Solved: Crowdsourcing a Vanished View of San Francisco | KQED","description":"Fred Lyon, 93, the city's most famous and prolific photographer, couldn't remember where he shot 'Houses on the Hills' almost seven decades ago. Two KQED readers figured it out.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Mystery Solved: Crowdsourcing a Vanished View of San Francisco","datePublished":"2017-11-20T18:55:22.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-21T00:20:39.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11632348 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11632348","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/20/crowdsourcing-a-vanished-view-of-san-francisco/","disqusTitle":"Mystery Solved: Crowdsourcing a Vanished View of San Francisco","path":"/news/11632348/crowdsourcing-a-vanished-view-of-san-francisco","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sometimes, crowdsourcing works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it does, it can lead to improbable gatherings, like the one Friday morning in Noe Valley. There were five of us: a legendary lensman, an interior designer, a retired PG&E electrician, an engineer for United Airlines and me, a fan of photography and geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/09/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco/\">my story\u003c/a> earlier this month about 93-year-old photographer \u003ca href=\"http://www.fredlyon.com/\">Fred Lyon,\u003c/a> KQED asked readers to figure out where the picture \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews/photos/a.117611171646622.21467.107786349295771/1668921303182260/?type=3&theater\">\"Houses on the Hills\"\u003c/a> was shot. The image can be seen in his current \"San Francisco Noir\" exhibition at the \u003ca href=\"http://gallery.leicastoresf.com/exhibitions/current-exhibitions\">Leica Gallery\u003c/a> and in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.leicastoresf.com/248638\">new book\u003c/a> of the same name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629489 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where "Houses on the Hills" is located.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1166\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1180x917.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-960x746.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-240x187.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-375x292.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-520x404.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife spent hours driving around San Francisco searching for the location of 'Houses on the Hills.' \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lyon, a fourth-generation San Franciscan, has taken tens of thousands of photos in a career that began more than 70 years ago. When I asked where the houses were located, he said: \"That's a question we've been wrestling with ever since we discovered this negative about a year ago. Penny and I have spent hours driving around, but to no avail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon and his wife, interior designer \u003ca href=\"http://www.pennyrozis.com/\">Penelope Rozis,\u003c/a> believed he was looking west, because of the position of the sun, and suspected the houses were in the Excelsior or Crocker-Amazon. But it turns out they're actually in Noe Valley, on Worth Street. Lyon's photo, shot facing east from upper Grand View Avenue, captured the back of those dwellings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two San Francisco residents solved the puzzle separately -- with very different approaches -- after they spotted KQED's call for help on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aranda Jr. moved to the neighborhood 58 years ago with his parents, after they emigrated from Guatemala. He recognized the scene immediately because his house on 22nd Street is just steps from Worth Street. Eric Chesmar, on the other hand, relied on Google Maps and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214758672623284&set=p.10214758672623284&type=3&theater\">Google Earth.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You did it with the new technology,\" Aranda told Chesmar when we all met up on Worth Street. \"Me, I live here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chesmar said, \"I spent a lot of time zooming in, trying to match the rooflines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon was thrilled to meet them -- and vice versa. \"This has been the greatest mystery,\" he told Chesmar and Aranda. \"I was convinced they had moved a couple of large hills -- the government does that, you know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, more seriously, \"I was afraid the houses were gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those houses haven't gone anywhere. And neither have most of the people who live on Worth Street, which is only one block long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who live here have been here a long time,\" said retired carpenter David Meites, 77, who I chatted with earlier in the morning and has lived on Worth more than 40 years. \"It's like a very small bar. Even if you're not all that friendly, you're pushed into saying hello.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Worth Street hasn't changed much since Lyon took his photo in the late '40s or early '50s, the same can't be said for Grand View Avenue, where he was standing when he shot \"Houses on the Hills.\" He and Rozis could have driven around San Francisco for years without ever solving the puzzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I assumed that the camera was pointed west, into the afternoon sun. Actually, it was east, and the morning sun. It's an incredible relief to know where that is.'\u003ccite>Photographer Fred Lyon\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That's because a large brown-shingle house was built on lower Grand View in 1979, and it blocks most of the view that the photographer had enjoyed. After we'd made our way from Worth Street to upper Grand View, we saw how much things had changed. Lyon shuddered and shook his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At that time there were many empty lots,\" said Lyon, whose memory of being there quickly returned. \"I came here because it was a viewpoint.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11632353 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-160x73.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-800x367.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-1020x468.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-1180x541.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-960x440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-240x110.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-375x172.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28074_1938-worth-st-qut-520x238.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here's a screen shot of an aerial photograph of Worth Street in 1938, on the website of the San Francisco Planning Department. \u003ccite>(David Rumsey Map Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aranda was on a beach in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, when his wife spotted KQED's request for help. \"She said, 'I bet you can figure this out.' But I was leery I was correct until I saw the building behind the houses,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That building is \u003ca href=\"http://alvaradoschool.net/\">Alvarado Elementary School\u003c/a> on Douglass Street. It's where Aranda, 63, a retired electrician at PG&E substations, went to grade school, not long after he arrived from Central America. The ornate cornices that can be glimpsed in the photograph are long gone, Aranda said, because of concerns about earthquake safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632361\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11632361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28070_mystery-robert-fred-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Aranda Jr. takes a selfie on Worth Street in San Francisco with photographer Fred Lyon, whose work he has admired for many years. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chesmar, a composite engineer with United Airlines at SFO who lives in Bernal Heights, used a different strategy, scouring satellite photos on Google Maps to pinpoint the location: He looked for a hill with a contour that fit Lyon's picture and for a second taller hill nearby, from where the photo was taken. Since the sun was to the right of the hill -- and too high to be west -- Lyon must have been facing east or south. Then he searched for buildings with those shapes and windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process consumed about two hours. But after he noticed the steep stairway on 22nd Street, between Diamond and Collingwood, it took only another 15 minutes to zero in on where Lyon was standing almost seven decades ago. Then he verified his conclusion on Google Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had plenty of time,\" said Chesmar, 56, who is recovering from a mountain bike accident on Mount Tamalpais that broke his femur six weeks ago. He was recently allowed to drive a car again, but is still on crutches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632362\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11632362 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28071_msytery-eric-fred-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Chesmar, left, brought his iPad and Fred Lyon brought his camera to the very spot on upper Grand View Avenue in San Francisco where Lyon shot 'Houses on the Hills.' \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Days earlier, when I told Lyon where the houses were situated, he said, \"That makes perfect sense -- and proves once again that one's brain and memory are totally unreliable. I assumed that the camera was pointed west, into the afternoon sun. Actually, it was east, and the morning sun. It's an incredible relief to know where that is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leica Gallery director Alex Ramos, who was immensely curious about the location of the houses, also thought it was a sunset photograph with afternoon fog. \"My guess was way off,\" he said. \"Fred must have gotten up early to make this one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, Lyon and Rozis marveled as Chesmar used his iPad to explain his methodology. \"What great detective work,\" Rozis remarked. \"I can't tell you how amazing I think it is that you identified this,\" Lyon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED readers took a stab at the elusive location, they were as mystified as Lyon had been. Their guesses included: Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights, the Excelsior, Crocker-Amazon, Daly City, Silver Terrace, the Portola, South San Francisco, the Mission District, Hunters Point and the Inner Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon stood on upper Grand View Avenue -- the spot where he'd been with his 4x5 Linhof and tripod around the middle of the last century -- and took a few pictures of what is now a vastly altered view. \"A lot has changed, but a lot is still the same,\" he said of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Lyon is usually in discovery mode, looking at old photos and deciding what to keep and what to toss. He continually spots new things -- and so do some of the people who look at his pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon described his image of three men pushing a cable car at the Powell Street turnaround. A woman told him that her father was one of them -- his pipe was clenched in his mouth and he always wore his hat that way. \"And I thought, isn't this a sweet moment,\" Lyon recalled. \"And then she said, 'One day he took the family Cadillac and his secretary, and nobody's seen him since.' Don't tell me these things. I'm a romantic and I don't want to know that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike many of the photographs Lyon made for Life, Look and other publications, \"Houses on the Hills\" is horizontal. \"I realized early on that magazine pages were vertical and you got paid by the page,\" he said. \"I didn't want to settle for horizontals, so I forced verticals. And I thought that was fine because I was starving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're not now,\" Aranda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" Lyon agreed. \"If anything, I'm overfed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11632363 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon gave Robert Aranda Jr. a digital print of his "Houses on the Hills" photograph. It is temporarily keeping company with tequila bottles on Aranda's dining room table in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28072_mystery-tequila-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon gave Robert Aranda Jr. a digital print of his 'Houses on the Hills' photograph. It is temporarily keeping company with tequila bottles on Aranda's dining room table in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it was time to leave, a grateful Lyon presented Aranda and Chesmar with digital prints of \"Houses on the Hills.\" Aranda started to choke up. When I mentioned that the silver gelatin version on display at the Leica Gallery is priced at $5,000, they looked even more stunned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aranda, a big fan of Lyon's work, said he'll get the photograph matted and framed as soon as he can. We walked over to his house and he showed me exactly where it will go, in a prominent spot in the front hallway. Then he propped it up on the dining room table. surrounded by tequila bottles, and admired the view Lyon had enjoyed -- one that has seemingly vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a way to see it. Vincent Galea, 80, who has lived on Worth for 40-plus years, invited me to climb to the top of his terraced backyard garden, behind his house on the west side of the street. That is where Lyon's houses on the hills can still be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galea's home, in fact, is one of those houses. But he hadn't realized it until that moment, when we looked at a photocopy of the image that I'd brought along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd seen the picture before and I didn't put it together,\" Galea said. \"But I knew it was in the neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11632354 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28073_mystery-houses-on-worth-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The backs of the Worth Street houses that Fred Lyon photographed decades ago can still be seen behind the home of Vincent Galea, at the top of his lush terraced garden. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11632348/crowdsourcing-a-vanished-view-of-san-francisco","authors":["247"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_21946","news_2672","news_38","news_21947"],"featImg":"news_11632357","label":"news_72"},"news_11629475":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11629475","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11629475","score":null,"sort":[1510252055000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco","title":"Photographer Fred Lyon Is 93 and Still in Love With San Francisco","publishDate":1510252055,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou might think that 93-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.fredlyon.com/\">Fred Lyon\u003c/a>, whose photographs have captured San Francisco for seven decades, spends most of his time indulging in nostalgia and recoiling at the changes that have transformed the city of his birth. You'd be very wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco is still a magical city,\" said Lyon. \"If I were a little tougher, I'd put aside that sentimental romanticism. But the city is the people, and that's what persists. Maybe it's a sickness we all have, but we keep attempting to recreate a lot of what attracted us here in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His latest book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.leicastoresf.com/248638\">\"San Francisco Noir,\"\u003c/a> has just come out, and an exhibition of his photos opened a few weeks ago at the \u003ca href=\"http://gallery.leicastoresf.com/exhibitions/current-exhibitions\">Leica Gallery\u003c/a> and runs through Dec. 30. The opening was a mob scene, with hundreds of people jostling for a chance to get an autograph, a few minutes of conversation or a selfie with Lyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 27, he spent his birthday a few blocks away, speaking to a large audience at the Apple Store on Union Square, where he was billed as \"San Francisco's photography icon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut.jpg\" alt='Fred Lyon shot \"Foggy Night, Lands End\" on a classic San Francisco evening, not far from the Pacific Ocean. It is one of his most successful photographs.' width=\"1500\" height=\"1519\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-1020x1033.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-1180x1195.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-240x243.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-375x380.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-520x527.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon shot 'Foggy Night, Lands End' on a classic San Francisco evening, not far from the Pacific Ocean. It is one of his most successful photographs. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lyon, a fourth-generation San Franciscan who was born at St. Luke's Hospital, is having a very good time -- even though he doesn't wander the streets of his hometown the way he once did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I went to see my doctor last year, he said, 'How are you?' which you should never say to anyone past a certain age. I said, 'Well, my eyes don't work, my ears don't work, my hands have carpal tunnel and I can't straighten up anymore. But I'm fine,' \" Lyon recalled during a wide-ranging interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has photographed everyone from migrant workers to movie stars to presidents -- five to be exact -- and he traveled the world on assignment during the heyday of Life, Look, the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines, many long gone. But he is best known for his photographs of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629483 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut.jpg\" alt=\"'I am frequently seated here,' says photographer Fred Lyon, who puts in long hours in the studio of his San Francisco home. This picture was taken on Oct. 25, 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'I am frequently seated here,' says photographer Fred Lyon, who puts in long hours in the studio of his San Francisco home. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he current exhibition at the Leica Gallery consists of 63 photos, mostly taken between 1940 and 1960. Titled \"San Francisco Noir,\" like the book, the show reveals a moody and cinematic side of the city. There are dockworkers, beach walkers, a police car in the fog, fireworks during Chinese New Year and some of the musicians that Lyon loved -- Billie Holiday, Ralph Hawkins, Sonny Rollins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fred can tell you things about San Francisco you never knew,\" said Alex Ramos, gallery director at the Leica Store on Bush Street. \"These photographs are incredibly significant. They're a strong record of an era many of us haven't seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might be why the opening drew people of all ages. One of them was Josh Haftel, 38, product manager of mobile photography at Adobe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629484\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629484 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Josh Haftel (center), product manager of mobile photography at Adobe, chats with Fred Lyon at the opening of \"San Francisco Noir\" at the Leica Gallery in San Francisco on Oct. 12, 2017.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Haftel (center), product manager of mobile photography at Adobe, chats with Fred Lyon at the opening of 'San Francisco Noir' at the Leica Gallery in San Francisco on Oct. 12, 2017. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Fred Lyon has captured the heart and soul of San Francisco.\" said Haftel, who interviews photographers for his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2iBgGE41rM&list=PLD8AMy73ZVxVyjtlMg-fpnL_n1V9fr5xC&index=6&t=16s\">\"Make It\" show \u003c/a>and asked the nonagenarian to offer tips on storytelling and taking pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fred was a wonderful guest,\" Haftel said. \"He had a lot of history and passion to share. He's a fun and positive person with such a lust for life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In earlier times, that lust for life frequently surfaced in the city's bars and jazz joints, often with the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, who shared Lyon's fondness for the nocturnal world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were generally no drugs available then, so we were all booze-oriented,\" Lyon said. \"I have no idea why I'm still alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Fred can tell you things about San Francisco you never knew. These photographs are incredibly significant. They're a strong record of an era many of us haven't seen.'\u003ccite>Alex Ramos, Leica Gallery director\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was sitting in the studio of his Cow Hollow home, which happens to be on Lyon Street. It's near the Golden Gate Bridge and is convenient for trips to his cottage in the Napa Valley, where he grew wine grapes for 30 years. He was there on Oct. 8, hours before the wildfires broke out, and the flames burned close to his house on three sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His studio in the city is where Lyon spends much of his time. He works long days and a lot of weekends, but no longer pulls all-nighters. He said he's thrilled with how the Leica Gallery has handled his pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just love that place,\" Lyon said. \"Black and white really pops against that exposed brick wall. When it comes time to take the show down, I want to take the walls with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629487\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629487 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-800x837.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon spent a lot of the time on the San Francisco waterfront, which has changed a lot since he shot 'Dock Workers, Embarcadero.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-800x837.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-160x167.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-1020x1068.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-1180x1235.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-960x1005.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-240x251.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-375x393.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-520x544.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut.jpg 1433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon spent a lot of the time on the San Francisco waterfront, which has changed greatly since he photographed 'Dock Workers, Embarcadero.' \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]V[/dropcap]isiting the exhibition, one is struck at times by how much San Francisco has changed since the middle of the 20th century. But something else comes across as well -- how little it has changed in so many ways. There are certain constants: Fog. Hills. Cable cars. Bridges. Chinatown during Lunar New Year. Strolling on the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon's San Francisco is a timeless city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are certain things we cannot interrupt,\" Lyon said. \"We can't control the fog. And people are still crazy enough to go to Ocean Beach, which is a terrible beach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he notes that he has been \"reduced to a shuffle,\" Lyon still gets around the city and takes pictures occasionally. Two of them are in the Leica show and were shot this year: a line of trees at Fort Mason and the Mission District's 500 Club dive bar at night -- the latter image captured with the help of his wife, interior designer \u003ca href=\"http://www.pennyrozis.com/\">Penny Rozis.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Penny went out there because her job was to keep me from being hit by motorists,\" Lyon said. \"I want to be wherever the composition is right, and it's usually in the middle of traffic. I love the 500 Club because it has the cocktail glass and the neon sign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has always enjoyed shooting at night. \"It's akin to taking pictures in the fog,\" he said. \"It covers up a lot of human mistakes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629488 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-800x1133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1133\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-800x1133.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-1020x1445.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-960x1360.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-240x340.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-375x531.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-520x737.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon took \"Chop Suey, Fireworks During Chinese New Year\" in Chinatown in midcentury San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He gets mad at his body because it limits what he can do, but Lyon is not given to lamenting his various aches and pains -- or to hearing about anyone else's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm on my way out and I want to have things my way,\" he said. \"I don't want to waste time with people who just want to tell me where they hurt today. That's what old people do -- and they bore the hell out of me. I want to be around people who are doing stuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]yon is doing plenty. Besides promoting his new book, he is going through his files -- including 22,000 digitized images -- to find candidates for either future projects or the trash bin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The moment you die, people attach tremendous importance to your garbage,\" he said. \"I've done everything except combat. Aerials, underwater, whatever it takes to get the best perspective. But there are things I did as exercises or experiments, and I don't want those photos floating around. I've got to throw away all the bad images.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. For instance, he and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where \"Houses on the Hills\" -- on display in the Leica show -- is located. \"Perhaps we should have a contest,\" he said. \"Excelsior? Crocker-Amazon?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629489 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where "Houses on the Hills" is located.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1166\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1180x917.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-960x746.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-240x187.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-375x292.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-520x404.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where 'Houses on the Hills' is located. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2004, Lyon switched from film to digital, and he still marvels at how much it has simplified life. \"Before, a slide could only be in one place in the file cabinet,\" he said. \"In the computer, it can be anywhere and I can put together collections quickly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has become a fan of mobile photography. \"It's a wonderful time because everybody takes pictures now,\" Lyon said. \"They're seeing things and people as they never did before. It's sensitizing them visually. And people are also more relaxed about being photographed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he uses a Nikon D300 and most of the photographers he admires are of a different era: Arnold Genthe, Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau and Jacques-Henri Lartigue -- as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/brassa%C3%AF-gyula-hal%C3%A1sz?all/all/all/all/0\">Brassai,\u003c/a> with whom he's sometimes compared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1140px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11629492\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut.jpg\" alt=\"'After Hours Jam, Monterey Jazz Festival, Cannery Row' is one of Fred Lyon's favorite photos. It was taken in 1958.\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut.jpg 1140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-800x1053.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-1020x1342.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-960x1263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-240x316.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-375x493.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-520x684.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'After Hours Jam, Monterey Jazz Festival, Cannery Row' is one of Fred Lyon's favorite photos. It was taken in 1958. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]yon became fascinated with photography as a young teenager. \"Cameras were shiny objects,\" he said. \"I knew a guy who had one and he always seemed to have a lot of cute girls around him. I thought that if I had a camera, maybe I'd get girls, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He skipped two grades, graduated from high school early, apprenticed at the Gabriel Moulin Studio in San Francisco at age 14 and studied at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where Ansel Adams was a teacher, a year later. Lyon was a Navy photographer during World War II and then shot fashion in New York before returning in 1946 to the Bay Area as heir apparent to the family real estate business. But he had other ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Photography wasn't really an honorable profession,\" Lyon said. \"It wasn't a profession at all. When our family physician found out what I was doing, he said, 'Oh Frederick, that's no work for a man.' But it's the ideal pursuit for an inherently nosy person. You get to peek into everyone else's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I don't want to waste time with people who just want to tell me where they hurt today. That's what old people do -- and they bore the hell out of me. I want to be around people who are doing stuff.'\u003ccite>Photographer Fred Lyon\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lyon has had neither the time nor inclination to embrace nostalgia, but there are things he misses about the old San Francisco: He used to swim at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/sutro-baths.htm\">Sutro Baths.\u003c/a> Kids played in the streets. People didn't hurry and weren't on \"their damn iPhones all the time.\" There wasn't much traffic or all those \"killer buses.\" San Franciscans didn't dress like they were camping, and didn't wear baseball caps backward in good restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that I'm officially an antique, I can say that I'm old-fashioned,\" Lyon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And life was so much easier decades ago. \"At the end of the month the rent was due and I had to create excitement,\" he said. \"I remember going into the office of the Golden Gate Bridge and saying it would be fun to photograph the bridge painters (for a magazine). The guy says, 'That sounds fine. Go out and see Joe. He's the foreman. He'll fix you up.' I crawled around the bridge for a couple of weeks. Now you'd have to put up $10 million in insurance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lyon loves San Francisco in its current incarnation, especially certain things: The profusion of Thai restaurants. Bicycles everywhere. Fantastic fruits and vegetables. All the watercraft on the bay. A revitalized North Beach. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/landsend.htm\">Lands End Lookout.\u003c/a> And a lot more sidewalk trees, which \"cover up some execrable architecture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see pictures I would like to take,\" Lyon said. \"I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can't believe it. I keep thinking I'm being softened up for something really grim. And it hasn't happened yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A fourth-generation native, he has been chronicling his hometown for seven decades and keeps finding new things to shoot.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1510452562,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":2119},"headData":{"title":"Photographer Fred Lyon Is 93 and Still in Love With San Francisco | KQED","description":"A fourth-generation native, he has been chronicling his hometown for seven decades and keeps finding new things to shoot.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Photographer Fred Lyon Is 93 and Still in Love With San Francisco","datePublished":"2017-11-09T18:27:35.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-12T02:09:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11629475 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11629475","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/09/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco/","disqusTitle":"Photographer Fred Lyon Is 93 and Still in Love With San Francisco","path":"/news/11629475/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Y\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ou might think that 93-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.fredlyon.com/\">Fred Lyon\u003c/a>, whose photographs have captured San Francisco for seven decades, spends most of his time indulging in nostalgia and recoiling at the changes that have transformed the city of his birth. You'd be very wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco is still a magical city,\" said Lyon. \"If I were a little tougher, I'd put aside that sentimental romanticism. But the city is the people, and that's what persists. Maybe it's a sickness we all have, but we keep attempting to recreate a lot of what attracted us here in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His latest book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.leicastoresf.com/248638\">\"San Francisco Noir,\"\u003c/a> has just come out, and an exhibition of his photos opened a few weeks ago at the \u003ca href=\"http://gallery.leicastoresf.com/exhibitions/current-exhibitions\">Leica Gallery\u003c/a> and runs through Dec. 30. The opening was a mob scene, with hundreds of people jostling for a chance to get an autograph, a few minutes of conversation or a selfie with Lyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 27, he spent his birthday a few blocks away, speaking to a large audience at the Apple Store on Union Square, where he was billed as \"San Francisco's photography icon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut.jpg\" alt='Fred Lyon shot \"Foggy Night, Lands End\" on a classic San Francisco evening, not far from the Pacific Ocean. It is one of his most successful photographs.' width=\"1500\" height=\"1519\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-1020x1033.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-1180x1195.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-240x243.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-375x380.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-520x527.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27939_couple-in-fog-qut-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon shot 'Foggy Night, Lands End' on a classic San Francisco evening, not far from the Pacific Ocean. It is one of his most successful photographs. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lyon, a fourth-generation San Franciscan who was born at St. Luke's Hospital, is having a very good time -- even though he doesn't wander the streets of his hometown the way he once did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I went to see my doctor last year, he said, 'How are you?' which you should never say to anyone past a certain age. I said, 'Well, my eyes don't work, my ears don't work, my hands have carpal tunnel and I can't straighten up anymore. But I'm fine,' \" Lyon recalled during a wide-ranging interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has photographed everyone from migrant workers to movie stars to presidents -- five to be exact -- and he traveled the world on assignment during the heyday of Life, Look, the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines, many long gone. But he is best known for his photographs of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629483 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut.jpg\" alt=\"'I am frequently seated here,' says photographer Fred Lyon, who puts in long hours in the studio of his San Francisco home. This picture was taken on Oct. 25, 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27943_fred-in-his-studio-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'I am frequently seated here,' says photographer Fred Lyon, who puts in long hours in the studio of his San Francisco home. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he current exhibition at the Leica Gallery consists of 63 photos, mostly taken between 1940 and 1960. Titled \"San Francisco Noir,\" like the book, the show reveals a moody and cinematic side of the city. There are dockworkers, beach walkers, a police car in the fog, fireworks during Chinese New Year and some of the musicians that Lyon loved -- Billie Holiday, Ralph Hawkins, Sonny Rollins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fred can tell you things about San Francisco you never knew,\" said Alex Ramos, gallery director at the Leica Store on Bush Street. \"These photographs are incredibly significant. They're a strong record of an era many of us haven't seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might be why the opening drew people of all ages. One of them was Josh Haftel, 38, product manager of mobile photography at Adobe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629484\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629484 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Josh Haftel (center), product manager of mobile photography at Adobe, chats with Fred Lyon at the opening of \"San Francisco Noir\" at the Leica Gallery in San Francisco on Oct. 12, 2017.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27944_josh-fred-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Haftel (center), product manager of mobile photography at Adobe, chats with Fred Lyon at the opening of 'San Francisco Noir' at the Leica Gallery in San Francisco on Oct. 12, 2017. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Fred Lyon has captured the heart and soul of San Francisco.\" said Haftel, who interviews photographers for his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2iBgGE41rM&list=PLD8AMy73ZVxVyjtlMg-fpnL_n1V9fr5xC&index=6&t=16s\">\"Make It\" show \u003c/a>and asked the nonagenarian to offer tips on storytelling and taking pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fred was a wonderful guest,\" Haftel said. \"He had a lot of history and passion to share. He's a fun and positive person with such a lust for life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In earlier times, that lust for life frequently surfaced in the city's bars and jazz joints, often with the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, who shared Lyon's fondness for the nocturnal world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were generally no drugs available then, so we were all booze-oriented,\" Lyon said. \"I have no idea why I'm still alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Fred can tell you things about San Francisco you never knew. These photographs are incredibly significant. They're a strong record of an era many of us haven't seen.'\u003ccite>Alex Ramos, Leica Gallery director\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was sitting in the studio of his Cow Hollow home, which happens to be on Lyon Street. It's near the Golden Gate Bridge and is convenient for trips to his cottage in the Napa Valley, where he grew wine grapes for 30 years. He was there on Oct. 8, hours before the wildfires broke out, and the flames burned close to his house on three sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His studio in the city is where Lyon spends much of his time. He works long days and a lot of weekends, but no longer pulls all-nighters. He said he's thrilled with how the Leica Gallery has handled his pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just love that place,\" Lyon said. \"Black and white really pops against that exposed brick wall. When it comes time to take the show down, I want to take the walls with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629487\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629487 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-800x837.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon spent a lot of the time on the San Francisco waterfront, which has changed a lot since he shot 'Dock Workers, Embarcadero.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-800x837.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-160x167.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-1020x1068.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-1180x1235.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-960x1005.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-240x251.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-375x393.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-520x544.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27940_dock-workers-qut.jpg 1433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon spent a lot of the time on the San Francisco waterfront, which has changed greatly since he photographed 'Dock Workers, Embarcadero.' \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">V\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>isiting the exhibition, one is struck at times by how much San Francisco has changed since the middle of the 20th century. But something else comes across as well -- how little it has changed in so many ways. There are certain constants: Fog. Hills. Cable cars. Bridges. Chinatown during Lunar New Year. Strolling on the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon's San Francisco is a timeless city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are certain things we cannot interrupt,\" Lyon said. \"We can't control the fog. And people are still crazy enough to go to Ocean Beach, which is a terrible beach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he notes that he has been \"reduced to a shuffle,\" Lyon still gets around the city and takes pictures occasionally. Two of them are in the Leica show and were shot this year: a line of trees at Fort Mason and the Mission District's 500 Club dive bar at night -- the latter image captured with the help of his wife, interior designer \u003ca href=\"http://www.pennyrozis.com/\">Penny Rozis.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Penny went out there because her job was to keep me from being hit by motorists,\" Lyon said. \"I want to be wherever the composition is right, and it's usually in the middle of traffic. I love the 500 Club because it has the cocktail glass and the neon sign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has always enjoyed shooting at night. \"It's akin to taking pictures in the fog,\" he said. \"It covers up a lot of human mistakes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629488 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-800x1133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1133\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-800x1133.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-1020x1445.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-960x1360.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-240x340.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-375x531.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut-520x737.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27941_fireworks-qut.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon took \"Chop Suey, Fireworks During Chinese New Year\" in Chinatown in midcentury San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He gets mad at his body because it limits what he can do, but Lyon is not given to lamenting his various aches and pains -- or to hearing about anyone else's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm on my way out and I want to have things my way,\" he said. \"I don't want to waste time with people who just want to tell me where they hurt today. That's what old people do -- and they bore the hell out of me. I want to be around people who are doing stuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">L\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>yon is doing plenty. Besides promoting his new book, he is going through his files -- including 22,000 digitized images -- to find candidates for either future projects or the trash bin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The moment you die, people attach tremendous importance to your garbage,\" he said. \"I've done everything except combat. Aerials, underwater, whatever it takes to get the best perspective. But there are things I did as exercises or experiments, and I don't want those photos floating around. I've got to throw away all the bad images.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. For instance, he and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where \"Houses on the Hills\" -- on display in the Leica show -- is located. \"Perhaps we should have a contest,\" he said. \"Excelsior? Crocker-Amazon?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629489 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where "Houses on the Hills" is located.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1166\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1180x917.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-960x746.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-240x187.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-375x292.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-520x404.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where 'Houses on the Hills' is located. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2004, Lyon switched from film to digital, and he still marvels at how much it has simplified life. \"Before, a slide could only be in one place in the file cabinet,\" he said. \"In the computer, it can be anywhere and I can put together collections quickly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has become a fan of mobile photography. \"It's a wonderful time because everybody takes pictures now,\" Lyon said. \"They're seeing things and people as they never did before. It's sensitizing them visually. And people are also more relaxed about being photographed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he uses a Nikon D300 and most of the photographers he admires are of a different era: Arnold Genthe, Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau and Jacques-Henri Lartigue -- as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/brassa%C3%AF-gyula-hal%C3%A1sz?all/all/all/all/0\">Brassai,\u003c/a> with whom he's sometimes compared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1140px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11629492\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut.jpg\" alt=\"'After Hours Jam, Monterey Jazz Festival, Cannery Row' is one of Fred Lyon's favorite photos. It was taken in 1958.\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut.jpg 1140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-800x1053.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-1020x1342.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-960x1263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-240x316.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-375x493.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27938_cannery-row-qut-520x684.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'After Hours Jam, Monterey Jazz Festival, Cannery Row' is one of Fred Lyon's favorite photos. It was taken in 1958. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">L\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>yon became fascinated with photography as a young teenager. \"Cameras were shiny objects,\" he said. \"I knew a guy who had one and he always seemed to have a lot of cute girls around him. I thought that if I had a camera, maybe I'd get girls, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He skipped two grades, graduated from high school early, apprenticed at the Gabriel Moulin Studio in San Francisco at age 14 and studied at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where Ansel Adams was a teacher, a year later. Lyon was a Navy photographer during World War II and then shot fashion in New York before returning in 1946 to the Bay Area as heir apparent to the family real estate business. But he had other ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Photography wasn't really an honorable profession,\" Lyon said. \"It wasn't a profession at all. When our family physician found out what I was doing, he said, 'Oh Frederick, that's no work for a man.' But it's the ideal pursuit for an inherently nosy person. You get to peek into everyone else's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I don't want to waste time with people who just want to tell me where they hurt today. That's what old people do -- and they bore the hell out of me. I want to be around people who are doing stuff.'\u003ccite>Photographer Fred Lyon\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lyon has had neither the time nor inclination to embrace nostalgia, but there are things he misses about the old San Francisco: He used to swim at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/sutro-baths.htm\">Sutro Baths.\u003c/a> Kids played in the streets. People didn't hurry and weren't on \"their damn iPhones all the time.\" There wasn't much traffic or all those \"killer buses.\" San Franciscans didn't dress like they were camping, and didn't wear baseball caps backward in good restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that I'm officially an antique, I can say that I'm old-fashioned,\" Lyon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And life was so much easier decades ago. \"At the end of the month the rent was due and I had to create excitement,\" he said. \"I remember going into the office of the Golden Gate Bridge and saying it would be fun to photograph the bridge painters (for a magazine). The guy says, 'That sounds fine. Go out and see Joe. He's the foreman. He'll fix you up.' I crawled around the bridge for a couple of weeks. Now you'd have to put up $10 million in insurance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lyon loves San Francisco in its current incarnation, especially certain things: The profusion of Thai restaurants. Bicycles everywhere. 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