The gold rush,the earthquakes, the civil rights movement, or the Summer of Love,the rise of Silicon Valley. In the week main up to Super Bowl 50, Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the mighty cities of the world
1. Gold rush abandoned ships1849: Vessels lie abandoned in San Francisco Bay. Whole crews discarded their ships for the gold fields. They were eventually salvaged for their wood and furnishings.
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Source: theguardian.com