Two coders used old photographs to make a Google Street View map of San Francisco in the 1800s - and it's mesmerizing

Point Lobos Avenue and 43rd, Dick's Saloon, 1890

Central Park, 8th and Mission streets, around 1887

Group of people overlooking the Cliff House from Sutro Heights, 1890

Bush Street, west of Kearny, 1877

Palm Avenue in Jefferson Square, 1881

View from City Hall, looking South, down 8th st. at Central Park, 1896

Woodward's Gardens, 1864

California Street Looking East From Montgomery, 1865

Exterior of the What Cheer House on the south side of Sacramento Street below Montgomery, 1865

Building on northeast corner of Front and California streets, 1890

Baldwin Hotel Bar, 1880

Steuart Street, 1864

J. C. Flood Mansion, California Street, 1886

St. Luke's Episcopal Church, southeast corner of Sacramento street & Van Ness, 1895

Sacramento St. and Van Ness Avenue, 1887

Woodward's Gardens, 1874

Miss Lake's School for Young Ladies, corner Sutter and Octavia Streets, 1890

Howard Street, looking east from Sixth Street, (horse car), 1866

1919 California Street, 1887

Southern Pacific Passenger Depot, 1879

Cablecar at South Park, 1865

Fire Engine No. 13 at 1458 Valencia Street, 1884

Shotwell Street, near Twentieth. Snowfall, 1887

The Willows, 18th & Valencia Sts., 1864

Musicians performing outside the "Haunted Swing" at the Midwinter Fair in Golden Gate Park, 1894