Photos: San Francisco

During a lull in business on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, a boatman takes a siesta.  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)

In the Musee Mecanique on Pier 45 in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf area, a vintage arcade game claims to measure a player’s passion.  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)

Atop the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, a free observation tower offers striking vistas.  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)

Penguins are among the attractions at San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences.  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)

When 25 artists with federal funding painted the murals at the base of San Francisco’s Coit Tower in 1934, they included this news stand scene from Victor Arnautoff’s “City Life.”  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)

Future chefs set up a buffet at the California Culinary Academy, where diners can sample students’ schoolwork.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

A clothing store uses an oversized pair of legs to promote itself along Haight Street in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. (The Haight and Ashbury signs are part of a promotional display, not the actual street signs.)  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)

A few steps off Haight Street in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, two street musicians play a Led Zeppelin song.  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)

The Summer of Love is long past, but the storefronts and graffiti of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district continue to celebrate rebellion and counterculture.  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)

The Red Victorian, today a bed and breakfast and café on Haight Street in San Francisco, was a crash pad in the 1960s.  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)

San Francisco’s War Memorial Performing Arts Center, completed in 1932, includes the Herbst Theatre, where plans for creation of the United Nations were laid in 1945, beneath a series of eight massive paintings by Frank Brangwyn.  (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)