From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:

We are back in San Francisco. I forgot to say that we had to take another Ferry to get to Ross and it was fun coming back because I saw the Golden Gate and the city looked so important from the boat. We came back because tomorrow is Grandfather’s birthday, and I like celebrating it better than California’s. There is going to be a party at our house. A telegram came from my father. I don’t understand telegrams. I keep looking up at the telegraph poles, but I never see anything like telegrams flying across the wires. I made Grandfather a pen wiper nearly like the one I made for my father, but it’s dark blue and green to match his house jacket.

Hilda took the ferry long before the Golden Gate Bridge or Bay Bridges were built. Click here for photos by Ansel Adams of before and after the Golden Gate Bridge was built.