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Ocean Beach
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Ocean Beach

Early car ad photo, somewhere along Great Highway

Ocean Beach
Playland at the Beach
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Playland at the Beach

Great Highway and Cabrillo. Wartime crowds on sidewalk

Richmond
Great Highway
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Great Highway

Auto on Great Highway near Cabrillo. Chutes in background, Loof Carousel at right.

Richmond
Topsy's Roost Advertising Auto
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Topsy's Roost Advertising Auto

Promotional automobile for Topsy's Roost parked on the Great Highway, Cliff House in the background.

Richmond
19th Ave & Quintara
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19th Ave & Quintara

View from 19th Avenue to northeast corner with Quintara Street. Sunset Terrace entry post at corner. The backs of houses along 18th Avenue are visible in the background. [DPW A5076]

Parkside
19th Ave & Ulloa
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19th Ave & Ulloa

View northeast across 19th Avenue to undeveloped corner at Ulloa Street. Billboard reading 'Vote No Proposition 20 / The Taxpayers Defense League.' (Ironically, the Proposition, in the March, 1937 election, banned billboards on the Bay Bridge approaches.) Hawk Hill, Golden Gate Heights in background. [A5078 2-26-37 19th Ave. Cor. Ulloa St.]

Parkside
PPIE
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PPIE

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, An illustrated Gabriel-Meyerfeld postcard advertising the Judell Smoke Shop which was located next to the Bowls of Joy on the Zone.

Marina
Van Ness and Geary
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Van Ness and Geary

Elevated view northwest across Van Ness. Great White Fleet Naval Parade. Colonel John A. Lundeen, Commander of the Presidio leads his men. The clothing store, Strauss, Greenberg, and Sachs at 1241 Van Ness is seen at left. [Fleet Parade, Col. Lundeen and Staff]

Lower Nob Hill
Van Ness and Geary
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Van Ness and Geary

Great White Fleet Naval Parade, elevated view northwest across Van Ness and Geary. The parade marched north on Van Ness to Washington St., then turned around and marched south. The clothing store, Strauss, Greenberg, and Sachs at 1241 Van Ness is seen at left. Fleet Parade]

Lower Nob Hill
Skyline from Nob Hill
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Skyline from Nob Hill

Hunter-Dulin and Hobart buildings at center. Post Street runs through the middle. Taken from the St. Francis Hotel, Union Square in foreground. Whittell Building at right

Downtown
McLaren Park Study
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McLaren Park Study

[Mission Park 3-1-26] McLaren Park (originally called Mission Park) study: Geneva Ave looking east showing the power plant at Schwerin Ave and San Bruno Mountain on right.

Visitacion Valley
Crossover Drive
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Crossover Drive

Oiled subgrade during WPA construction of Crossover Drive in Golden Gate Park; looking north towards 25th and Fulton Street entrance

Golden Gate Park
Crossover Drive
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Crossover Drive

WPA construction of Crossover Drive in Golden Gate Park; note the WPA sign, center right.

Golden Gate Park
Page near Stanyan
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Page near Stanyan

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west toward Park to refugee breadline on Page St. near Stanyan St. Young Men's Hebrew Association at 1966 Page on left, where Boys & Girls Club is today.

Haight Ashbury
Sutter near Powell
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Sutter near Powell

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to south side of Sutter, to billboards on side of brick building for Fischer's Vaudeville Theatre, Novelty Theatre, both destroyed. See also wnp37.03027. (AS)

Downtown