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Market & Van Ness
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Market & Van Ness

View southeast across Market to damaged street, Symon Bros. Wreckers, Central Plumbing Supply, Hotel Whitcomb in distance left. [Market Street and Van Ness Avenue 5:00 PM] - United Railroads [U05369]

Civic Center
Market near Kearny
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Market near Kearny

Elevated view southeast across Market to Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel and Nucleus Block building at right, under construction, 3 of its eventual 5 stories completed. Lotta's Fountain at lower left. Horsecar tracks. Poster for Yerba Buena Bitters on fence at right. [Palace Hotel, from Market Street, view East. 3547]

Downtown / Union Square
Misson Viaduct
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Misson Viaduct

View northeast across Mission Viaduct over Alemany to southbound Market Street Railway (MSRy) 12-line Car #1645. St. Mary's Park neighborhood, Junipero Serra Elementary School in background left.

Mission Terrace
Geary near Arguello
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Geary near Arguello

View northeast across Geary B-line #83 with wings livery; Larkins Building (former Park & Ocean Railroad Co. Geary St. Carbarn), with signage for Brown Buick Co. in background. E.L Coburn & Co. Insurance, Snack Bar in background left. The B and C cars ended service on December 29, 1956.

Richmond Inner
Market near Castro
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Market near Castro

View southwest down Market to Castro and Market cable car with Twin Peaks (with giant sign for Cook's Water) in background. Wulzen's Drugs on corner. Same image with slightly different cropping at wnp33.00531.

Castro
Market near Sansome
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Market near Sansome

Elevated view west on Market to Call Building, Chronicle Building, Crocker Building, Union Trust / Wells Fargo Building, original Hobart Building. Busy street scene with cable cars, dray wagons. Large Wieland Beer signage. [Market St. July 1905 T.E. Hecht] TEH

Financial District
Van Ness & Olive
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Van Ness & Olive

View east across Van Ness to Republic Tires & Rebublic Trucks signs, Henry Apartments with Lee Union-Alls sign (Ellis St. Apartments in 2019); Whitestone Apartments (built 1915, extant 2019).[SC5]

Cathedral Hill
10th & Market
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10th & Market

View northwest to man walking with streetcar approaching. Margaret Neiderholzer Collection

South of Market
St. Mary's Square
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St. Mary's Square

View northeast to mother and son in stroller at St. Mary's Square. Helvetia Hotel, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel) in background. Lee Collection

Chinatown
Geary & Masonic
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Geary & Masonic

View northwest across Geary to C-line streetcar, Muni #1 "Special" with wings livery, Bekins Storage building in background. Disabled passengers getting off.

Anza Vista
Bayshore near 3rd
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Bayshore near 3rd

[Main artery of the city from the south is Bayshore Boulevard, shown here looking north at the intersection with Third Street]

Candlestick Point
Sixth & Harrison
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Sixth & Harrison

St. Charles Bachelor Hotel 456 Sixth Street; associated gas; L. D. Allen auto and truck ads

South of Market
Van Ness & O'Farrell
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Van Ness & O'Farrell

CView south on Van Ness toward City Hall. At right, Countryman Building, Hotel Savoy, Masonic Temple in distance. At left, group of men in front of wooden shack with piles of wood, Henry Apartments 864 Ellis. Shell Oil Co. Gas station with decorative lamp posts at Ellis St. corner, Geneva Apartments 840 Van Ness. Same image with different cropping at wnp4.1403.

Tenderloin
Tenth & Market
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Tenth & Market

View northwesterly across Market from 10th Street toward Polk and Fell. S. A. Scherer Auto Loans; Dog & Cat Hospital, U.S. Navy Clinic in the background center[10th & Market Sts. Northwesterly to Fell & Polk Sts.][dpwA5143]

South of Market
California near Grant
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California near Grant

View west uphill towards Nob Hill. Cable car upper center. Yamato Sukiyaki, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building at left. 720 California building at far right.

Chinatown