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California near Powell
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California near Powell

View east on California between Powell and Stockton. Cable car descending hill Bay Bridge under construction in distance. [California Street Hill, San Francisco]

Nob Hill
Grant & Washington
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Grant & Washington

View north on Grant from Washington. 2 way traffic on Grant. K.K. Chu Herbs, Li Po Cocktail Lounge on right. [San Francisco Chinatown Jem 74]

Chinatown
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

View east from center of street to Wendell Willkie motorcade. 660 Market Building, Crocker Building, Hobart Building in background.

Downtown / Union Square
Florida & Precita
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Florida & Precita

View southeast to MSRy 36-Line #901 [#36 lines. Running full time week days] Duplicate of wnp27.3603

Peralta Heights
California near Powell
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California near Powell

View east to approaching cable car; University Club (1908, Bliss & Faville architects) and Fairmont Hotel on left. Stanford Apartments, later Stanford Court Hotel, at right.

Nob Hill
Stockton & Post
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Stockton & Post

view southwest across Union Square to St. Francis Hotel

Downtown / Union Square
Green near Mason
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Green near Mason

[Coit Memorial 1933] Looking east toward Powell, Coit Tower in background

Russian Hill
California near Battery
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California near Battery

View west from sidewalk along north side of California to TLOH Food Shop (Later site of Tadich Grill)

Financial District
Market near Church
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Market near Church

Flooded street view south across Market toward Church Street, cars driving through flooded intersection. [SF 600384....New York Bureau; Flash Flood hits San Francisco -- Automobiles plowed through hub-deep water from curb to curb here when a 'flash flood' -- caused by .55-of-an-inch of rain in thirty minutes -- drenched the city and left the highest seasonal rainfall total in fifty-years.] Market Street Restaurant, 2097 Market.

Mission Dolores
Columbus & Stockton
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Columbus & Stockton

View north across Columbus toward Green and Stockton at right. 532 Columbus (with original dome) at center. Building at right demolished The spires of Ss. Peter & Paul Church in the background. E-line streetcar at left. Birdcage traffic signals.

North Beach
Mt. Tamalpais
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Mt. Tamalpais

Chevrolet auto parked in front of West Point Inn.

Market near Spear
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Market near Spear

Shriners Parade, Governor Goodwin Knight and wife in automobile. Southern Pacific Building in background.

Financial District
California near Powell
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California near Powell

View east down California to people waiting in street for approaching cable car. University Club on corner at left. In distance left, 720 California St. building with 2 story addition, Home Insurance Co. (later Fireman's Fund) Building with Colonial tower. In distance right, construction elevator for northern addition to Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building (later Cogswell College and Ritz-Carlton Hotel). In far distance, Bay Bridge and Ferry Building tower.

Nob Hill
Embarcadero & Lombard
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Embarcadero & Lombard

Auto ad photo, posed with engine #4 from Belt Line outside roundhouse on Embarcadero

Northern Waterfront
Sacramento near Taylor
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Sacramento near Taylor

Nob Hill, view southeast across Huntington Park toward Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion) and Mark Hopkins Hotel. Morsehead Apartments, 1001 California, at far right. (very dark, with dramatic clouds) [Mark Hopkins Hotel & Pacific Union Club]

Nob Hill