Automobile

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Mission & 22nd
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Mission & 22nd

View north from center of Mission St. Columbia Outfitting Co., New Mission Market at left, Wigwam Theatre in right distance.

Mission
Mission & 22nd
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Mission & 22nd

Looking north on Mission. Columbia Outfitting Co. at left, WigWam Theatre at right (later the New Rialto, the Crown and the Cine Latino).

Mission
Grant Ave. near Maiden Lane
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Grant Ave. near Maiden Lane

View north from center of Grant to auto parade with 10 or more identical cars lined up.,Sommer & Kauffman store 119 Grant Ave., Roemer Engraving Co. on left

Downtown / Union Square
Webster near Vallejo
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Webster near Vallejo

Auto climbing steep section of Webster St.. View north from Pacific Heights. Undeveloped Marina Green with airplane hangar, and SF Bay in distance.

Pacific Heights
Skyline Boulevard
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Skyline Boulevard

View east from Skyline Boulevard, toward the clubhouse of Olympic Club. In the background, John Daly Quarry, KPH Radio Towers, Woodrow Wilson School, San Bruno Mountain (behind car) and the Colma Cemeteries. [SF Examiner July 8, 1923, pg56 - The Olympic Club has finished its lateral connecting the main Skyline boulevard shown here, which will enable visitors and club members to reach the golf course over the new highway, which connects with the Great Highway at the intersection of Sloat boulevard. The Buick auto was snapped with the Lakeside clubhouse in background.]

Lakeshore
Top of Mt. Olympus
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Top of Mt. Olympus

Triumph of Light statue, surveyor, steam shovel, with man in car parked in front.

Buena Vista
Fillmore near Marina
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Fillmore near Marina

Three Nash cars in undeveloped Marina District. View north on Fillmore St. SF Bay in background.

Marina
Chestnut & Avila
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Chestnut & Avila

F-line streetcar #41 with two autos, looking west on Chestnut Street to Presidio in distance.

Marina
Market near Fremont
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Market near Fremont

View east on Market, Auto Parade with men riding on running board with flags. Ferry Building in the distance. Market St. Railway (MSRy) streetcar #159? on right. Ferry, Southern Pacific, Matson & PG&E Buildings in background. Moise-Klinkner Co at Fremont St. corner in background.

Financial District
Cars at SP Depot
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Cars at SP Depot

Welcoming Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra

South of Market
Post & Van Ness
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Post & Van Ness

Demonstrating new Birdcage style traffic signal

Lower Nob Hill
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Streetcar at Ferry Building terminus. Crew posing along with auto (1927 Chandler Sedan) Sign for the Sausalito Auto Ferry in the background.

Financial District
Fulton & Larkin
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Fulton & Larkin

View northwest to man posing in car, Bliss and Faville's California State Office Building (later Earl Warren Building) under construction on McAllister in background

Civic Center
Twin Peaks Blvd.
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Twin Peaks Blvd.

View East on north end of Twin Peaks Boulevard toward Eureka Valley and Potrero Hill in the distance. Car going uphill past the horseshoe curve.

Clarendon Heights
San Carlos
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San Carlos

Man with car on wooden track at the Greater SF Speedway, San Carlos, California Opened in December 1921, burned in June 1922

Outside SF