Mission St at Persia Ave
View northeast across Mission to approaching SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 14-Line #940 In background, Granada Theatre playing 'Magnificent Doll' with Ginger Rogers and David Niven,
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Steuart & Embarcadero
View north to Hills Bros Coffee with boxcars on Steuart St. siding. Ferry Building tower at right. Rear of Sherwin-Williams sign.
Financial District
Candlestick Cove
View north over the Candlestick Cove housing project, built in 1943 as housing for Hunters Point Naval Shipyard workers. The development started to be demolished for the US101 freeway in the mid 1950s and the remainder demolished in the late 1960s. Bayview Hill in the background. (photo taken as a survey of condemned buildings due to planned freeway construction)
Candlestick Point
1st St & Market
Muni L-Line #1026 with wings livery, looking north on First Street toward Bush, Battery, Market intersection. Shell Building, Union Carbide in Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect), in background left.
Downtown
28th Ave & Taraval
View looking northwest across Taraval St. at 28th Ave. Municipal Railway (MUNI) L-Line streetcar #125 passing Richfield gas station.
Parkside
Market & Van Ness
Muni (Municipal Railway) L-line PCC streetcar #1157 boarding passengers on Market Street. Great Western Furniture in background.
Civic Center
Mission near Crescent
View northeast on Mission to 14-line MSRy 1551, buildings on east side of Mission. Beauty Salon, Peter's Market. Church in photo extant 2018 as Casa de Barro Free Methodist Church, steeple removed. Was Bethel Full Gospel Assembly Church in 1940.
St. Marys Park
California & Grant
View west up California to Mark Hopkins Hotel in distance. Sing Fat Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (later Cogswell College, Ritz Carlton Hotel) up hill on left. Cathay House Restaurant. 720 California, then Hartford Insurance Building, at far right. Lanterns strung across intersection.
Chinatown
Washington across Drumm
View northeast to old Produce District, now SF Golden Gateway. Jacobs Malcom & Burtt, Scatena-Galli Fruit co. flatbed truck. Embaracadero Freeway, Bay Bridge tower in background right.
Waterfront
7th & Folsom
View north on 7th toward Folsom. Building at left (Doane Paper Company 298 7th Street, built 1926) still stands 2021. Hotel Empire / McAllister Tower at McAllister and Leavenworth in the distance. 7th Street is not yet cut through north of Market. Mobil Gas Station with Gargoyle Mobil Oil sign on right.
South of Market
9th & Folsom
View North on 9th Street from Folsom. Civic Auditorium and City Hall Dome in the background. White House Club restaurant, Normandie Hotel at right. 19-line streetcar in the distance.
South of Market
Grant near California
Looking north into Chinatown. Old St. Mary's Church on right
Chinatown
3rd & Folsom
View South on 3rd Street from Folsom. Remnants of Greek Town. Regal Hotel, Venus Club, Hellas Hardware Cosmopolitan Market, Nevada Club, Do-Nut King Bakery. Bay Bridge Approach crosses the view. 3rd Street (Lefty O'Doul) Bridge in the background.
South of Market
Folsom & 9th St
View south down 9th to Potrero Hill in far distance. American Automatic Electric Sales Co. 325 9th, at left. Buildings at left (and some others) still stand, 2022.
South of Market
St. Francis Circle
View north to M-Line #133, Arden Wood Christian Science Sanatorium, Sterling Furniture Co. billboard with clock on top.
Merced Manor