Automobile

Contains 4894 photos

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California near Stockton

View southeast to two California Street Cable Cars passing- Sabin Pl. and 720 California St. building before 2 story addition, Financial Center Building, Southern Pacific Building, Bay Bridge, Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Hotel Lafayette, Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Shell Building, Russ Building and Alexander Building in background. Hotel Lafayette, Clunie Building in distance left, with Lincoln National Life ad on west side, Sing Fat Co. Landscaping at right spells Metropolitan Life Insurance, on grounds of Metropolitan Life Insurance Building.

1938 Chinatown

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Golden Gate Park

Portals of the Past at Lloyd Lake, with Pontiac. Columns from the entrance to the Alban Towne Mansion on Nob Hill, destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. Portal moved to Golden Gate Park in 1909.

1939 Golden Gate Park

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Fillmore & Fulton

22-line streetcar #885 looking north. New Yorker, Uptown Hotel. At left, Gold Mirror before move to 18th and Taraval.

1946 Alamo Square

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Grant near Sacramento

Chinatown. View north on Grant Ave. from Sacramento St.

1928 Chinatown

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Turk near Leavenworth

200 block of Turk, looking west, 288 club at right

1950 Tenderloin

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Market & Annie

Portola Festival Queen Ann Bucher and TV "Queen For A Day" Dorothy Young on float passing Palace Hotel

1948 Downtown / Union Square

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Embarcadero near Pier 15

View north on Embarcadero. Crowd blocking Embarcadero. Traffic jam, men standing atop freight cars.

1937 Northern Waterfront

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West Portal near Ulloa

View northeast to M-line MUNI streetcar #158. Twin Peaks Tunnel portal in background left. Adeline Bake Shop at right.

1949 West Portal

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Waller & Stanyan

View northeast across Stanyan to Waller, 33-line Market Street Railway (MSRy) streetcar #757. Rear of Haight Street car barn visible at left.

1935 Haight Ashbury

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Market & Front

View northwest across Market to Market and Front intersection, inbound C-line Streetcar #20. Board of Trade Building at right with Cardinal Pictures store.

1936 Financial District

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Cesar Chavez & Mission

Elevated view east over Mission, down Army Street (now Cesar Chavez). Street widening on north side of Army in progress. In distance, Potrero Hill (left) and Bernal Heights in background. St. Anthony of Padua Church, large gas holding tank on Army. Cogswell Polytechnic College, J.W. Allen DeSoto dealership at upper left. Building in foreground housing Oliver Paint Company and building beyond have had their upper stories removed are are in the process of demolition.

1949 Mission

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Cabrillo near 48th Ave

View east on Cabrillo Street towards approaching Muni B-line streetcar #97 with wings livery crossing 48th Ave. Safeway supermarket parking lot now occupies area at lower right.

1949 Richmond Outer

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Market & 10th

Looking northeast across market to Fox Theater (Swiss Family Robinson played in January & February, 1961)

1961 Civic Center

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Sloat at Great Highway

Automobile at intersection of Sloat Blvd and south end of Great Highway

1921 Parkside

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Sacramento & Grant

View to northwest corner, Nanking Fook Woh and Company. [2291]

1910 Chinatown