Howard near 4th
View east on Howard [from 200' W of 5th] to 4th St. Intersection, Costigan & Co. Employment Agency 803 Howard, Hotel Netherland 203 4th [dpwbook5 dpw1418]
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3rd near Folsom
View northeast across 3rd Street between Howard and Folsom. Denver rooming house. Mutual Savings Bank, Williams and Hearst Examiner Buildings in distance far left. [dpwbook9 dpw2040]
South of Market
2nd & Mission
View north on 2nd Street to approaching Municipal Railway (Muni) 41-Line #808. Pedestrians crossing Mission in front of Wells Fargo Express/ Railway Express building. Hobart Building on Market in background. Pressler's Clothes, The Black & White Cafeteria, Armbruster Engraving Co., Birdcage traffic signal.
Financial District
Clement & 25th Ave
Lone Star Bar, with flats above, at 2350 Clement Street, built 1906. The location is now a produce store. View north on 25th Avenue at left.
Richmond Outer
Irving near 41st Ave
H.Shnider Clothing Store 3932 Irving Street, between 40th and 41st Avenues. Harry Shnider and his wife lived above the shop at 3934 Irving, and had another store on Geary Street.
Sunset Outer
California & 22nd Ave
5950 and 5954 California Street are retail spaces on the northeast corner of 22nd Avenue. Residential units above, with entrance (and addresses) on the 22nd Avenue side. Built 1913. Dick's Barber Shop (sign reads: 'Dick's Haircuts are simply swell, it pays to look well') and Sea Cliff Market. Back of Muni Line-1 trolley bus at right. (Still extant 2023.)
24th & San Bruno Ave
View southwest across intersection to Mc's (Frank W. McCorkle) Barber Shop below a residence on 24th Street. USC Smoke Shop to right. Buildings in view still stand 2020.
Potrero Hill
24th near San Bruno Ave
View south across street to 2437-2439-2441 24th Street, 3-flat building built in 1907. Substantially unchanged in 2020, without retail space at street level.
Potrero Hill
24th near San Bruno Ave
View south across 24th to Simi's Barber Shop on the ground floor, and residential apartments upstairs at 2431. Building still stands in 2020 with decorative trim removed and siding on facade, street level retail space converted to residence.
Potrero Hill
24th near Florida
View south across 24th street between Florida and Alabama. St. Peter's Church in the background with Sandy's Barber Shop (2913 24th Street) and San Francisco Florist (2915 24th Street) in the foreground. The building to the right is Leary Brothers Morticians.
Mission
Balboa & 18th Ave
594 18th Avenue is a dwelling built in 1917, with storefronts on Balboa. Alice's Fountain Lunch, Bob's Barber Shop and Shaddy Realty pictured.
Richmond Inner
Post near Montgomery
Elevated view southeast to Post Street side of 660 Market. Crocker Bldg and Realty Bldg 1924, Post St. Front. Nugget Cafe Grill, California Lithograph Co., Thomas Cook & Son. Palace Hotel in background. [Crocker Estate Album]
Downtown / Union Square
4th & Howard
Looking north toward Market Street. In the far distance you can see the St Francis Hotel, Academy of Sciences and Pioneer Hall. At far left, New Golden Gate Hotel 164 4th Street. Saloon with Wunder Beer sign at right at Natoma St. corner. [Rerailing 4th St between Howard & Mission]. . - United Railroads [U00457]
South of Market
Kearny & Washington
View north on Kearny to busy street scene. A Penny Arcade is in what was formerly the entry to the Bella Union Theater at left. At this time, Peter Bacigalupi, a pioneer in bringing moving pictures to San Francisco in 1894, ran this and another Penny Arcade. Also, Pioneer Tom & Jerry Saloon, Saloon with Wunder Beer sign, rooming houses, laundry wagon, restaurants, streetcars and bars. California Hotel in distance at Columbus (then Montgomery Ave.) corner. Telegraph Hill in the distance. [TEH498 Kearny St North of Washington. Aug 1905] (AS)
Chinatown
Mission & 3rd
Elevated view southwest to M.A. Gunst Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), corner of Mission and 3rd, built 1907. Rochester clothing store at street level, California Lamp Shade Co. and U.S. Army Recruiting Station on upper floors. Present day site of Yerba Buena Gardens. At left, Colorado House rooming house, J.J. Bolger men's clothes, Provident Jewelry Co., Frank's Coffee Parlor. At right, United Auto Supply Co., Saltzman's Furniture.
South of Market