Waverly near Clay
Chinatown. View north on Waverly Place. Signs on building at left "Oldest Joss House. Visitors Welcome" and "Tin How Temple".
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Fillmore near Sutter
View north on Fillmore to United Railroads (URR) 22-line streetcars, #1318 and #1402. Decorative steel arches with hanging glass globes. Jitney car. Old Homestead delivery truck. Billy's Cigar Store 1800 Fillmore, The Sweeterie candies and ice cream, Alpha and Lewis Winthrall Chiropodists 1805 Fillmore. [URR U06961]
Lower Pacific Heights
Church at 30th
View northeast across intersection to southbound Muni J-line #74 and passengers filling street. Barbershop, Sonoma House Grocer, Fountain.
Fairmount
Pacific Telephone Building
View east on Minna St. to Pacific Telephone Building
South of Market
16th & Mission
View across intersection to southeast corner. Lachman Bros.,16th & Mission Sts. McKinley Market, Roddy's Bar, 'Star Tobacco', 'Carhartt Overalls', 'Wieland Beer' billboard signs on roof, large columns with globe lights on top in between. El Camino Real bell near corner. Building extant 2019 with added third story. [G810 OF-056] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Mission
Market near 3rd
View northeast across Market to 660 Market St (Realty Building, built 1907, demolished 1923). Army recruitment effort with soldier standing behind podium with large Victrola phonograph, tank vehicle with signs: 'The Dominant Tractor Built by C.L. Best Gas Traction Co., San Leandro, Cal.', 'Tracklayer Best 75', 'Enlist Today & Help California to furnish 3000 men in 30 days for the Duration of the War.' In April, 1917 the C.L. Best Co. gave the Army an armored prototype of one of its Tracklayer line of farm tractors for use in recruitment. Signs on Realty Building for Lyon & Hoag Real Estate office, North Pacific Steamship Co., The Waldorf, A.J. Henry Notary Public. The Ocularium Henry Kahn & Co., Quarg's Bar, Pioneer Assay Office. Crocker Building at right. [SS-198] [G810 SS-198] (GGNRA/B
South of Market
Post & Montgomery
View northwest across intersection to Masonic Temple on corner of Montgomery and Post (with tower completed 1868). Union Pacific offices on ground floor. [G57 SFR-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
3rd near Mission
View northwest across 3rd to Colorado House rooming house on west side of block at 114 3rd Street toward Mission Street. The Gem barber shop, J. J. Bolger men's furnishings 110 3rd, Sunset Cafe. A.W. Caro, Woolens. M.A. Gunst Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), southwest corner of Mission and 3rd, built 1907. Aronson Building at right on northwest corner of Mission.
South of Market
Mason near Eddy
View south on Mason toward Eddy. Robin Hood Burlesque Theatre at right, Club Mason and Ambassador Hotel at Eddy corner beyond. Cow Girl Round Up at left. Polo's, Bay Meadows Hotel and bar at left. The Bay Meadows Hotel building and Burgeroo hamburger stand have since been demolished. Market Street in distance. [Mr. Nash - Merriman & Sons]
Tenderloin
3rd & Natoma
View north on 3rd Street. Peerless Theatre at left showing 'Ridin the Wind', M.A. Gunst Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), built 1907, with large painted sign for Neustadter's Overalls and Work Shirts. Aronson Building, Call Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Hearst Examiner Building in distance. [Peerless Theatre 1925 Third Street View]
South of Market
18th & South Van Ness
View northeast across South Van Ness at 18th Street. Market Street Railway 35-line streetcar #269, passing St. Charles Barbershop. The corner building still stands, but most of the east side of this block has been demolished.(2019). Billboard for defeat of Prop. 1, controversial 'Ham and Eggs' pension proposal, defeated in 1939. [0269-35-06 SB ON SOUTH VAN NESS CA 1939]
Mission
Washington & Fillmore
View northwest across Washington from Fillmore Municipal Railway Cable Car #523 with ad for St. Francis Hotel Mural Room. Buildings in view extant 2021.
Pacific Heights
Mission & 18th
View north to approaching SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 14-Line #960. Redlicks (later Thrift Town) Frank Newman Co., Lachman Furniture. Mission Furniture Exchange, El Pocho, Mission Realty Co. on right. See also wnp27.50116. Same original image as wnp27.3612.
Mission
Washington & Fillmore
View east on Washington toward Fillmore. SF Muni Washington Jackson Cable Car #520 with ad for Hilo Hattie with Harry Owens Orchestra at the St. Francis Hotel stopped at Fillmore while 22-line Muni streetcar with wings livery passes. New Fillmore Grocery on right.
Pacific Heights
1st near Market
View north on 1st toward Market. Municipal Railway (Muni) 3-line Streetcar #665. (Post-merger renumbered from Market Street Railway #265). Shell Building in background, Sheldon Building (demolished 1985) on right.
Financial District