Mission & Grace
The Washing Machine Parts Co., 1375 Mission Street at Grace, near 10th Street. It is a masonry structure built in 1925, seen here clad in brick.
South of MarketBusiness
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Howard & 1st
The Drug Sundries Company, 501 Howard Street at 1st Street. Cardoza Co. Bookbinders is to the right, at 511 Howard. All structures seen here have been demolished.
South of Market
Howard near 3rd
743 Howard Street near 3rd Street. The Del Monte Meat Company was founded in San Francisco in 1926 and is still thriving. This location was demolished, and the site is now the Children's Creativity Carousel and Yerba Buena Center.
South of Market
12th Street & Harrison
Gilmore Air Conditioning Service, 12th Street and Harrison looking southeast. In background is the Rainier Brewery at Bryant near 16th. The elevated Central Freeway would be built right behind this building along 13th Street. The 12th Street railroad tracks have been removed and the easement is gone. This building was demolished in 2004.
South of Market
Taraval & 35th Ave
2501-2505 Taraval Street at 35th Avenue. Multi use building of storefronts with flats above, built in 1950. Noriega Cleaners is in one of the storefronts in 1951. Note the undeveloped lot to the right.
Parkside
Divisadero near Geary
1540 Divisadero Street. Leon's Fine Foods and Monakan Furniture are in storefronts below residential apartments on the east side of Divisadero. All are now demolished.
Lower Pacific Heights
6th near Brannan
Construction in progress at 634 6th Street
Mission Bay
Bryant near Jeff Adachi Way
Identified as 873 Bryant Street, address is now 869-875A Bryant. South side, between 6th and 7th Streets, built 1950. Concrete and steel industrial structure has been modified in recent years to include a variety of businesses. A twin structure was built to the left of this one.
South of Market
Taraval & 31st Ave
Currently, this site at 2050 Taraval Street features a 1977 apartment building, but in 1951 it was the site of the Cortopassi Brothers Richfield Service Station.
Parkside
Geary & Broderick
2300 Geary Boulevard at Broderick Street. Multi-unit apartment house with storefront at corner. B-line streetcar tracks in front.
Lower Pacific Heights
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.)
Hampshire & 19th
Tom's Grocery at 701 Hampshire Street and 19th Street. An apartment house, built 1960, now stands in its place. The three Queen Anne homes, shown behind on 19th Street, built 1895, are still extant.
Mission
Howard & 12th
Western Ceramic Supply Co. at 1601 Howard Street and 12th Street. Two-story light industrial building, built 1906. (Still extant 2023)
South of Market
Taraval & 17th Ave
648 Taraval at 17th Avenue, on the northeast corner, was built in 1950. It features a retail space on the ground floor with a residential unit above. L-Taraval streetcar tracks in foreground.
West Portal
California & Laurel
The Feed Bag, at 3401 California Street and Laurel Street, one of fourteen local restaurants and bars owned by Harry Meharry; later known as Miz Brown's Feed Bag. Friendly waitresses served old-fashioned fare here until it shuttered in 2004.
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park