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Automotive Electricians at 1198 Hampshire Street, west side of block near 24th Street. These structures, which appear to be from the 19th Century; the peaked-roof structure perhaps a small stable with hay loft above, have been demolished. The building at right, 1196 Hampshire, built 1912, is still extant.
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2951 24th Street, southwest corner of 24th and Alabama. Currently a bakery (2020), the building dates to 1875. To the right is Pastime Pool & Billiards.
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2969 24th Street. Heavily renovated over the years, the building was built it 1885. The sidewalk terrazzo still exists.
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2411 24th Street. View south across 24th to Auto Supplies and Home Appliances store near Vermont Street, built 1918. Stands in 2020 without the sign or obvious retail space.
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2987 24th Street. Expert Haircutting and 24th Street Novelty Store, including a soda fountain, below residential apartments.
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Symon Machine Works at 2122-2124 Bryant Street near 19th Street, on west side of block. Concrete-clad industrial building, built 1950, with decorative arched doorway and corrugated steel rollup door. American West Laundry at left.
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Parked in front of this residence on 22nd Street is a truck advertising Potrero Auto Service.
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685 Florida Street near 19th Street, on east side of block. The Paris Art Company manufactured floor and table lamps. This modest industrial structure, probably built in the late 19th Century, has since been demolished and a multiunit residence built in 2018.
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2730 23rd Street. Delicatessen on 23rd Street at Hampshire Street.
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2720 23rd Street. An employee hoses down the front of Potrero Tire Service on 23rd Street between Hampshire Street and Potrero Avenue.
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View northwest across intersection to Pacific School Office Supply Building at 2182 Bryant Street, a 2-story timber-frame, unreinforced masonry industrial warehouse building, built circa 1902 (architect Clinton Day).
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2531 24th Street. Jack's Club, J. and E Restaurant and Florence's Cafe on 24th Street. J and E survives as a Chinese restaurant, and Jack's Club is still in business, albeit a few doors down from this location.
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2525 24th Street. L. Cambou's French Cleaners, owned and operated by Louise and Leon Cambou, below residential units and next to Jack's Club on 24th Street.
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2543 24th Street. Pete & Frank, partially owned and operated by Frank J. Dena--a buyer for the Union ide Co. in 1930, then a barber in 1934 and finally a liquor merchant in 1940. This business most likely sold the liquor.
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View south across 24th Street between San Bruno Avenue and Utah. Teddy Wong Hand Laundry & Cleaners next to the USC Smoke Shop and L. Cambou Cleaners. Buildings still stand 2020 with in modified form.
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