Business

Contains 470 photos

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Market near Pine

View north across Market to early office buildings during reconstruction period after 1906 catastrophe. Boyd Block at left. At center, Sherwood (later Bourn) Building 320 Market (At street level, The Sazerac bar 302 Market, 306-308 Columbian Woolen Mills wholesale merchant tailor, 310 Sylvan Selig clothes, 316 Pacific Tank Co. National Wood Pipe Co, 322 Paul Seiler Electrical Works, 326-328 Toledo Computing Scale Co., 330-332 D. Levin trunks bags suitcases cutlery, 334-336 Frank F. Wear High Grade Specialties Hobart Electrical Mfg. Co. ; On second floor, Union Iron Works, Bethlehem Steel, Culver Co. Lumbermen; 3rd Floor Loop Lumber Co. Another building under construction at right. Plank sidewalk

1908 Financial District

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Union Square

View west. St. Francis Hotel, First Congregational Church spire and Dewey Monument

1904 Downtown

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3rd & Jessie

Elevated view southwest from roof of Hearst Building toward Mission Street, the Aronson Building, Winchester Hotel, and the west side of 3rd between Mission and Jessie.

1920 Downtown

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Emporium

Interior Rotunda, dome, balcony with clock.

1955 Downtown

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Davis near Washington

View northwest across intersection in Produce District to Levy & Zentner Co., Sunrise Produce Company. Boy poses by car.

1963 Northern Waterfront

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Market & O'Farrell

View southeast across Market to Call Building / Central Tower, Examiner Building, Monadnock Building, Palace Hotel, Metropolis Bank Building. Morris Plan in remodeled Kamm Building, Carl Wilke Cafeteria.

1961 Downtown

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Chinatown Funeral

Funeral procession on Jackson Street, looking north, from Jackson and Powell. Cable car tracks in the foreground.

1950 Nob Hill

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Montgomery & Jackson

View looking north on Montgomery. Varni's Roaring Twenties Restaurant

1958 North Beach

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Mission & 22nd

View north from center of Mission to Liggett's Drug Store, Hale Bros Department Store New Mission theater, New Mission Market on left. New Rialto Theatre on right across from New Mission with '2 Big Features Today' banner in front. El Capitan Cafeteria, American Trust Company Bank, later Wells Fargo.

1932 Mission

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Union Square

Elevated view looking southeast across Union Square from Post & Powell Streets.

1935 Downtown

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Market & California

Looking east towards Ferry Building, morning commuters walking up Market Street. Southern Pacific Building in background. Traffic signal tower at right.

1925 Financial District

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Sacramento & Grant

View north across intersection to Nanking Fook Woh & Co., 701 Grant Ave., still standing in 2022 as Bank of America branch.

1909 Chinatown

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7th near Howard

Auto Stages lined up on the east side of 7th Street, near the corner of Howard. The Blindcraft Building, 1097 Howard built 1924, and the Edwardian apartments next to it on 7th Street still stand. (2019)

1925 South of Market

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12th & Kissling

California Baking Co. at 12th St and Kissling.

1922 South of Market

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New Montgomery & Jessie

San Francisco Call newspaper staff gatheringoutside SF Call building for picnic outing, Palace Hotel at right.

1929 South of Market