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Market near Douglass
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Market near Douglass

View west on Market from Douglass, after covering Twin Peaks Tunnel, prior to extension of Market Street. Crop of wnp36.02419 [dpwbook25 dpw6169]

Eureka Valley
Masonic & Roosevelt
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Masonic & Roosevelt

View Southwest from Masonic and Levant on the line of the future Roosevelt Way. (Houses at center are the current 414 and 408 Roosevelt Way) [From Masonic to Pluto ( now Roosevelt) [dpwbook27 dpw6526]

Buena Vista
Roosevelt & Loma Vista
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Roosevelt & Loma Vista

View north from Roosevelt near Loma Vista Terrace, showing the proposed route for Roosevelt's connection to Masonic. 415 Roosevelt (then 41 Pluto) at right. 15 Loma Vista (then also on Pluto) at left. 330 Roosevelt (then 1665 Masonic), with dormer in the background right at the intersection of Levant. Pluto Street (renamed for a short time to Plato Street) to the right of this view became Roosevelt. To the left, it became Loam Vista Terrace. [From Pluto to Masonic & States dpwbook27 dpw6525]

Buena Vista
Roosevelt Way
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Roosevelt Way

View North on Roosevelt (then Pluto) near Loma Vista [Pluto, 200' north of Clifford dpwboo27 dpw6524]

Buena Vista
Roosevelt from Masonic
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Roosevelt from Masonic

View North on Roosevelt Way ( then Park Hill Avenue) from Masonic, Corona Heights visible on right. U.S. Mail truck in street. small house at right, the former 239 Roosevelt, demolished in 2016[dpwbook27 dpw6528]

Buena Vista
Revere near 3rd
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Revere near 3rd

View west on Revere from about 3rd Street. Mt. St. Joseph's orphanage at the top of the hill. Dpwbook26 dpwXXX]

Silver Terrace
Roosevelt & Levant
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Roosevelt & Levant

View North on Masonic Street (later Roosevelt Way) and Levant. Corona Heights in the background. 330 Roosevelt Way (then 1665 Masonic), at left, still stands in 2021. [dpwbook27 dpw6526]

Buena Vista
Roosevelt & Park Hill Ave
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Roosevelt & Park Hill Ave

View East from the intersection of Park Hill, Roosevelt, and 15th Street. Roosevelt has not been extended through yet. [East from Park Hill and 15th Street] [dpwbook27 dpw6530]

Corona Heights
Buena Vista near 15th
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Buena Vista near 15th

East side of Buena Vista Avenue, 100 feet north of 15th Street, Roosevelt Way project, this is now the intersection of Roosevelt and Buena Vista Terrace, house at left still stands at 121-23 Buena Vista Terrace [dpwbook27 dpw6532]

Buena Vista
24th & Hoffman
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24th & Hoffman

View northwest across 24th to Municipal Railway (Muni) 11-Line #814 with wings livery at 24th and Hoffman Streets Terminal.

Upper Market
Market near Taylor
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Market near Taylor

View northeast across Market to 32-Line #444 on Market Street west bound approaching Taylor. Track reconstruction in progress, to convert the street tracks from 4-track to 2-track. Loew's Warfield theater with elaborate marquee, Dean Building, Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Esquire Theater, Flood Building in distance. (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #144 renumbered #444 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #144.)

South of Market
24th & Hoffman
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24th & Hoffman

View northwest across 24th to Municipal Railway (Muni) 11-Line #814 with wings livery at 24th and Hoffman Streets Terminal.

Noe Valley
Powell & California
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Powell & California

View east on California toward Powell. University Club at left, 650 California Street / Hartford Building (architect George Storz) under construction

Nob Hill
California & Mason
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California & Mason

View east on California from Mason, Hartford Building at 650 California under construction. (Completed in 1964, it was the tallest building in California at the time.) Fairmont Hotel at left, Mark Hopkins at right.

Nob Hill
Union Square
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Union Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across Geary to St. Francis Hotel with north wing under construction, Temporary St. Francis Hotel, Dewey Monument in Union Square after earthquake [Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco]

Downtown / Union Square