Construction

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Seals Stadium
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Seals Stadium

View north across 16th Street from Franklin Square. Graded and seeded playing field with Grandstand in early stages of construction. Lindgren & Swinerton, Inc. photo.

Potrero Hill
Seals Stadium
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Seals Stadium

Construction. Grandstand, Raniier Brewery at left. Lindgren & Swinerton, Inc. photo.

Potrero Hill
Seals Stadium
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Seals Stadium

Construction. Offices, northwest from 16th St. Lindgren & Swinerton, Inc. photo.

Potrero Hill
Seals Stadium
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Seals Stadium

View north across 16th Street toward graded and seeded playing field, before Grandstand was constructed. Lindgren & Swinerton, Inc. photo.

Potrero Hill
Winston & Buckingham
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Winston & Buckingham

Looking east at the construction of the Stonestown shopping center mall from one of the Stonestown Apartment Towers.

Lake Merced
Great Highway
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Great Highway

Ocean Beach looking north, probably near foot Taraval St. [Great Highway '28. P-9]

Sunset Outer
California & Kearny
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California & Kearny

View east down California to California Street Cable Car #53 about to cross Kearny. Southern Pacific Building (later One Market) in distance with sign atop. At far left, Home Insurance Company Building (around this time, Fireman's Fund) completed 1951 and demolished in 1983. Empty lot with pedestrian safety structure at 550 California, site of Occidental Life Insurance Co. Building, completed 1960. Financial Center Building (1927) downhill from construction site. Scaffolding around Kohl Building. Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on side.

Downtown
Ingleside Terraces
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Ingleside Terraces

Construction. horses, Merced Heights in background

Ingleside Terraces
Fleishhacker Pool
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Fleishhacker Pool

Fleishhacker Pool under construction. View looking north along length of pool. Man standing next to Paige sedan with 1923 license plate. Taken for an auto advertisement. (Work just beginning on bathhouse on west side of pool.)

Sunset Outer
View of 44 Montgomery
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View of 44 Montgomery

View east from Sir Francis Drake Hotel. W.J. Sloane and White House stores below. Construction of high-rise Wells Fargo Building (44 Montgomery) in distance. Russ, Mills Tower, Shell, Standard Oil, Equitable, Hunter-Dulin, Shreve and Hobart Buildings.

Downtown
Downtown View
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Downtown View

View from St. Francis Elevator, at left center, 44 Montgomery, 575 Market (under construction) and McKesson Building at Market and Post rise above Hunter-Dulin and Hobart Buildings. At Right, the Central Tower (formerly the Call Buidling) and Pacific Telephone line up. Bay Bridge in the distance.

Downtown
Jackson near Drumm
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Jackson near Drumm

View northwest to demolition of Produce District. Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill, Embarcadero Freeway in background. Valentino Bianchi Body Shop at 655 Davis visible in background. National Ice and Cold Storage (Union & Battery) in back of freeway.

Northern Waterfront
Twin Peaks Tunnel
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Twin Peaks Tunnel

Elevated viwe east from east portal of Twin Peaks Tunnel at Castro Street, with Municipal Railway (MUNI) K-line #1144 about to enter tunnel. Trinity Methodist Church at Market and Noe Street (built 1929, destroyed by fire October 11,1981) and Pacific Telephone Building in background.

Castro
O'Farrell & Cyril Magnin
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O'Farrell & Cyril Magnin

Elevated view east to Hotel Manx, Macy's at O'Farrell and Stockton at center. Wells Fargo building under construction in background. Central Tower (Call Building), Whittell Building and Equitable Building also visible.

Downtown
Ferry Building From Bay
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Ferry Building From Bay

View west from water of reconstruction on north wing of the Ferry Building after a large fire in April 1955. Southern pacific Building with S-P sign on roof. Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop.

Waterfront