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1906 Earthquake and Fire, Northwest corner of Pine and Steiner. Three story brick telephone building. Street kitchen. St. Dominic's Church in ruins visible at left. The building was later enlarged, but still stands in 2018. [S.F- West Office - After Fire - Exterior] [205]
Lower Pacific Heights
View north on Stockton near Bush to Muni F-line streetcar. Colonial Hotel, McAlpin Apartments on left. Hotel Victoria, built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel) in background right.
Downtown / Union Square
Vacant lot at northeast corner. Wooden viaduct.
Downtown / Union Square
H. H. Beckmann's Groceries. Telephone pole with switchbox. (Pacific Telephone)
View south on Central Avenue across Fulton. Buena Vista Park and Hayes Street streetcar in distance.
Western Addition
View southeast from Fulton Street across the intersection with Broderick in the background. 1370 Fulton, 650 Broderick, 642 Broderick visible in the background.
Panhandle
View west to intersection. Gambrel roof residence is extant in 2018 at 1821 Irving Street ('The Taco Shop').
Sunset Inner
View west to sand dunes and new telephone poles, Pacific Ocean in distance.
Sunset Outer
View northerly from South Side Playground (aka Father Crowley Playground), on the site of the current Hall of Justice. Pacific Bell baseball players in uniform, lined up at unidentified ball field south of Market. Towers of Humboldt Bank Building and Call Building visible in distance. (handball courts in background, see wnp27.0592)
South of Market
Pacific Telephone Business Office Team posed at South Side Playground (Father Crowley Playground), Columbia Square in background, view north. [228 - S.F. Bus. Off. Baseball Team. Telco League 1920(?)]
South of Market
Railroad cars and rails stacked up, industrial area with telephone poles. East side of Potrero Hill?
Wooden warehouses in industrial area, line of telephone poles.
Country road, line of telephone poles.
View northwest on Sickles from Huron, Telephone linemen on pole in front of a row of Victorian residences. the two homes at center 102 Sickles and 120 Sickles still stand in 2020. (Pacific Telephone Inventory)
Outer Mission
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across New Montgomery to 1906 earthquake ruins, refugees gathered around makeshift table in street. Ruins of 4 story Pacific Telephone Building behind them (site of later Pacific Telephone skyscraper). Ruins of Rialto Building at right. Very faintly in background left are Call Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building.
South of Market