Contains 76 photos
[Diamond Jubilee Parade dpwbook35 dpw9971]View east across Civic Center Plaza to group of costumed marchers. Pantages (later Orpheum) Theater under construction at rear right. Arco de Brillantes, illuminated decorative archway. Old Main Library at left.
Civic Center
[Shrine convention dpwbook46 dpwA3459] Auto full of showgirls from Peggy O'Neill's Warfield Follies and giant head depicting bandleader Rube Wolf. Reviewing stand on Polk Street in background.
Civic Center
View southeast across intersection to Murat Shriners of Indianapolis, Indiana parading. In background, Offenbacher's Men's Wear 369 Market, Barney's Buffet, Bimbo's 365 Club (in original 365 Market location), Wally's Gift Shop, Allied's Donut Store, military uniform stores, Lincoln Hotel. Background left, Ferry Building, Southern Pacific, Matson and PG&E Buildings. Banners strung over street. Birdcage Traffic Signal. Signs for 'Victory Bars', 'Military Gifts," and "Welcome AAONMS" (Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine) sign. Birdcage Traffic Signal.
Financial District
Portola Festival Parade - Improved Order of Red Men, fraternal organization, Indian Head float. View toward south side of Market Street, people on rooftops, Eastern Outfitting, S.N. Wood & Co., Pacific Furniture, Weinstein's on south side of Market
Tenderloin
[Weidner Photo Portola Parade Oct 24,1913] Western float with cowboys, Indians, and miners. Covered wagon atop the parade float.
[133 Weidner Photo. Portola Festival parade Oct 21, 1909, San Francisco, Cal.] View north from street to parade of riders dressed as conquistadors. Riders dressed as samurai in background in front of prize winning cherry blossom float. Old Mission Dolores behind. Swedish Lutheran Ebenezer Church in background.
Mission Dolores
Castro Parlor drill team Native Daughters of the Golden West group poses for a photo.
Civic Center
Princess from the Portola Festival, Oct. 1913. (The 1913 Portola Festival mixed the themes, putting more emphasis on the 400th Anniversary of Balboa discovering the Pacific in 1513, but kept the name Portola Festival and some of the trappings of prior festivals.) (JF)
View north on Laguna at Grove, passing the Gantner & Mattern textile factory on the southwest corner. Single Gantner & Mattern parade float 'We Knit to Fit' with ladies and Stanford and Cal football players, building sign reads 'Underwear, Sweaters, Bathing & Athletic Suits'; horses are wearing long underwear; Float possibly from 1909 Portola Festival parade.
Hayes Valley
Mayor James Rolph and Police Chief Daniel O'Brien in Native American outfits. [City's Chiefs are Real Chiefs Now. Mayor James Rolph and Chief of Police Daniel O'Brien were initiated today, May 29 into the Yakima Indian Tribe. Photo shows l to r, Owl Child, Chief Sluskin, Big Wave (Rolph), Black Eagle (O'Brien), and Listening Coyote]
Civic Center
Admission Day Parade, Parade float Mission San Francisco de Solano. Sonoma NSGW No. 111 (Native Sons of the Golden West). Children on float with model of Sonoma Mission (Mission San Francisco de Solano) with painted backdrop. Soldiers, one with rifle on shoulder, march alongside, man in priest's robes at lower left. Crowd on bleachers in background. [Examiner 9-10-25]
Market, Post, and Montgomery. Knights Templar Parade passing Masonic Temple, decorated with electric lights and masonic insignia.
Financial District
Elevated view northeast of unidentified parade heading west on Market Street during Diamond Jubilee (then 75 years) of California statehood. Multiple parades were held over several days. People watch from windows and rooftops. From left, New Orleans Coffee Parlor and Kewell Fishing Tackle, Board of Trade Building (with Emmons Draying Co., Burke's Paints, Warner Bros. Radio) Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop, Ferry Building with 1925 on tower and "Welcome To California For The Diamond Jubilee" sign.
Financial District
View north on 3rd St. to man dressed as highlander in kilt crossing street. Preparations for Columbus Day Parade. Mutual Savings Bank Building on Market in background, at left Aronson Building with Rochester Big & Tall store.
South of Market
Baton twirler and bandsmen. Preparations for Columbus Day Parade. Parking lot at the present-day site of the Museum of Modern Art. Building in the center background is on the site of the parking garage behind the museum.
South of Market