Castro & Market
[Opening day Twin Peaks Tunnel July 1917] crowd watching city engineer O'Shaughnessy speaking for the Twin Peaks Tunnel opening to pedestrians
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California & Sansome
Accident of #17 cable car collided with second California Street cable car; bystanders and police officers; Fireman's Fund Insurance Building at 401 California Street on SW corner in background.
Financial District
S F Bay
Boats filled with sailors being towed to ship in front of Yerba Buena Island
SF Bay
Train Ferryboat Solano
The train ferry Solano (1879-1930) departing her Port Costa slip with a passenger train for her last trip across the Carquinez Strait to Benicia. Farewell crowds and the press fill her deck. The Solano made her last trip on the same day the Benicia-Martinez Railroad Bridge opened. [2051-53]
Outside SF
3rd & Market
Elevated view southeast over Market to huge crowd of people overflowing intersection, possibly watching someone reading a large news scroll posted on the Hearst/Examiner Building at center. Monadnock building under construction at left. Palace Hotel far left. Spreckels/Call Building at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Telegraph Hill
Large crowd gathered on hillside to watch Great White Fleet enter bay. Huge Welcome sign is visible on the hilltop
Telegraph Hill
Fox Theatre
Lats week of June, 1930, the Fox's First Anniversary Celebration. Line of people for Will Rogers 'So This is London.' MGM Lion Truck parked in front.
Civic Center
Civic Center
Military parade on Grove Street; City Hall in background
Civic Center
Bush near Gough
View north from backyard garden of house at southeast corner of Bush and Gough to Trinity Episcopal Church; procession of clergy along Bush with line of well-dressed spectators; fine carriage pulled by horses parked in front. Built 1893 of Colusa sandstone. A. Page Brown architect. Merged with St. Peter's Episcopal Church in 2014 to become Trinity & St. Peter's. San Francisco Landmark #65.
Cathedral Hill
Colma
Unknown boxing match with big crowd around ring
GGIE
Golden Gate International Exposition, View east of crowd in front of Lakes of the Nations; California Building in background. Cantilever section Bay Bridge at extreme right. [General view from the towers of the east]
Treasure Island
20th & Michigan
Elevated view northwest to thousands of war workers gathered for presentation from stage with banner 'KGO-Blue'; dignitaries on stage; United Iron Works personnel. Bethlehem Steel administrative building in the background center, later redeveloped as Restoration Hardware in 2022.
Central Waterfront
Great Highway & Balboa
Crowd of people gathered around for the Jack Loreen Buried Alive attraction. View north to the Cliff House and Sutro Heights. Ocean Beach Pavilion to the right.
Sutro Heights
FDR visit
Civic Center; people waiting for FDR; view from Civic Auditorium
Civic Center
FDR visit
Civic Center crowd watching FDR motorcade on Grove near Larkin; view from Civic Auditorium
Civic Center