Grant & Pine
View east near 444 Grant to reception for General Tsai Ting-Kai (Cai Tingkai, 1892-1968). Flags and banners over street. Pacific Dry Goods Co., Hotel Washington.
ChinatownDecoration
Contains 237 photos
Geary & Kearny
Elevated view northwest across Market to World War I Buy Liberty Bonds display covering Lotta's Fountain, with soldier and sailor figures attached climbing rope ladder and El Camino Real Mission Bell. Chronicle Building at right with baseball scoreboard on facade (installed July, 1913). Buildings on west side of Kearny include Schmidt Building, Baldwin Building, Oscar Luning Building, Roullier Building with 'Orange Blossom' sign. In distance, Joy's Drugs at Kearny & Bush.
South of Market
Unknown Location
Examiner Christmas Tree, hauling.
Clarendon Heights
Twin Peaks
Night view of Examiner Christmas Tree at Christmas Tree Point
Clarendon Heights
Van Ness & Ellis
Don Lee Cadillac, St Mary's Cathedral, Packard's Showroom. Both buildings have radio towers on them. Packard & Buick were intense competitors, so Packard put up dummy transmitters for showmanship.
Tenderloin
Baker & Fell
Seasonal Christmas installation at Shell gas station on the southeast corner. (Current site of California Department of Motor Vehicles, DMV) Auto promotion for the Sterns-Knight 1928 model, so it is most likely the photo was taken at Xmas time, 1927. (JF) Oversize Toy Soldiers with Santa Claus.
Panhandle
Market & 7th
[66 C. Lind Photo] Portola Festival? Men in Parade on horseback dressed as Spanish conquistadors. American Theatre in background. Flags strung above street.
South of Market
Powell & Post
Union Square Christmas tree lit a night. Whittell Building, I. Magnin building (Nathan Dohrmann's)
Downtown / Union Square
5th & Market
View southwest from center of Market to postal Employees in parade on Market St. Evergreen boughs and California State flags strung over street. Probable Admission Day parade. David Hewes Building in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 3rd
Decorations for Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Looking west towards Twin Peaks [TEH767 T.E. Hecht]
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Grant
Publishing House of A.L. Bancroft and Company, 721 Market, building destroyed by fire April 30, 1886. Decorations in honor of the Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar. Swan The Painter. [TEH790 T.E. Hecht Market St. opp Grant Ave.]
South of Market
Civic Center
[Arco de Brilliantes (Sic) San Francisco 1925] View west to Diamond Jubilee's Arco de Brillantes, illuminated decorative archway. City Hall in background, Old Main Library at right.
Civic Center
Ferry Building
Night view of Ferry Building illuminated with Shriner symbol on clock tower
Financial District
Ferry Building
Night view of Ferry Building illuminated with PPIE 1915 symbol on clock tower
Financial District
Ferry Building
Night view of illumination of electric streamers across Market St.
Financial District