Contains 322 photos
View northeast down Market to American Legion Parade. Army band in foreground. Street lamp poles decorated, banners hung above street. Golden Gate, Loew's Warfield theaters in background. Mayflower Restaurant, Dr. C. Campbell Dentist, Singer Sewing Center at left in San Cristina Building.
Tenderloin
View northeast across Market to Muni J-Line streetcar inbound. Elevated traffic control tower on right. Postal Telegraph, Tilden Sales and Board of Trade Buildings at left. Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building. Flag Banners across Street for Golden Gate International Exposition 1940. Mechanics Monument at left.
Financial District
View southeast caross intersection to westbound L-Line Muni Magic Carpet streetcar #1002 with wings livery. Market Street decorated for the Portola Festival. J.C. Penney store, Hale Bros., Emporium, Humboldt Bank Building with Bank of America sign on top, Central Tower (Call Building). Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
View East from inside car on Market. Roos Brothers store, Phelan Building, Muni bus #0408. Hartfield's. Mutual Savings Bank, Hobart and Cental Tower Buildings in background. Red, white and blue banners with rectangular pattern strung above street.
Downtown / Union Square
Looking west during flower festival
Downtown / Union Square
Looking East during flower festival. Union Square Cocktails.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across Market to Shriner's Parade, Roos Bros. store, California Redwood Industry float
Downtown / Union Square
View east to pedestrian overpass bridge, decorated Ferry Building with "Ferry to Exposition Key System" sign over entrance.
Financial District
View northeast across Market to Muni J-Line streetcar (another Muni streetcar with wings livery in distance). Gallenkamp's Shoes and Owl Drug Co. in Magee Building, Mutual Savings Bank building with Bank of America branch, Flannery Building with Dinty's Kitchen, Acme Beer sign and Painless Parker dentist, de Young Building with Florsheim, Hyman's Leasing and Peck-Judah ticket agency, 660 Market Building, Crocker Building, Hobart Building, Examiner Building. Banners strung across Market, possibly for military recruitment. Birdcage traffic signals. [3119 Market at 3rd]
South of Market
Elevated view south across Market to electrically lit facade. Originally built as San Francisco's temporary City Hall (see City Hall sign above main entry), and served as such from 1912 to 1915. Then became Hotel Whitcomb. [Wright, Rushforth & Cahill Architects]
Civic Center
Crowd of men and children waiting for news about the Boxer Rebellion outside Ning Yung Association, 23 Waverly Place. Yuen Fat & Co., Quong On Chong & Co. (23 Waverly in 1895 directory.[11659. Reading the war news--in Chinatown]
Chinatown
View east to welcome arch for Christian Endeavors convention. Call Building in background. Cable cars, horse drawn carriages, man sweeping street. The Sixteenth International Christian Endeavor Convention, held in San Francisco from July 7th to 12th, 1897. [5060 - Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. U.S.A.]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view north over crowd to dedication of Dewey Monument, view north across plaza, President Theodore Roosevelt. In background, buildings on Post Street, Temple Emanu-El, Pacific States Investor sign, Walkerley Building (at right).
Downtown / Union Square
View south across Market to float of the Berkeley Parlor #150 of Native Daughters of the Golden West in Admission Day parade.
South of Market
View south across Market St. to Admission Day Parade, people dressed as indians on a float with tepees and painted backdrop.
South of Market