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Excavations undermined a wall of the Phillips & Van Orden Co. printing plant at 511 Howard, causing it to collapse and fill the excavation with debris and large rolls of paper intended for telephone directories. A worker, August Vallat, was trapped underneath the steam shovel at lower right for several hours, but was rescued with only slight injuries. [511 Howard St. dpwbook35 dpw9982]
South of Market
Excavations undermined a wall of the Phillips & Van Orden Co. printing plant at 511 Howard, causing it to collapse and fill the excavation with debris and large rolls of paper intended for telephone directories. A worker, August Vallat, was trapped underneath a steam shovel for several hours, but was rescued with only slight injuries. [511 Howard St.dpwbook35 dpw9983]
South of Market
[Harding Golf Links Boulevard Club House] [dpwbook35 dpw10014] View north
Lakeshore
View southeast across Market near Stockton showing the streetcar safety zone in the middle of the street. Most of the buildings on the south side of Market in this view have been demolished. Portola Theatre (showing Mary Pickford in Little Annie Rooney), Humboldt Bank Building, California Theatre at right. Call/Spreckels, Hearst Examiner and Lesser Buildings in the distance. [Market at Stockton Sts] [dpwbook35 dpw10056]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view east on Berry toward 3rd Street, now the site of SF Giants Ballpark. Pope & Talbot Lumber (planing mill and lumber yard, 859 3rd Street at King) Piers 42 and 44 in the background. [Berry St. E of 3rd dpwbook35 dpw10066]
Mission Bay
View west on Folsom from 6th Street. The Park Hotel, 1040 Folsom, across from Columbia Square in distance at right.(building still stands in 2021) [Folsom St. bet 6th & 7th St.] [dpwbook36 dpw10157]
South of Market
View north from center of Kearny from near Washington St. towards slopes of Telegraph Hill. Sentinel Building (also Columbus Tower), International Hotel at right center. [Kearny St Looking North from Jackson St.] [dpwbook36 dpw10162]
Chinatown
View east on Folsom from 6th Street showing newly paved and regraded Folsom Street with streetcar tracks in the center. Ferry Sheet Metal Works 982 Folsom at left. Edwardian apartment house (977 Folsom) at right still stands in 2021. [Folsom St. Looking East from 6th St.] [dpwbook36 dpw10166]
South of Market
View West on Alemany at Geneva. Apartment building still stands at 796 Geneva Ave., though moved down Geneva (to the right) and another floor added below. A gas station sits at the corner today. Geneva Nursery once occupied the rest of this block.[Proposed Alemany Blvd West from Geneva Ave.] [dpwbook36 dpw10176]
Cayuga
View westerly from Naglee Avenue toward the proposed route of Alemany Boulevard along the former Ocean Shore Railway right-of-way. H. Plath Nursery is visible near Farragut Avenue. The hill at right has been completely flattened. [Proposed Alemany Blvd west from Naglee Ave.] [dpwbook36 dpw10180]
Outer Mission
View North. San Jose Avenue Bridge over Southern Pacific tracks near Mt. Vernon. This bridge was west of the current San Jose Avenue Bridge and is now in the middle of I280 freeway. [San Jose Bridge dpwbook36 dpw10188]
[Proposed Alemany Blvd, Sagamore St. west from Sickles Avenue dpwbook36 dpw10203]
Oceanview
[Lyon St Pacific & Broadway] [dpwbook36 dpw10230] View SE to water tank. Presido wall in foreground
Presidio
View north on Faxon between Lakeview and Grafton. Farragut School at Holloway at center. Mt. Davidson in the distance.[dpwbook36 dpw10248]
Ingleside
View southeast from Post Street to Stockton & Geary. Sunbathers on lawn, people on benches. Center of the picture shows the city of Paris Dept. Store, I. Magnin on right, Whittell building on left.
Downtown / Union Square