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View southwest across intersection to 2800 Mission Street. Before construction of the 24th & Mission Bart Station, this site was home to Pat's Coffee Shop, Save-On Yardage, Golden State Linoleum, Sun Vacuum Stores (2806 Mission). Eastbound Muni 35-Line #13? at far right, in front of 1 and 3 story buildings that still stand in 2023..
Mission
Por Boy Drive-In. Large angled plate glass, neon striping, chromed double doors, and Acme Beer. What's not to love about the long-gone Por-Boy Drive-In, which stood on the southwest corner of South Van Ness Avenue at Adair Street.
Mission
Al's Service, run by Albert Belingheri at 4401 Mission Street, southeast corner of Mission and Avalon, featured Chevron gasoline.
Excelsior
Set of two flats at 2331 Post Street. Probably originally looked like its neighbor at left. Both buildings have been demolished. Apartment building on right, 2345 Post, was built in 1925 and is still extant.
Lower Pacific Heights
Shell Station, 3598 Balboa Street on the NE corner of 37th Avenue and Balboa. Advertisement sign for the Shell News on KRON-TV at center. The Soda Barn is advertised at right. (Today the site is occupied by an apartment building with ground floor commercial storefronts.)
Richmond Outer
454 23rd Avenue. 23rd Ave near Geary. A four-unit apartment house is now on this lot.
Richmond Outer
This home at 462 35th Ave, between Balboa and Cabrillo has been replaced by a two unit building built in 1987.
Richmond Outer
450 24th Ave, single family home. This home has been demolished and the address is now part of the schoolyard for St. Monica School.
Richmond Outer
418 39th Ave, between Clement and Geary. This home has been replaced by 3 houses built in 1981.
Richmond Outer
The Theodore School of Music at 1666 Union Street was an accordion school in the late 1950s, much like its architecture would imply. The building, built in 1950, still exists, though the music-themed embellishments are largely gone. The building on the right has been demolished and replaced.
Union Street
280 Grand View Avenue, built in 1908 between 22nd and Alvarado Streets, was demolished for an apartment building in 2003. Its mirror image at 276 Grand View still stands.
Upper Market
Harbor Fisheries, 2936 Hyde Street Pier. Part of gantry for old Golden Gate ferry slip at left. Sign read SAUSALITO.
Fishermans Wharf
View north across Jefferson to Sal and Dom's Fish Grotto, bait shop (400 Jefferson, Dominic and Salvatore Strazzullo, owners). California Shell Fish Co., Mobilgas fuel storage tanks.
Fishermans Wharf
471 23rd Ave, single family home; six-unit building now occupies this lot.
Richmond Outer
371 25th Ave, Craftsman home, replaced by apartments.
Richmond Outer