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GGIE
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GGIE

GGIE (Golden Gate International Exposition) from an arriving ferryboat. Tower of the Sun, Elephant Towers, Key System Buses. Administration building .

Treasure Island
GGIE
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GGIE

Treasure Garden pool at GGIE (Golden Gate International Exposition).on Treasure Island. Bay Bridge in Background. Yerba Buena Island.

Treasure Island
Point Lobos Ave
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Point Lobos Ave

Looking south from Cliff House down towards Playland and Ocean Beach

Sutro Heights
Cliff House
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Cliff House

View south on Point Lobos Ave towards Ocean Beach. Lurline Pier

Sutro Heights
Sky Tram
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Sky Tram

The Sky Tram (Skytram) ran from the terrace level behind the Cliff House to Point Lobos from 1955-1966. View here is from inside the quarry tunnel through Point Lobos looking towards Fisherman's Rock and Seal Rocks.

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Candlestick Park
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Candlestick Park

View northwesterly from upper deck, Right after it opened.

Candlestick Point
Candlestick Park
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Candlestick Park

View southerly from lower deck, Right after it opened.

Candlestick Point
California & Grant
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California & Grant

View east toward Kearny. Covered sidewalk on the left is because the Hartford Insurance building (650 California) is under construction. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building (1954, demolished 1991), Home Insurance building with Colonial tower (1951, demolished 1983), Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel). On right, The International Building and the Clunie Building at Montgomery with Bank of America ad painted on west side. St. Mary's Square parking garage entrance. Bay Bridge and Southern Pacific Building in distance.

Chinatown
GGIE
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GGIE

Golden Gate International Exposition, Japanese Pavilion at the Golden Gate Int'l Exposition (GGIE) 1939-1940 Wold's Fair on Treasure Island.

Treasure Island
Playland at the Beach
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Playland at the Beach

View east to Flying Scooter ride. Houses along the east side of the 800 block of 48th Avenue are in the background.

Richmond Outer
Playland
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Playland

Commercial Slide. [Amusement Area at Ocean Beach.] Fulton Street near Great Highway.

Richmond Outer
Sutro Baths
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Sutro Baths

[Sutro's Museum and Ice Skating Rink, Point Lobos] Viewed from Merrie Way.

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Fox Theatre Demolition
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Fox Theatre Demolition

View northwest across Market to last stages of demolition. Same demolition company as Sutro Baths. Homer Aron's wrecking company. Took 6 months to tear it down. ~February-August.

Civic Center
Eureka Ferryboat
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Eureka Ferryboat

Ferryboat Eureka, in Southern Pacific markings, passing cantilever portion of Bay Bridge.

SF Bay
Southern Pacific Depot
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Southern Pacific Depot

View southwest across 3rd & Townsend intersection to Southern Pacific Passenger Depot.

South Beach