Drug Store

Contains 142 photos

Castro & 18th
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Castro & 18th

View northwest across Castro to Market Street Railway (MSRy) Castro Cable Car Line #4 at terminus. Wulzen's Drugs with Dr. R.D. Crittenden dentist on 2nd floor, Castro Creamery, Eureka Bakery in background.

Castro
Market near Beale
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Market near Beale

View northeast across Market to Hansford Building 268 Market (1908)(with Henry's Fashion Restaurant, Hallawell Seed Co., Glenwood Building and Fife Building (1909, demolished 1966) at right. D-Line streetcar at far right. All buildings in view demolished. [Market St. looking north from point between Fremont & Beale Sts. (Sic)] [dpwbook32 dpw8594]

Financial District
Market near Front
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Market near Front

View northeast across Market to large buildings on north side of Market, between Front and Davis. Boyd Block at left, northeast corner Front and Market (with Bob Donahue cigars 366 Market, Dignan Drug Co. General Adding Machine Exchange 354 Market, Warner Bros. Radio, Breeders and Fanciers Exchange). Right of center, Sherwood (later Bourn) Building 320 Market. Oceanic Building, 2 Pine Street (Originally Tillman & Bendel Building. George A. Applegarth architect, 5 stories 1908, 3 stories added 1918) in background right.[Market St. looking north toward Davis St.][dpwbook32 dpw8595]

Financial District
Sacramento & Market
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Sacramento & Market

View north from center of Market to Cowell Building, Bernstein's Fish Grotto, Brundage Drugs. Ferry Building in background. [Cowell Bldg. Sacramento & Embarcadero] [dpwbook33 dpw8770]

Financial District
Fillmore & Union
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Fillmore & Union

View northwest across intersection to eastbound Muni-E line #369, Market Street Railway (MSRy) counterbalance car #627 waiting to enter intersection. B&L Drugs on corner.

Union Street
Market & 1st
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Market & 1st

Elevated view west to Muni 7-line #471 with wings livery; (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #171 renumbered #471 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #171.) Elevated traffic control tower at left. Owl Drug Co., Allied Sales Co. Surplus, Flatiron Building, Hobart Building in background.

Financial District
Cortland & Wool
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Cortland & Wool

Arrow Pharmacy at 439 Cortland Avenue, built 1910. When it was sold by owner Michael Anthony Callagy, Jr. in 1996, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Steve Rubenstein penned Ode to a Pharmacy's Passing - For seniors, S.F. druggist's closing is a bitter pill, in memoriam.

Bernal Heights
34th Ave & Vicente
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34th Ave & Vicente

2248 Vicente,northeast corner of 34th and Vicente. Landson Pharmacy, under deco-influenced apartment building built 1950, just 1 year old in this view.

Parkside
Irving & 21st Ave
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Irving & 21st Ave

Built in 1925, 2001 Irving Street at 21st Avenue, on the southwest corner, housed Roths Rexall Drugs in 1951. Although the building still stands, it has undergone extensive remodeling, including the demolition of the tower in 1993.

Sunset Outer
Judah & 46th Ave
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Judah & 46th Ave

Storefront with apartments above, built in 1935, at 4101 Judah Street and 46th Avenue. In 1951 it was the Sunset Village Shopping Center. Later a diner, it was purchased in 1971 and has since been Thanh Long, reportedly San Francisco's first Vietnamese restaurant.

Sunset Outer
Geary & Fillmore
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Geary & Fillmore

Elevated view northwest across intersection to Estes Kefauver, Democratic candidate for Vice-President, during his unsuccessful campaign for President, shaking hands. Owl Drugs, Lane's in background. [SF Examiner]

Western Addition
8th & Market
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8th & Market

View northeast across 8th near Market. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 26-line #845 at evening and Sunday 26-Line terminus. Orpheum Theatre with Owl Drug, Business Mens Assurance Co., Belle Haven City, David D. Bohannon, Marshall Square Building sign over Orpheum Building entrance in background. Empire Hotel at far right,t first of the rooftop bars.

South of Market
Market & New Montgomery
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Market & New Montgomery

[180. The Grand Hotel, New Montgomery street front] Elevated view southeast across intersection.

Downtown / Union Square
Grand Hotel
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Grand Hotel

Elevated view across Market southeast to corner of Market & New Montgomery

Downtown / Union Square
Old Civic Center
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Old Civic Center

Elevated view west from Murphy Building (Jones and Market) to McAllister St., Hall of Records, City Hall before erection of dome and rotunda, City Hall Avenue. Corner of Mechanics Pavilion at far upper left. Turkish Drug at far right. Detail from stereoview card with caption "343 New City Hall, San Francisco"

Tenderloin