Post near Grant
Earthquake damage to White House department store
Downtown / Union SquareEvent
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Post near Grant
Earthquake damage to White House department store; looking west
Downtown / Union Square
Post near Grant
Earthquake damage to White House department store; View east down Post to Jewelers Building on left. Mechanics Institute, Crocker Building, Balboa Building in distance on right. Woman carries newspaper with huge quake headline. Demolition in progress on southwest corner of Kearny and Post, at far right. (AS)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Montgomery
View north across Market down Montgomery to 62nd Infantry, Parade to honor Belgians, World War I. Mills Building, Union Trust / Nevada National Bank / Wells Fargo Building in background. Banner strung across Montgomery.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Montgomery
View northeast across Market to 62nd Infantry, Parade to honor Belgians, World War 1. Marching band behind soldiers on horseback. In background, Union Trust / Nevada National Bank / Wells Fargo Building, Hobart Building, Heineman Building, Patrick & Co. Stationery, Flatiron Building, Postal Telegraph Building, Board of Trade Building, Fife Building, Ferry Building.
Financial District
Haight near Steiner
Midtown Theatre (Originally the Riviera). 562 Haight. Firefighters climbing facade on ladder from truck, hoses in street. Fire caused closing of the theatre, which later reopened as a church.
Lower Haight
Bernal Cut
Ground-breaking for construction of Bernal Ave, on Southern Pacific Line that ran through the Bernal Cut. Chronicle article from following day says event took place at foot of St Marys Ave. [A-1545 11-15-28 Bernal Cut Ground Breaking]
Fairmount
Church & Market
View north at the flooded intersection of Market and Church, streetcars lined up on all sides of the flood. The block at center across the intersection is the site of the Safeway Supermarket parking lot today (2019) [Freak Cloudburst Which Deluged San Francisco with almost an inch of rain in less than an hour Acme Newspictures]
Mission Dolores
Kearny & Post
View west to White House, Davidson & Co. Lavishly decorated retail store on northwest corner Kearny and Post, with patriotic decorations for Grand Army of the Republic G.A.R, painting of Washington and Lafayette at center. Young boys posing in front, crowd looking in store window. [White House Department Store at the corner Kearny & Post Sts. S.F. decorated in honor of G.A.R. Aug 86]
Downtown / Union Square
Sigmund Stern Grove
Children folk dancing on the lawn with audience on the slopes behind.
Parkside
Stern Grove
View of audience seated on benches and at tables on the lawn.
Parkside
Stern Grove
Ballerinas performing in front of audience
Parkside
Stern Grove
Audience watching performers on stage
Parkside
Stern Grove
Audience watching performers on stage
Parkside
Stern Grove
Large crowd at Stern Grove concert, including some serving in military.
Parkside