Nikita Khrushchev visit
Crowd awaits Khrushchev at Geneva and Bayshore
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Nikita Khrushchev visit
Waiting for arrival of Khrushchev
Outside SF
Nikita Khrushchev visit
Crowd along Bayshore Blvd at Geneva watching the motorcade.
Visitacion Valley
Nikita Khrushchev visit
Elevated view northeast to motorcade with police escort
Visitacion Valley
Nikita Khrushchev visit
Elevated view east to motorcade with police escort
Outside SF
Palace Hotel Lobby
Large crowd the lobby of the Palace Hotel at dinner for Soviet Premier Khrushchev
South of Market
President Johnson Visit
U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson at podium, addressing a crowd in Washington Square.
North Beach
President Johnson Visit
Crowd in Washington Square during a speech by U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Benjamin Franklin statue.
North Beach
President Johnson Visit
Crowd climbing on Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square during a speech by U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson
North Beach
President Johnson Visit
Crowd climbing on Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square during a speech by U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson
North Beach
31st Ave & Judah
View southeast. Opening of the Sunset Tunnel and Muni N-Judah line. Bunting, '1' sign, and 'Old Timer's Car' banner decorate streetcar stopped on Judah. This was the lead car in the parade, with Mayor James Rolph as its motorman, headed to the inaugural ceremonies at the western terminus of the new line. Automobiles line the street surrounding it. People standing in street and on sandy hillside. Homes on 30th Avenue in left background, side of a home on 31st Avenue in right background. See also wnp27.0493
Sunset Outer
Embarcadero
Soldiers on Embarcadero; Waterfront Strike 1934
Financial District
Incinerator Demolition
15th and De Haro, View southwest toward the demolition of the Mission Creek incinerator. The 204 foot incinerator, built 1897, was demolished with 24 charges of dynamite. The case of champagne supposedly entombed in the cornerstone was not found. Brick buildings at 15th and Rhode Island in background. smokestack chimney
Showplace Square
Market near 2nd
Los Angeles Motorcycle Police on Parade. View east on Market near 2nd Street, Ferry Building, Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building in the distance. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 8-line streetcar #108 at right.
Financial District
Powell & Market
View south to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 near turntable, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes." On left Owl Drug in Flood Building.
Downtown / Union Square