FDR visit
Reviewing the fleet; two warships
SF BayEvent
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FDR visit
FDR in car waiting to go on board USS Houston to review the fleet. Oakland Outer Harbor Terminal
Outside SF
FDR visit
Civic Center; huge crowd at Grove and Polk after passage of FDR motorcade. View from Civic Auditorium
Civic Center
FDR visit
President Franklin Roosevelt approaching toll plaza in motorcade after crossing Golden Gate Bridge. Round House restaurant in background.
Presidio
FDR visit
Reviewing the fleet; view of ship's bow with sailors at attention; Bay Bridge and skyline in background
SF Bay
Portola Festival promo
Great white fleet, to show San Francisco was important and recovered.
Ocean Beach
Olympic Club NY Day Beach dip. [San Francisco, CA., Beach, Bathing on New Year's Day]
Richmond Outer
Woodward's Gardens
View east toward Balloon ascension at Woodward's Gardens in the Mission District. Large crowd in street watching. View down 14th Street, with two sections of Woodward's Gardens amusement park on either side. Guerrero Street crosses in the foreground. Two story row houses on the northwest corner of 14th and Valencia. The photo was taken from a high bluff that once stood at 14th and Dolores (a remnant of Mint Hill)
Mission
Market near 4th
Elevated view southwest across Market to parade.Pacific Building, with S. N. Wood & Co, clothing store on corner. Right, the States Restaurant, which changed its name during WWI from The Hof Brau.
Downtown / Union Square
19th near Collingwood
Eureka Valley Playground dedication? Crowd of people
Castro
Fillmore Chutes
High Diver John A. Mangels, professionally known as John Powers, doing a high dive act at the Fillmore Chutes. After 8 years of performing his act, Mangels was injured on October 3, 1909, the last day of the season. He suffered a broken spine when strong winds blew him into the side of the small dive tank. The 24 year-old Mangels died from the injury at St. Mary's Hospital on October 5, 1909. [JA Mangles (sic) at Chutes SF Sept 1909][A. Lipman SF]
Western Addition
Valencia Hotel Collapse
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Valencia Street between 18th and 19th. (a widely reproduced image)
Mission
Mills Field Aerial
View north over Mills Field, San Bruno 3pm (future SF International Airport, SFO) showing a huge traffic jam on Bayshore Highway during US Army Air Corp War Maneuvers demonstration. South San Francisco, San Bruno Mountain, SF in the distance. [Mills Field SF, CAL. - (04-32-j-15)(4-19-30-3p)(12-2000)] (15th Photo Air Corps - US Army)
Outside SF
3rd & Market
Elevated view north on Kearny from across Market, Parade passing the intersection with large American flag. Flannery Building on left with C.H. Strub Dentist and J. Edlin Merchant Tailor signage, Chronicle Building (with large clock over entry), Maskey's Candies sign on Maskey Building, Hearst Examiner Building on right. Boys Week banners strung over intersection. [25,000 SF School Boys Celebrate Boys' Week. Boys marched May 1 in honor of national Boys' Week. Photo shows Old Glory being carried by school boys in the line of march.]
South of Market
Presidio
Groundbreaking for New Letterman Army Medical Center on the Presidio. [Mrs. Gingles chats with ladies of the platform guests prior to the ceremony. L to R: Mrs. Gordon Letterman; Mrs. Carleton Mathewson; Mrs. Gingles; and Mrs. Thomas K Turnage.]