Civic Center
[8734] Fire Engines on Fulton Street at Civic Center. City Hall in background, Main Library at right.
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Contains 47 photos
Fell near Divisadero
View northeast across Fell to building fire with firefighter on ladder at 3rd story window and another watching from the street. This building still stands in 2023. Fell Boulevard Fruit & Vegetable Market, Piggly Wiggly. Queen Anne drug store building in distance at Divisadero corner built 1888-1889 as Theodore Green Apothecary, Samuel Newsom architect. It is San Francisco Landmark #182. [Fire- Fell & Divisadero 48030]
Panhandle
Howard & Harriet
1017 Howard, view south across Howard to fire dept. putting out 5 alarm fire at former Howard Street Methodist Episcopal Church, used as headquarters of S.F. Goodwill Industries since 1927; still standing; Goodwill Industries destroyed
South of Market
Unknown Location
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Fire pump/firemen; horse and wagon, Wood & Co. in ruins, fire approaching, Mahoney political sign
Clayton & Carl
View north toward a fire at 889 Clayton Street, between Carl and Parnassus [1 of 12 fires, at the latest report, that have caused danage exceeeding $100,000 here today (5/8) is shown being brought under control by 150 firemen and over a dozen pieces of equipment. This three-alarmer almost completely destroyed one three-story home and caused considerable damage to one on either side...]
Cole Valley
Fillmore & Fell
[Firemen ascending ladders in four-alarm blaze here in which four persons died, 17 were hurt, some 16 persons were carried to safety down ladders. 200 firemen fought the blaze.]
Lower Haight
19th Ave near Rivera
Chemical Engine Company Firehouse No. 12 - 2156 19th Avenue near Rivera [dpwbook5 dpw1408]
Golden Gate Heights
Fire at Howard & Harriet
5-alarm fire at the headquarters of Goodwill Industries, 1025 Howard St. in the former Howard Street Methodist Episcopal Church, southwest corner of Howard Street at Harriet. Apartment building at left still stands.
South of Market
Civic Center
View east from Civic Center Plaza to testing of high pressure hoses at Civic Center. Old Main Library (later Asian Art Museum) at left, portion of Lick Pioneer Monument at original location (Grove and Hyde) at far right. [dpwbook30 dpw7400]
Civic Center
Civic Center
View north from Civic Center Plaza to testing of high pressure hoses. Old Main Library (later Asian Art Museum) at center. [dpwbook30 dpw7401]
Civic Center
Bush & Sansome
As part of 17th commemoration of '06 fire, firefighters tested standpipes on the roof of the Standard Oil Building, then the tallest structure in San Francisco. The standpipes were connected to the High Pressure Auxiliary Water System built after the 1906 fire. They demonstrated that they could shoot water 400 feet, or 70 feet higher than the building.[Firefighters posing at Standard Oil Building dpwbook32 dpw8640]
Financial District
660 Market
Elevated view northwest across Market to fire at 660 Market (Realty Building), which started in the basement of the Waldorf Cafe. The building was demolished shortly thereafter. Its demolition had been planned before the fire to enable the building of a replacement by its owner, the Crocker Estate, and some tenants had already vacated earlier in 1923. The replacement at 660 Market, designed by Lewis Hobart, still stands in 2022 . This photo appeared on the page 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle for November 6, 1923 with the caption "Fighting one of SF's Biggest Fires in 17 Years." [Crocker Estate Album]
South of Market
660 Market
Elevated view northwest across Market to fire at 660 Market (Realty Building), which started in the basement of the Waldorf Cafe. The building was demolished shortly thereafter. Its demolition had been planned before the fire to enable the building of a replacement by its owner, the Crocker Estate, and some tenants had already vacated earlier in 1923. The replacement at 660 Market, designed by Lewis Hobart, still stands in 2022 . This photo appeared on the page 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle for November 6, 1923 with the caption "Fighting one of SF's Biggest Fires in 17 Years." Duplicate with different cropping wnp27.4530. [Crocker Estate Album]
South of Market
California near Leidesdorff
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east on California toward Sansome. Pumper truck in middle of California., Mutual Life Insurance Company Building (corner of Sansome) in flames.
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