Powell & Market
Baldwin Hotel Fire. Sign for Louvre restaurant. Emporium and Red Front stores on south side of Market Street.
DowntownFiremen
Contains 51 photos
Columbus Near Washington
View northwest on Columbus Ave (then Montgomery Ave). Banner 'California The Land of Orange Bowers', Men in uniform, firemen pulling decorated wagons (one with a 'We Destroy To Save' motto on it, a common motto of 19th century hook and ladder companies), crowd lining street. Buildings decorated, flags strung across street. Tower of St. Francis of Assisi Church in distance. See also wnp15.1391, 15.590. Possibly Admission Day Parade, 1890.
Chinatown
Carmel & Clayton
View northeast to Kissel promotional auto covered in painted text (with 'High Gear' painted on radiator), at Carmel and Clayton. Engine Company No. 40 firehouse and Mt. Olympus in background. Firemen posing with kids. In May, 1923, as a promotion, Kissel arranged for one of its Model 55 cars to be driven from Merced to Yosemite Valley with its transmission locked in high gear. In the car were Carl Borgen, driver, L.D. Whitehurst, San Francisco sales manager, and Charles H. Holdson, pilot. This photo is from a similar test in late July, 1923 when the same car climbed Twin Peaks in low gear, driven by Borgen with Phil Sheridan, automotive editor of The Call as a passenger. Whitehurst walked beside the car during the test.
Twin Peaks
Market & Grant
View north across Market to American Trust Company, Fire engine, Union Trust Bank
Downtown
Oak near Gough
Fire Dispatch Headquarters. 229 Oak Street, built 1913
Lower Haight
3rd & Cargo
A large fire destroyed four meat packing plants at 3rd Street and Cargo (Arthur Avenue) in Butchertown on June 15, 1925. This fire led to the construction of a fire station (engine co. 25) at 3305 Third Street in 1927. Two hogs were killed in the fire.
Bayview
Oak near Gough
Fire Dispatch Headquarters. 229 Oak Street, built 1913
Lower Haight
Hayes near Polk
Fire Dispatch Yeadquarters. Commercial Fire Dispatch was a private service that placed fire alarms in buildings and notifed the Fire Department of alarms in those buildings.
Civic Center
Fire Trucks in the Rain
Pillar marking neighborhood entrance in foreground
Market near 3rd
Elevated view of fire at 660 Market Street, which destroyed a three story building. Numerous fire trucksand a maze of firehoses in Market Street. Photograph taken from roof of Palace Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
McAllister near Webster
Firehouse of Engine Company No. 14, Capt. William J. Kenealey. This firehouse was in service from 1884 until 1961. After demolition, the facade was preserved and street address renumbered from 1051 McAllister to 1047. Shenson's Kosher Meat Market, 1053 McAllister.
Fillmore
Market Street Fire
View northeast on Market between Kearny and Montgomery. Firefighters and crowd assemble on Market Street. Fire at 660 Market Street.
Downtown / Union Square
Old Mint
View southeast to fire truck on Mint Street behind Old U.S. Mint, Chronicle Building visible across Mission Street
South of Market
Fireboat David Scannell
Firefighters posed around automobile with Fireboat 'David Scannell' in background. The Scannell was reactivated in 1921 after being out of service for 2 years. Riverboat 'Petaluma' at left.
Rincon Hill
Bayshore Factory Fire
Aerial view west to 4 alarm fire at Kunst Bros. Paint Factory 419 Bayshore, near Cortland. Apparel City at center.
Bernal Heights