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Garage under construction [Excavation for SF's huge underground garage is shown underway in this photo taken in 1941. A network of 170 huge steel I-beams was installed to support pavements of the four surrounding streets as the dig progressed. The construction job required a year and a half.]
Downtown / Union Square
View north to approaching SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 14-Line #960. Redlicks (later Thrift Town) Frank Newman Co., Lachman Furniture. Mission Furniture Exchange, El Pocho, Mission Realty Co. on right. See also wnp27.50116. [SF Muni SFMR #960 - 14-Line]
Mission
View northeast toward the Flood Mansion and Fairmont Hotel
Lower Nob Hill
View east on Geary, 200ft west of Van Ness. Large work crew removing old Geary Street cable car tracks. Hotel Martinet,and future home of Tommy's Joynt, on right. Hotel Richelieu at center across Geary. [dpwbook4 dpw608]
Cathedral Hill
View west across and empty lot for City Hall being excavated by steam shovel and horse team toward the intersection of Van Ness and McAllister. Hotel St. James at center. St. Paulus Church in the distance at right[Excavating for City Hall dpwbook5 dpw1435]
Civic Center
View of south side of Mission street near 7th. Hotel Gordon at left, A. Galet Glass company, Streetcar passing by.[Demolishing 1119 Mission St dpwbook5 dpw1437]
South of Market
View north on 7th Street from Folsom [dpwbook8 dpw1886]
South of Market
6th N Howard [dpwbook8 dpw1889] Corner of 6th and Natoma Streets.
South of Market
View north on Stockton from Bush toward Pine showing landscaping and repaving on street after cmpletion of the Stockton Tunnel. Hotel Victoria at 590 Bush at right, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building up the hill. [dpwbook12 dpw2375]
Nob Hill
View West on Bryant toward 6th Street, showing brick paved street and streetcar tracks. Empire Planing Mill at right. Bryant Hotel, 500 6th Street, in the background left, New Southern Hotel background right. [dpwbook14 dpw2764]
South of Market
View East on Bryant between 4th and 5th Street showing brick paved street, streetcar tracks, and a Market Street Railway (MSRy) 27-line streetcar in the distance. California Mill Company and R.B. Moore Mill and Lumber Company at right. Hotel Utah (4th & Bryant, extant in 2021) is visible in the distance at center.[dpwbook14 dpw2765]
South of Market
Elevated view easterly toward toward Market from Kearny & Geary showing streetcar and automobile traffic. Palace Hotel at top. (same spot 4 views)[dpwbook17 dpw3488]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view easterly toward toward Market from Kearny & Geary showing streetcar traffic and Municipal Railway (Muni)C-line streetcar #63 turning from Geary onto Market. Palace Hotel at top. (same spot 4 views) [dpwbook17 dpw3489]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view easterly toward toward Market from Kearny & Geary showing streetcar traffic and Municipal Railway (Muni)C-line streetcar #63 turning from Geary onto Market. Palace Hotel at top. Crowds of People loading onto Market Street Railway streetcars at bottom. (same spot 4 views)[dpwbook17 dpw3491]
Downtown / Union Square
View northeasterly on Market between Kearny and Montgomery showing a line of waiting streetcars, Palace Hotel, Balboa Building in the distance at 2nd Street. [Market E from Kearny 5:30] [dpwbook17 dpw3499]
Downtown / Union Square