Landmark

Contains 2516 photos

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Embarcadero near Main

View northwest across Embarcadero to abandoned Sailors' Home (formerly a U.S. Marine Hospital) at right at corner of Spear & Harrison. Pacific Pipe Co. 451 Main. Sherman Clay warehouse at right, known as Hathaway Warehouse, 400 Spear St. still stands in 2021, converted to housing. Hobart Building in distance left. [Block bounded by Main-Spear-Harrison and The Embarcadero] [dpwbook29 dpw7023] (The U.S.Marine Hospital opened in 1853 but later moved to the Presidio in 1875. This large building then became a sailor's boarding home operated by the Ladies' Seaman's Friend Society.)

1921 Rincon Hill

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Folsom & 18th

View north on Folsom from 18th Street, Pioneer Trunk Factory - C. A. Malm and Co.(1902, Architect Thomas J. Welsh, later known as Pioneer Building). H. Friedrichs furniture factory, later Allied Box & Excelsior Co., 2169 Folsom, built 1902, still standing, converted to housing. On left, New Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works. New paving and streetcar tracks [dpwbook30 dpw7312]

1921 Mission

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7th near King

View North on 7th Street between Berry and King Street. Workers digging trench and paving stones piled up. Baker & Hamilton Building, built 1904, SF Landmark 193, at 7th and Townsend in the background. [7th & Berry St. looking north to Townsend St.] [dpwbook34 dpw9192]

1924 Showplace Square

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Market near 19th

Market (then Falcon) near 19th (then Mono). Picket fence in front of Berendt Joost House, 104 Falcon Ave. (Now 3224 Market Street, the Miller-Joost house is SFLandmark no. 79) [Joost House Willow NW corner Falcon & Mono Sts.] [dpwbook32 dpw8520]

1923 Eureka Valley

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Cliff House

Cliff House, looking southwest from Point Lobos Ave. [7912 6-23-22 Cliff House] [dpwbook31 dpw7912] Street is newly widened and paved.

1922 Sutro Heights

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Point Lobos Ave

[Great Highway] [dpwbook31 dpw7913] Point Lobos Ave. below Sutro Heights looking north to Cliff House

1922 Sutro Heights

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Market near Spear

View east from middle of Market Street toward Spear Street. Approaching Municipal Railway (Muni) C-Line streetcar, Ferry Building, Hotel Terminal. Construction on the roadway. Buildings on left demolished for Embarcadero Center.[dpwbook33 dpw8866]

1923 Financial District

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Market near Front

View northeast on Market from Front toward Davis Street to Labor Day Parade with marching band. Flags and banners strung over Market Street. PG&E, Matson Lines and Southern Pacific Buildings at far right. On left, Boyd Block, Bourn (until 1924 Sherwood) Building 320 Market, and Hansford Building 268 Market(1907). Ferry Building (with 1925 sign on tower), Fife Building in background.[Labor Day Parade dpwbook35 dpw9964]

1925 Financial District

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Union Square

View southeast from Post Street to Stockton & Geary. Sunbathers on lawn, people on benches. Center of the picture shows the city of Paris Dept. Store, I. Magnin on right, Whittell building on left.

1962 Downtown / Union Square

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Fairmont Hotel

Front of Hotel from California & Mason. Ernie Heckshire performance.

1951 Nob Hill

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Jones & Market

Where Jones, Market, McAllister meet.

1962 Tenderloin

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Geneva Car House

San Jose and Geneva B-line SFMR Streetcar #176. Scrap Run, final run of this car. Will be brought to car house and dismantled.

1959 Cayuga

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Market & McAllister

View east on McAllister across Market Street. Showing Market Street Railway (MSRy) 5-line tracks turning onto McAllister. Hibernia Bank visible at right. [dpwbook40 dpwA526]

1927 Tenderloin

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Market & Clayton

View north down Market to Miller-Joost House, center left, and Clayton Street/Ashbury Heights high pressure water tank [Market N from Clayton (Joost Home) dpwbook37 dpwA508] 33-Line streetcar at switchback in street lower right.

1927 Clarendon Heights

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Pt. Lobos at Cliff House

Looking north on newly-paved Point Lobos Ave (formerly Cliff Road) towards the Cliff House and storefronts lining the street north of restaurant. [Cliff House dpwbook41 dpwA758]

1928 Sutro Heights