Grant near Pine
Night view north on Grant towards Chinatown and California Street. Shanghai Low, Tai Chong & Co., Lamps of China, Sing Chong Co, Cathay Palace. Commercial slide.
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Market at Fulton
View across Market to south side between 7th and 8th, N-Judah Street car and 8-Market Trolley Coach. Grant Building, Odd Fellows Building, Cafeteria sign on former KSAN Building, Embassy Theatre (demolished 1990's), Strand Theatre (still there).
Civic Center
Market near 3rd
View southeast across Market toward 3rd Street at dusk. Owl Drug, Morris Plan Company in Kamm Building with modern facade, Carl Wilke Cafeteria, Progressive Optical, Central Tower (Call Building), and Examiner/Hearst Building.
Downtown / Union Square
7th near Stevenson
In front of the Greyhound Bus station, view north toward Market. Grant Building on right.
South of Market
Market near 6th
View east on Market between 5th & 6th, St. Francis Theatre (playing The Naked Runner) at right. Esquire Theatre at left. Kress Department Store, Emporium
Tenderloin
Market & Taylor
Crowd watching a parade; some holding American flags; in front of Golden Gate Theater; lots of people with cameras. Birdcage traffic signal.
Tenderloin
Sutter & Stockton
View northwest on Sutter toward Stockton. Collision between MSRy 4-line streetcar #222 and Muni F-line streetcar #31. One killed. Large crowd and fire engine. Dolan's bar. Page Boy maternity shop=, Dolan's bar on the future site of Sutter-Stockton Garage.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Jones
Guild (formerly Egyptian and Studio, later Pussycat) and Centre Theatres (formerly the Round-Up), Keno Kuisine Cantonese restaurant 1063 Market, Don's Beauty School.
Tenderloin
Granada Theatre
'Unsinkable Molly Brown'playing. Granada vertical sign moved from the old Paramount after it changed names. Mission and Ocean.
Mission Terrace
Transamerica Pyramid
Looking SE from Columbus near Filbert; Palace Theatre on right.
Russian Hill
Haight & Stanyan
Looking south showing Alex's Drive-in, Sutro Tower.
Haight Ashbury
9th Ave & Judah
View south on 9th Avenue from Judah. Municipal Railway (Muni) 6-line streetcar #142, making turn onto Judah. 9th Ave Liquors on corner
Sunset Inner
Grant near Sacramento
View north on Grant Avenue toward Sacramento. Market Street Railway (MSRy) Cable car #23 on Sacramento and Clay line crossing intersection. T. Iwata & Co., Postal Telegraph sign, Hung Far Low Noodles, Chop Stick restaurant, Chinese Village liquors, S. Takazawa & Co. art goods and kimonos.
Chinatown
Market & 3rd
Elevated view southwest across Market toward 3rd Street showing many Muni and Market St. Railway (MSRy) streetcars, mostly inbound. Monadnock Building (with Great Northern Railroad, Eureka Federal Savings & Loan, Meussdorffer Hats 675 Market, Pressler's Men's Clothing 687 Market), Hearst/Examiner Building, Call Building (with Owl Drugs), Kamm Building, Humboldt Bank Building in background. At right, signs for Florsheim Shoes and Hymans Leasing, Tascone's Coffee Shop. Lotta's Fountain. Among pedestrians are men and women in uniform. Two soldiers in Jeep at bottom, center. wnp32.0176 is tighter-cropped version of this image.
Downtown / Union Square
Fillmore near Ellis
View northeast across Fillmore to Market St. Railway (MSRy) 22-line #861. Zemon's Mens Wear 1360 Fillmore, Dick's Coffee Shop, Western Trimming Co. (1354 Fillmore). Steel arch over intersection. Banners strung across Fillmore, some with single star, some with rider and Wells Fargo building. Buildings demolished for Fillmore redevelopment project.
Western Addition