Market Street
President LBJ campaigns in SF; women sitting outside windows
Neon
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Mission & 22nd
Boy Scouts parade; cub scouts; army truck towing Nike-Ajax missile on trailer; Mission Theater
Mission
Mission & 22nd
Boy Scouts parade; cub scouts, Mission Theater
Mission
Columbus & Lombard
View northerly on Columbus toward the intersection of Lombard. Municipal Railway (Muni) F-line streetcars #41 and #23 about to pass each other. Al's Seafood seafood stand at right. Entella Hotel and Lido Cafe at left. Del Monte Cannery in distance.
North Beach
Market near 6th
View east on Market to approaching N-Line streetcar, Loew's Warfield Theatre, Mechanics Savings Bank Building (as Bank of Italy), Marion Davies Theater, Flood Building, Humboldt Bank Building with Bank of America sign on top, St. Francis Theater at right. [Market E of 6th dpwbook48 dpwA2506]
South of Market
Cesar Chavez & Alabama
Northeast corner of Cesar Chavez (then Army Street) & Alabama. The building on the corner (Pete's Clams) was demolished or moved for Army Street widening. The buildings down the block were moved back on their lots and still stand in 2022. [Army St. north side - Alabama St. East][dpwbookSPECIMP16 dpwA4774]
Mission
Cesar Chavez near Harrison
View east on Cesar Chavez (then Army Street) from Harrison, after widening. Pete's Club on the corner of Army & Alabama at left [Army east of Harrison dpwbookSPECIMP16 dpwA6174]
Mission
Fisherman's Wharf
Joe DiMaggio Grotto; camera movement
Fishermans Wharf
Waller near Octavia
View north across Waller to small First Baptist Chapel at 52 Waller Street, near the First Baptist Church at the corner of Waller & Octavia. Originally built in 1886 as a fire department storehouse for Engine Company No. 19, the building still stands in 2022, and has been renovated (glass block on sides replaced with opening windows and doorway inset further, removal of neon sign). The Victorian residence to the right has been moved or demolished.
Mint Hill
4th near Howard
240 4th Street. The Place of New Beginnings, Salvation Army's Harbor Light center on 4th Street prior to construction of the Yerba Buena Square Shopping Center.
South of Market
Grant & Bush
400 Grant Avenue, built 1913. View northeast across intersection of Grant Ave and Bush Street before the Chinatown Gate was built. Visible in the frame is the Grant Cafe, Western States Importing Company, and Eddie Pond's Kubla Kahn Theater Restaurant, promoted as San Francisco's Most Exciting Chinese Theater Restaurant in 1946. Astoria Hotel sign at left. Lucky Lager and Coca Cola delivery trucks. Within the Chinatown Historic District on the National Register.
Chinatown
Embarcadero near Mission
136 - 142 Embarcadero, built 1907, housed the Emerson Drug Co., Sea Cliff Cafe, Naval Uniforms store, and prominent Bromo-Seltzer sign, flanked by two hotels. All three structures are extant, though altered. Embarcadero Cafe at left, 144 Embarcadero.
Financial District
Adair & South Van Ness
Por Boy Drive-In. Large angled plate glass, neon striping, chromed double doors, and Acme Beer. What's not to love about the long-gone Por-Boy Drive-In, which stood on the southwest corner of South Van Ness Avenue at Adair Street.
Mission
Mission & 22nd
View northeast across intersection to the American Trust Company bank (which merged with Wells Fargo in 1960)and The White Cow cigar store on Mission Street. Since modified, this building still exists in the same location as a Wells Fargo bank. Birdcage traffic signal.
Mission
Union & Gough
View north to northeast corner, 1686 Union, Plaza Drugs.
Union Street