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View up Kearny to Telegraph Hill past Fior d'italia restaurant. [It was in this district the Atherton graft investigators found the greatest number of house of prostitution...Patrolman Joe Murray, freed of bribery charges on an instructed verdict after Abel Ducayla, Atherton's star witness lost his nerve and refused to testify.]
North Beach
[Where Democrats will pick Presidential Nominee. View of the San Francisco Civic Auditorium where the democratic national convention will open June 28---It was erected at a cost of one million dollars and will seat from 10,000 to 15,000 persons...] Landscaped Civic Center with bear statue.
Civic Center
[Mrs. Helen Topini (left) of the Little Children's Aid, is shown assisting in the selection of thousands of shoes in a huge order made possible through the $13,555.69 received by The Examiner Christmas Cheer Fund from the St. Mary's-Santa Clara football receipts.] Two women and two small children.
[Main artery of the city from the south is Bayshore Boulevard, shown here looking north at the intersection with Third Street]
Candlestick Point
View north across the intersection of California and Hyde. Demonstration and protest with people Stopping California Street cable car from entering the Cal Cable barn. Future transit historian Phil Hoffman (with glasses and pipe) seated on the roof. [newscopy: San Franciscans take control of a cable car after the last run on the Hyde-O'Farrell cables before the vehicles were replaced by buses. Demonstrators pushed the car back a block before police broke it up and rescued the 'captured' crewmen.]
Nob Hill
Civic Center, Polk & McAllister. [Escorted by a guard of honor, the body of Governor James Rolph, Jr. , is carried for the last time past his office in the State Building] Flag-draped coffin on caisson pulled by horses.
Civic Center
Stonestown, Earthquake Damage at 235 Buckingham Way [Apartment House Windows Broken - Many windows were broken in this big apartment house in Stonestown today by the heaviest earthquake to hit the city in more than 30 years.]
Stonestown
General Strike - View North on Bayshore Boulevard at Third Street. (US101 freeway now covers the site)[Truckloads of produce rolled towards San Franciscans July 17, the first in several days, convoyed by State Highway Patrol Officers and SF Police. ]
Bret Harte
Auto parked near Christmas Tree on Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks
Christmas Tree on Twin Peaks (Christmas Tree seems to have been constructed. See wnp27.5558)
Twin Peaks
Raising Christmas Tree on Twin Peaks (Christmas Tree seems to have been constructed. See wnp27.5558)
Twin Peaks
Christmas archway leading up to Christmas Tree Point
Twin Peaks
Christmas Tree in front of McLaren Lodge [... the Christmas Tree which was lighted in front of the Park lodge yesterday in tribute to the veteran of the city's park service]
Golden Gate Park
Candlestick Park site from the former Bay shoreline, at what was formerly the end of Gilman Avenue, near Griffith. Land reclamation in progress before stadium construction. An unfilled section of Bay is visible on the left, and partially visible on the right are the remains of the Gilman Beach boathouse pier and a surrounding temporary lagoon that had yet to be filled.
Bret Harte
Elevated view east from center of Market between 2nd Street and Sutter. Cars parked in the middle of the street during Municipal Railway (Muni) Strike. Parking regulations were suspended to allow cars to park on unused streetcar tracks. The strike lasted from Sunday February 17 through Saturday February 23, 1952. From left, Patrick & Co. Stationers, Flatiron Building, Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building, Ferry Building, PG&E Building, Underwood (Typewriter Co.) Building at 525 Market St., California Notion & Toy Co, C. Barrango Mannequins 579 Market, Land Bros Trading Mart.
Financial District