Montgomery & Bush
De Gaulle Visit. Front of parade, confetti & streamers. Street lined with crowds.Mills Building on right.
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SFO Airport
De Gaulle Visit. DeGaulle walking in front of TWA plane.
Ninth & Market
French President Charles De Gaulle Visit. Elevated view south to motorcade on Ninth Street. People lining streets waving French flags. Shasta Hardware, The Mart Restaurant, Mart Stationers. Hotel Whitcomb parking lot, Blackstone Apartments.
South of Market
Market & New Montgomery
De Gaulle Visit. Protest placard 'Il faut que l France cesse les explosions nucleaires' (France must stop nuclear explosions.)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & 3rd
De Gaulle Visit. French flag hanging over Market Sgt. As parade flaked by motorcycles passes under
Downtown / Union Square
Frederick & Belvedere
View west on Frederick Street toward Belvedere. A large crowd of spectators watch the SF Fire Department at an apparent fire at 360 Frederick. Of note is the 50-foot fire department ladder propped against the building. The building still stands in 2021 in modified form.
Cole Valley
Foerster St Slide
View of Foerster Slide from uphill on Los Palmos Dr. Houses from left: 740, 744, 746 Foerster. On far side: 785 Foerster. Massive mudslide wrecked several houses. Mt Davidson above undeveloped, some grading. ['Moving Mountain of Mud' Mashes Frisco Homes '] Mt. Davidson in background; landslide on slopes of Mt. Davidson.
Miraloma Park
City Hall
Demonstrators being dragged by police from Grand Staircase at City Hall. Demonstrators were protesting anti-Communist hearings being carried out by House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC. ['Exit via Grand Staircase; Police drag and push demonstrators down the grand staircase of the San Francisco City Hall']
Civic Center
Mendocino County
Examiner Christmas Tree, loading for delivery to San Francisco's Twin Peaks.
Outside SF
San Francisco Kids
Christmas. Kids at food drive.
Kearny & Market
Elevated view northwest across Market over large crowd in Kearny, Market & Geary intersection. The tablet commemorated singer Luisa Tetrazzini's Christmas Eve 1910 performance near Lotta's Fountain, before an estimated two to three-hundred thousand San Franciscans. Lotta's Fountain at right. Flannery Building at left. El Camino Real bell to left of decorated railing around ceremony. [Unveiling Tetrazzini Tablet SF CAL.]
South of Market
Haight & Masonic
View East on Haight. Crowd of Hippies marching in street for unknown event.
Haight Ashbury
Haight & Clayton
View West on Haight. Crowds of people. 'The streets are for the people' protest
Haight Ashbury
San Jose near Ocean
14-Line Streetcar #1583 lost control of brakes at San Jose and Shakespeare and crashed at San Jose and Ocean. [Runaway streetcar comes to stop at bottom of San Francisco Hill only after smashing through steel street post, snapping off wooden telephone pole, knifing front porch from a home and smashing two automobiles. Fast-thinking motorman, John H. Paterson, San Francisco, as he discovered the broken brake mechanism, shouted to a passing motorist to race ahead and clear the street, and to the car's only other occupant, a conductorette, to lie down on the floor. She was uninjured, he, only slightly.
Mission Terrace
Golden Gate Park
[President Taft breaking ground for the PPIE. 1911 by G.H. Dresser 226 Powell, S.F.] Polo fields. Taft with shovelful of dirt about to be put in ceremonial box.
Golden Gate Park