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8th & Balboa
View east across intersection of 8th and Balboa. MUNI 31-Line streetcar #976 collision with 21-Line streetcar #116, when brakes failed. [0976-31-08 24 July 1947 ACCIDENT]
Richmond Inner
3rd & Market
Elevated view southeast across Market toward Third. Hearst and Call Buildings at right. Fire Department demonstration of high pressure salt water system shooting columns of water 200 feet in the air.
Downtown / Union Square
SS Ohioan Shipwreck
SS Ohioan aground at Point Lobos, just north of Sutro Baths. Ship ran aground on October 7, 1936. Wave catch basin for Sutro Baths at bottom.
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Civic Center
Elevated view north on Polk toward McAllister. Shriners parade down Polk Street in front of City Hall. Crowds of people and temporary grandstands on both sides of street.
Civic Center
Pennsylvania near 25th
View north on Pennsylvania. Gas tank next to three houses that still stand.Circles indicate workmen on the tank. [ World's largest natural gas holder recently completed. Holds 17,000,000 cubic feet of gas. 300 foot diameter and 379 feet high.]
Potrero Hill
Miramar & Wildwood
People standing street watching construction underway at 598 Miramar, The Chronicle House, in Westwood Park. Sign reads 'Buy a Nelson Bros. Well Built Bungalow.' Built over 11 weeks in early 1922. 598 Miramar was the grand prize in the SF Chronicle newspaper's 'Prize Campaign', a subscription drive in which 'nominees' competed for 'votes' awarded by new newspaper subscriptions. The winner was Russell Wilson of Palo Alto.
Westwood Park
Foerster Street Slide
[An entire side of Mt. Davidson slipped away from the peak yesterday and buried at least one person...] Landslide and collapsed houses. View south on Foerster from near Los Palmos.
Miraloma Park
Foerster Street Slide
[An entire side of Mt. Davidson slipped away from the peak yesterday and buried at least one person...] Landslide and collapsed houses. View north on Foerster.
Miraloma Park
Wanda & Onondaga
[A white youth holding a long knife confronts a Negro on the street near Balboa High School...] News photo of teens confronting each other on Onondaga Street.
Cayuga
Market near 5th
Elevated view northeast Market Street toward fire at Telenews Theatre. Esquire Theatre next door. Large hook and ladder fire truck. Crowds of people watching. Entire block now demolished for Hallidie Plaza and 5th Street north.
Downtown / Union Square
View N from Twin Peaks
Telephoto View north from Twin Peaks showing fog over Cole Valley and Richmond District. Spires of St. Ignatius Church and tower of Lone Mountain College for Women (now part of USF) peek through the fog bank ['Fog' Dec 11, 1962]
Clarendon Heights
McLaren Park
View east from about the current John Shelley Drive above the site of the McLaren Upper Reservoir toward the undeveloped ridge of McLaren Park with Bayview Hill in the distance. A large crowd assembled for possibly a Boy Scouts tree planting event. Boys in Mission baseball uniforms in the foreground. [photo printed in SF Examiner May 9 1970]
McLaren Park
South San Francisco
View southeast on Grand Avenue toward Magnolia Avenue. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel
Outside SF
Market near 6th
View southwest from center of Market toward 6th Street. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to the crowd. Warfield Theatre, showing Ivanhoe, at right. United Artists, Embassy, and Paramount Theatres in the background.
Tenderloin