Contains 1245 photos
View southwest from center of Market toward 7th Street. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to the people on the street. United Artists Theatre at left. Merrill's Drugs, Odd Fellows Building and Embassy Theatre in the background.
Tenderloin
Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel, possibly turning from San Mateo Avenue onto Linden?
Outside SF
View southeast on Grand Avenue between Maple and Linden. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel
Outside SF
View southeast on Grand Avenue passing City Hall. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel
Outside SF
View southwest from center of Market between 8th & 9th Street. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel. Hotel Whitcomb, Merchandise Mart at left, Fox Theatre in distance right.
Civic Center
Interior, President Harry Truman shaking the hand of Daniel Collins, founder of the San Francisco Chapter of the Urban League. Stevenson poster in the background. (see also wnp31.00143)
South of Market
Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson Deplaning from the 'Stevenson Special' charter airplane at SFO
Outside SF
View south on Mission at 22nd Street. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel. Grand Theatre in the background.
Mission
View southwest on Market at 5th Street. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to assembled crowds on the sidewalk. Penney's, Esquire and Telenews Theatres, Garfield Building in the background.
South of Market
Interior, President Harry Truman and others stand at a table (with cantaloupe) for unknown lunch event ( same day as wnp31.00139)
South of Market
Elevated view east to Muni Washington & Jackson Sts. Line cable car #527, chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes." Victorian at center since demolished.
Pacific Heights
View north to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 on turntable, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes."
North Beach
View north on Taylor to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes." On right, Cable Car #503.
North Beach
View north to Muni Washington & Mason line Cable Car #527, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes."
North Beach
View north across Washington St. to Washington and Jackson Line Cable Car #524, chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann, at the Washington & Mason carbon and powerhouse. On front left, campaign sign urging yes on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes. At right, ad for Glen Hurlburt's 'Cable Car Concerto' and 'Rhapsody of Fisherman's Wharf' record (1947).(AS)
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