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Powell & Market

View south to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 near 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." On left Owl Drug in Flood Building.

1947 Downtown / Union Square

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Union Square

KPTV ABC television camera set up on tripod in Union Square. KPTV bus with additional camera crews on roof. St. Francis Hotel in background.

1964 Downtown / Union Square

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15th near Beaver

Corona Heights [The row of new homes below Red Rock Hill (sic) ... are threatened by a rock slide as the result of a deep fissure in the hill. Residents of 13 houses have been warned and the city has started work to avert an avalanche.]

1936 Corona Heights

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Civic Center

Diamond Jubilee Parade celebrating California's 75th admission day anniversary. Sailors from Japanese Navy ship 'Tama' marching in formation approaching City Hall. Viewing stand and Main Library at right.

1925 Civic Center

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Civic Center

Elevated view west on Fulton from Market. Parade for Harry Lyon and James Warner who with Australians Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm flew the airplane Southern Cross from the US to Australia. Marching band at center, numerous automobiles, bicyclists, crowds of onlookers lining sidewalks. [Rousing Cheers Acclaim Transpacific Fliers Return From Australia] [SF-3322]

1928 Civic Center

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SF Bay

View north to US Navy Fleet steaming in formation past north waterfront, viewed from Bay Bridge under construction. [the US Navy steamed through the Golden Gate and anchored in San Francisco Bay for a nine-day stay. ...USS aircraft Carrier Lexington ... dirigible Macon] Cameraman in foreground.

1934

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View from Bay Bridge

View northwest from under construction Bay Bridge. [night picture of SF's business district, with Ferry Building at extreme right, shows what the motorist will see from the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge after sunset ... over the $77,000,000 structure which will be opened to traffic on Nov. 12]

1936