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Cow Palace
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Cow Palace

Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace, SF Mayor George Christopher speaking

Outside SF
Cow Palace
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Cow Palace

Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace, SF Mayor George Christopher speaking

Outside SF
Cow Palace
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Cow Palace

Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace,

Outside SF
Union Square
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Union Square

Mayor George Christopher leads the Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band during the dedication of a motorized cable car ready to set out on a nationwide goodwill tour sponsored by Western Airlines. City of Paris in the background.

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

Mayor George Christopher leads the Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band during the dedication of a motorized cable car ready to set out on a nationwide goodwill tour sponsored by Western Airlines. City of Paris in the background.

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

Mayor George Christopher leads the Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band during the dedication of a motorized cable car ready to set out on a nationwide goodwill tour sponsored by Western Airlines.

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

The Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band during the dedication of a motorized cable car ready to set out on a nationwide goodwill tour sponsored by Western Airlines.

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

The Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band, with Christine Falkenberg, Miss San Francisco, during the dedication of a motorized cable car ready to set out on a nationwide goodwill tour sponsored by Western Airlines.

Downtown / Union Square
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Unknown Location

SF Mayor John Shelley and Chief Administrative Officer Thomas Mellon display a large reproduction of Call Chronicle Examiner front page from 1906. (Probably taken in an office at City Hall.)

Civic Center
O'Farrell & Mason
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O'Farrell & Mason

Elevated View east on O'Farrell from the parking structure at Mason. Crowd of anti-war marchers. Building with Pianos sign at right, the Travelers Hotel at 249-255 O'Farrell on the southwest corner of Carlos Street (built as Hotel Eugene in 1914), was demolished for Hotel Nikko. [5/13/72 - Antiwar protesters march through downtown San Francisco 5/13 in a peaceful demonstration againts President Nixon's Vietnam war policies. The crowd numbered about 1,000 which marched to the Civic Center. UPI]

Tenderloin
St. Mary's Square
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St. Mary's Square

View north in St. Mary's Square toward Old St. Mary's Church. Ceremony for Sun Yat Sen's birthday. [In a ceremony at the foot of the statue of Sun Yat Sen members of San Francisco's Chinese colony bow in honor of his birthday. Among those attending the ceremony was Tse Kiong Sun, grandson of Sun Yat Sen.]

Chinatown
Seals Stadium
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Seals Stadium

SF Giants players in the clubhouse at Seals Stadium (16th and Bryant), Daryl Spencer, Bob Schmidt, Jim Davenport, Orlando Cepeda each holding up a finger indicating the home runs they hit in the Giants 10-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Mission
Market & Powell
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Market & Powell

Night view of crowds of baseball fans celebrating the Giants win over the Dodgers to win the 1962 National League Pennant and move on to the World Series. View west, Flood Building at right..

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Powell
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Market & Powell

Night view of crowds of baseball fans celebrating the Giants win over the Dodgers to win the 1962 National League Pennant and move on to the World Series. View west up Eddy St.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Powell
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Market & Powell

Night view of crowds of baseball fans celebrating the Giants win over the Dodgers to win the 1962 National League Pennant and move on to the World Series. View east, Flood Building at left.

South of Market