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Fleishhacker Pool
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Fleishhacker Pool

Winners of Swimming and Diving competition. Group posing on Great Highway side of Pool House and restaurant.

Lakeshore
Huntington Hotel
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Huntington Hotel

View north to Nancy Kelly, Dane Clark, and Robert Young rehearsing the Clifford Odets play 'A Country Girl' on the roof of the Huntington Hotel after original rehearsal was moved due to a religious ceremony at the Geary Theatre. Grace Cathedral, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928.

Nob Hill
Huntington Hotel
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Huntington Hotel

View north to Nancy Kelly, Dane Clark, and Robert Young rehearsing the Clifford Odets play 'A Country Girl' on the roof of the Huntington Hotel after original rehearsal was moved due to a religious ceremony at the Geary Theatre. Grace Cathedral, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928.

Nob Hill
Huntington Hotel
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Huntington Hotel

View north to Nancy Kelly, Dane Clark, and Robert Young rehearsing the Clifford Odets play 'A Country Girl' on the roof of the Huntington Hotel after original rehearsal was moved due to a religious ceremony at the Geary Theatre.

Nob Hill
Natoma near New Montgomery
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Natoma near New Montgomery

Fire in building on Natoma near New Montgomery. Fireman shooting water onto second story, hoses in the street.

South of Market
Kearny near Geary
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Kearny near Geary

View south on Kearny with Geary, Market and Third Streets in background. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade. Stevenson waving to crowd. Signs for Top Hat Cocktails, W and H Liquors, Dr. Willet Chiropractor and W and H Cigars Liquor on Chronicle Building. Painless Parker Dentist and The Stag at right in Flannery Building. Hearst Examiner Building and Central Tower (Call Building) in background.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 6th
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Market near 6th

View west on Market toward Sixth. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade traveling from SF Airport to the Fairmont Hotel.

Tenderloin
Embarcadero near Vallejo
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Embarcadero near Vallejo

View west to wharves, Telegraph Hill at right. Fishing nets spread across wharf, men attending to them. A 23 day strike of wholesale fish butchers and teamsters took place in September and October of 1936. Fishing Boat Balboa at left. In distance left, Kockos Bros. Wholesale Grocers 48 Broadway, Albers Bros. Milling Co. 743 Davis. [36 Fish Strike]. Pier 9. [1936 Fish Strike at Fisherman's Wharf]

Grattan School
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Grattan School

Grattan School Principal Mary Ryan

Ashbury Heights
Hamilton School
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Hamilton School

Adults sitting in assembly hall at Hamilton School. [Hamilton School]

Oakland Mole
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Oakland Mole

[getting off train] Commuter train at the Oakland Mole.

Outside SF
Oakland Mole
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Oakland Mole

[on the dock] Commuter train at the Oakland Mole.

Outside SF
Mayor Angelo Rossi
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Mayor Angelo Rossi

Mayor Rossi with Vice President of Guatemala, possibly Escolastico de Leon (no name listed). Taken in mayor's office in City Hall.

Civic Center
Civic Center
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Civic Center

Protesters outside the Civic Auditorium, Grove between Larkin and Polk, protesting China policy while President Eisenhower was speaking at Civic Auditorium. City Hall in background.

Civic Center
Hall of Justice
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Hall of Justice

Memorial for Judge Matthew Brady at Hall of Justice (Kearny and Washington), Irene Brady, wife of Judge Brady with safety patrol students of St. Mary's Chinese School and Ss. Peter & Paul School. Safety patrol boys include Louis Birleffi, Ray Pissiciotta, Roy Arrighhi, Francis Mark Jr. and Collin Quock. (Judge Brady annually held a meeting for school safety patrol on his birthday).

Chinatown