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The train ferry Solano (1879-1930) departing her Port Costa slip with a passenger train for her last trip across the Carquinez Strait to Benicia. Farewell crowds and the press fill her deck. The Solano made her last trip on the same day the Benicia-Martinez Railroad Bridge opened. [2051-53]
Outside SF
Tavern of Tamalpais. East Peak. The Tavern burned to the ground in a 1923 fire, but was rebuilt and reopened in 1924.
Train ferry 'Contra Costa' with two locomotives and passenger cars on deck Pulling into ferry slip at either Benicia or Port Costa
Unknown boxing match with big crowd around ring
Unknown boxing match with big crowd around ring
California Crisp Company, address number 411, unknown street in Oakland CA. The 1907 SF-Oakland Directory places this business at 1410 Brush Street, Oakland. Two women and a man pose in front of the "California Crisp Co. / 411 / Wholesale and Retail / Phone OAK 1242." 1907 Pacific Telephone Directory lists business at 767 19th St., Oakland, with same phone no. on window. F.A. Struble, Mgr.
Outside SF
View north over Mills Field, San Bruno 3pm (future SF International Airport, SFO) showing a huge traffic jam on Bayshore Highway during US Army Air Corp War Maneuvers demonstration. South San Francisco, San Bruno Mountain, SF in the distance. [Mills Field SF, CAL. - (04-32-j-15)(4-19-30-3p)(12-2000)] (15th Photo Air Corps - US Army)
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Brisbane, View north to Bayview Hill and Candlestick Point (The first hill at center was flattened for bay fill). Southern Pacific Bayshore yards site. Trestle going across inlet as part of Bayshore cut-off.
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View East from Highway US101 above Sausalito. "Old Town" / "Hurricane Gulch" part of town at center, Angel Island in distance.
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Tanforan Race Track, San Bruno. Handlers prepare the plane for Louis Paulhan to make the first airplane flight in San Mateo county. Grandstand and San Bruno Mountain behind.
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Chinese dragon set on stools and sawhorses, on a cobblestone street. possibly in Los Angeles for the Fiesta De Los Angeles parade.
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El Rancho Drive-in, 157 Hickey Blvd, South San Francisco. Showing 'Lady in Cement'
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MSRY 40-line interurban streetcar #1234. View from El Camino Real near Colma Creek. Fields, cows, and Southern Pacific Railroad, San Bruno Mountain in distance.
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2 men and a car with San Francisco Bay, Bay shore in background, Western Pipe & Steel [Star Six automobile climbs '57' Hill in South San Francisco. Julius Dusevoir, of the Durant Motor Company of California, pilots Star touring car, stock in every respect, to summit of Pickle Hill, over grades of 67%. The car was left there with lights burning at night and attracted much attention Oakland Tribune 17 May 1925] (not sure either of these men are Dusevoir)
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Oaks Park. Oakland Oaks vs. Los Angeles baseball game in progress. American Rubber Manufacturing warehouse in background, now the site of Pixar Animation.
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