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Fulton Playground
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Fulton Playground

[Recreation & Parks] Men grading new playground, Washington High School on hilltop in background.

Richmond Outer
South Side Playground
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South Side Playground

Baseball game in progress with large crowd at Southside Playground (aka Father Crowley Playground) on the site of the current Hall of Justice. View northerly across Harrison, Columbia Square at left. Call Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, and Pacific Telephone Building in distance. [Recreation & Parks]

South of Market
Oakdake near Toland
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Oakdake near Toland

View east on Oakdale near Toland. Men stringing telephone cable, Bernal Heights / Peralta Heights in the background. (Pacific Telephone Inventory)

Produce Market
Fillmore & McAllister
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Fillmore & McAllister

View northeast to intersection. Abrahams Pharmacy and E. P. Halsted, Dentist on northeast corner. L. Dresner Tailors at 1188 McAllister. [060]

Alamo Square
Oak near Scott
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Oak near Scott

View northeast across Oak Street. Large structure was part of temporary Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company building complex built in 1906 to house operations after the catastrophe. Present day 1032 Oak Street at left with sign ‘J. Fitzpatrick Plumber.' (At time of photo, address was 1012 Oak Street.) (Cropped version of wnp15.845) [055]

Lower Haight
Mission & Onondaga
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Mission & Onondaga

View northerly from Mission & Onondaga. Sunnyside Conservatory and Sunnyside Powerhouse (San Francisco & San Mateo Electric Railroad) in background. Mt. Davidson, Twin Peaks, San Miguel Hills (later Diamond Heights) in distance. Telephone company workers standing in front of billboard. Detail of wnp26.1670.

Excelsior
Mission & Onondaga
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Mission & Onondaga

View northerly from Mission & Onondaga. Sunnyside Conservatory and Sunnyside Powerhouse (San Francisco & San Mateo Electric Railroad) in background. Mt. Davidson, Twin Peaks, San Miguel Hills (later Diamond Heights) in distance. Telephone company workers standing in front of billboard. [166]

Excelsior
2139 Mission
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2139 Mission

2139 Mission near 16th, Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Mission office.

Mission
Bush near Kearny
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Bush near Kearny

Elevated view north to 430-444 Bush St construction site for new main office for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. St. Anne Street running through the site in the process of being removed. Grand View Tea Garden with large electric sign on roof, Quincy Apartments in background left. Tower of Old St. Mary's Cathedral in distance center.

Downtown / Union Square
Ingleside Golf Course
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Ingleside Golf Course

View northeast toward Golden Gate Heights, from about Winston and Broadmoor. Two male golfers on bench

Stonestown
Bush near Grant
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Bush near Grant

Main telephone switchboard, Bush between Kearny and Grant. Group of women telephone operators sitting on barrels working the first multiple switchboard after the earthquake and fire.

Chinatown
Bush & Claude Lane
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Bush & Claude Lane

Elevated view northwest to 430-444 Bush Street, the new Pacific Telephone Company main office. City Flower Market, 424 Bush. Firehouse, Station 2 (460 Bush, Newton Tharp architect, built 1909) to left of telephone company building.

Downtown / Union Square
Otis & Gough
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Otis & Gough

View northeast across Otis toward Pacific Telephone Co. building, 86 Otis at Gough brick facade on one side, rebuilt after it was damaged in the 1906 Earthquake. Building still stands in 2021.

South of Market
Bush near Kearny
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Bush near Kearny

View northwest to man in suit posed holding jackhammer at new Pacific Telephone Co. main business office construction site, 430-444 Bush. Quincy Apartments in background. [#444 Bush St Before Construction Started Mr. Delury Breaks Ground]

Chinatown
Capp near 25th
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Capp near 25th

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company's Mission Exchange, 1045 Capp Street, between 25th and 26th, under construction. Horse and mules team tied up in Pacific Telephone Co. building construction site.

Mission