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Burlingame
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Burlingame

Burlingame Hills Bus and driver

Outside SF
Century Theatre
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Century Theatre

Crowd in front of Century Theatre, previously Cort, Curran, later Morosco and Capitol (home of Capitol Follies burlesque). Premiere of HUNTING BIG GAME IN AFRICA WITH GUN AND CAMERA, by Oakland hunter explorer H.A. Snow (1869-1927). On Ellis near Stockton. Theatre demolished in 1941

Downtown / Union Square
Century Theatre
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Century Theatre

Crowd in front of Century Theatre, previously Cort, Curran, later Morosco and Capitol (home of Capitol Follies burlesque). Premiere of HUNTING BIG GAME IN AFRICA WITH GUN AND CAMERA, by Oakland hunter explorer H.A. Snow (1869-1927). On Ellis near Stockton. Theatre demolished in 1941.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

Lotta's Fountain Series, elevated view north from across Market to Chronicle Building with large clock above entrance. Handwritten news on building: "Mrs. Virginia Clark of Oakland today confessed today that she shot and hilled her husband"

Downtown / Union Square
O'Farrell & Powell
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O'Farrell & Powell

View east to O'Farrell-Jones & Hyde Street Cable Car, Call Building and Kamm Building in background left. Orpheum (later Columbia) Theatre and Orpheum Annex Hotel on right, Phelan Building in distance.. Keiner's and Tait-Zinkand Cafe, Hotel Adena on left. Richard Valentine Tailor on right.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Embarcadero
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Market & Embarcadero

View southeast down Embarcadero from pedestrian bridge. Ferry Loop at left.

Financial District
Van Ness near Green
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Van Ness near Green

Staged safety instruction photo showing a woman boarding a streetcar while squeezed between an auto and the streetcar. View north on Van Ness Avenue. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral on Green Street at far left.

Russian Hill
Ocean Shore Railroad
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Ocean Shore Railroad

Boxcar with 5 men on top next to large building. In front are 9 trucks with many men standing on the truck beds.

Ocean Beach Esplanade
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Ocean Beach Esplanade

Car parked near foot of Cabrillo St. looking north, construction in background

Richmond Outer
Ocean Beach
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Ocean Beach

Kids wading in surf, looking north towards Third Cliff House, H.C. Tibbets photo.

Sutro Heights
Sloat near 46th Ave
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Sloat near 46th Ave

View north near terminus to Market Street Railroad (MSR) 12-Line #1739 derailment. Rainier Restaurant.

Parkside
Market near 7th
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Market near 7th

View southeast across Market to 21-Line MSRY #1553, Embassy and Strand Theaters, Serbin's Mens Wear, Hotel National with Army Navy Goods Store, Odd Fellows Building, Grant Building, United Artists Theater, David Hewes Building in distance left.

South of Market
Mission & 6th St
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Mission & 6th St

View east from center of Mission St. to Mission25-Line MSRY #989 with zip stripe livery turning south on 6th. Background right, Hotel Thomas, California Casket Co. Building, built 1906, Albert Pissis Architect, extant 2020.

South of Market
16th & Guerrero
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16th & Guerrero

View northeast to 22-Line #912 with wings livery (with ads for Dohrmann's and 'The Winsow Boy' at the Geary) in intersection.

Mission Dolores
Judah & La Playa
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Judah & La Playa

View east to five N-Judah steetcars, some with wings livery, lined up, looking east, Dick's at the Beach (with painted martini signage) at left. Cars are lined up at the beach, waiting for a big game to end at Kezar (on Stanyan) where they will head to pickup passengers when it's over. They kept in touch by telephone.

Sunset Outer