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Looking east over Eureka Valley and Market Street to bay and hills beyond. Everett Middle School (built 1927) at center. Castro Theater and Most Holy Redeemer Catholic church below center left. Construction in progress on Bay Bridge, before installation of roadway. Construction on the new Mint (site at far left center) has not begun. Construction began August, 1935.
Clarendon Heights
Looking northwest to Golden Gate Bridge across Golden Gate Park, Richmond District, and Presidio. Kezar Stadium, Grattan Elementary School at lower right. Haight St. Car Barn center right.
Clarendon Heights
View North on Noe at Duncan. Woman waves in car at top of hill on Duncan Street, sorrounded by kids and an incredulous neighbor in a window. (Steep portion of Duncan Street was never paved and was later blocked on top by a low concrete wall.) The house is 1449 Noe.
Noe Valley
View easterly on 18th Street between Sanchez and Church. Diamond Laundry on the north side (3840 18th Street) with line of delivery trucks parked in front (replaced 1971 by 107 unit Housing Authority affordable housing apartment building). Some Victorian homes to the east still stand. Streetcar tracks for the 33-line.
Dolores Heights
Engine Co. 24 fire station with trucks parked in front.
Upper Market
New Oakland brand car tied to older jalopy on unpaved Filbert Street. 1126 Filbert Street visible.
Russian Hill
. View West on Duncan toward Noe. 1923 automobile being driven down unpaved Duncan Street (still not a through street) with concrete pedestrian staircase sidewalk. Two boys at top of hill beside shingled house at 1449 Noe..
Noe Valley
Victorian cottages slightly below grade. Sanchez or Noe streets?
View northeast from Portola Drive across Noe Valley. Houses in the foreground would be on today's Clipper Terrace. Alvarado School, St. Philip The Apostle Church at center far right. U.S. Mint and downtown at left, Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, East Bay beyond. [Portola Drive - 24th to 26th Sts. - Observation Point] [DPW A5228]
Noe Valley
View east from Portola across fields, hillsides, James Lick School toward Bernal Heights. Gas holder in left distance was at Cesar Chavez (then Army) and Evans. Houses in left foreground are on Fountain Street between 24th and 25th. Future site of Diamond Heights development at far right [Observation Point - Portola Drive 24th to 26th Sts. DPW A5229]
Noe Valley
[DPW A5509 2/5/38 - Douglass Park opposite 26th St.] Hillside and lawn put in.
Diamond Heights
View west on 29th Street between Noe and Sanchez. Construction work in the street. Tracks of Market Street Railway's (MSRy) 9-line streetcar which terminated at 29th and Noe. Many of these houses still stand in 2021. Future Diamond Heights in the distance. [29th St. W. of Sanchez St.][dpwa5817]
Noe Valley
Streetcar runaway crashed into house. Bystanders and workers standing around at night.
Dolores Heights
View east to dirt roads where Castro, Newburg and 27th Streets meet, with a group of houses on hillside. The two houses facing the camera are 1907 and 1913 Castro, still accessed via the dirt driveway up the hill to their the right. The hillside on the right is now the Castro-Duncan Open Space.
Noe Valley
View west on 24th to wrecker car pulling cable car. Twin Peaks Cafe, workers and onlookers.
Noe Valley