Contains 940 photos
View southeast across Market toward 1st Street, Municipal Railway (MUNI) streetcars M-line #83, B-line #175, and 3-line #221. Owl Drug Co. at right. Birdcage traffic signal. Flags and banners strung over Market St. at left, probably for May 21, 1949 parade honoring the Merchant Marine and 100 years of world trade from San Francisco's port. PG&E Building, Sheldon Building in background.
Financial District
View northeast across Market between Powell and Stockton. 6-line streetcar #136 derailed in front of the Flood Building blocking all streetcar traffic. At this point, post merger of merger of Muni and Market Street Railway, both the tracks and equipment were worn leading to this derailment. The 4 tracks were reduced to 2 the next year. Morgen Jewelry Co., Florsheim Shoes, Moore Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes, Anglo California National Bank with large electric signs on top. Banners strung across street and on streetlamps for Lions International convention parade on July 28, 1947. Phelan Building in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast past a man seated on a wagon, to busy street scene on the 900 block of Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets. At far right is 935-931 Market, built in 1887 and first occupied by Keane Brothers dry goods. In distance left, tall building is the Academy of Sciences Building, 819 Market. [WK] [Market Street towards the ferries]
Tenderloin
View southeast from the sidewalk on Market Street toward the Call Building at 3rd and Market, Chronicle Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, and Bancroft History Building(Built 1887, Ayres' Business College, Whitaker & Ray Book Sellers) are visible. Billboard for Goodwin & Elliott at the Columbia Theatre (they played there in 1900 and 1902). Stanford (photo) Studio, 725 Market; Johnson's Creamerie, 725 Market; Spreckels Market, 729 Market; Goldstein & Co. theatrical supplies, 733 Market; Hofmann & Woenne butchers, Montgomery Market, 735 Market.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view east on Market from Powell St. From left: Flood Building, Call Building, Humboldt Bank and the Emporium at right. Crowds of people and streetcars.
Downtown / Union Square
Marquard's Little Cigar Store
Downtown / Union Square
Dog resting in the window of adult bookstore [porno bulldog]
Cat in the window of the store White Rabbit, at 1409 Haight Street.
Haight Ashbury
Esther Antonia, known as Shopping Cart Annie, playing accordion in doorway of San Remo shoe store at 226 Powell Street, with two men in suits passing by.
Downtown / Union Square
View across the intersection towards the demolition of City of Paris department store building
Downtown / Union Square