Retail

Contains 940 photos

Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View east from corner to workers turning Market Street Railway (MSRy) Washington & Jackson Line cable car #527 on turntable. Flood Building with Florsheim Shoes and Owl Drug in background. Birdcage traffic signal.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View east from corner to workers pushing Market Street Railway (MSRy) Washington & Jackson Line cable car #527 from turntable. Flood Building with Florsheim Shoes and Owl Drug in background. Birdcage traffic signal.

Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Grant
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Geary & Grant

A sidewalk flower stand with striped canvas umbrellas. View west across Grant at the southeast corner of Geary and Grant. Buildings in background still stand 2020.

Downtown / Union Square
Fishermen's Grotto
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Fishermen's Grotto

Trucks parked in front of Pier 45, Bay Cruise at right. Golden Gate Bridge in background.

Fishermans Wharf
3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

View southwest to streetcar/ truck/ auto accident, Monadnock Building with Eureka Federal Savings & Loan and Lieberman's Books 687 Market. Examiner Building, Central Tower, Muni J-Line streetcar. Humboldt Bank Building in distance.

Kearny & Vermehr Place
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Kearny & Vermehr Place

View east across Kearny to 122-130 Kearny, White Lunch Co. with delivery trucks and drivers in front. "Never Closed", "Ascend The Marble Stairway to the White Lunch Cafenet"; D.C. Heger Art Neckwear 116-118 Kearny; W.J. Hesthal Golden Gate Loan Office, 110 Kearny.

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Polk
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Sutter & Polk

View north across Sutter toward the White Lunch and its delivery truck on the northeast corner.

Lower Nob Hill
Market & 1st
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Market & 1st

Elevated view northeast down Market toward Battery & Bush, Donahue Monument with high-backed bench at left, Postal Telegraph Building, Board of Trade Building (with Technical Book Co., Warner Bros. Radio), Tilden Sales Building, Fife Building with large sign atop, Ferry Building. H.C. Golcher guns, Selig Bros. Tailors at left. Ferry Building in distance with large sign on roof (portion visible is 'July 7') which is likely 1934 "Knights Templar July 7-13 Welcome". Market Street Railway (MSRy) 1-line streetcar #223, Streetcars of K, J,L, B, N Lines.

Financial District
Market near 3rd
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Market near 3rd

Elevated view southwest across Market toward 3rd Street showing many Muni and Market St. Railway (MSRy) streetcars, mostly inbound. Monadnock Building (with Great Northern Railroad, Eureka Federal Savings & Loan, Meussdorffer Hats 675 Market, Pressler's Men's Clothing 687 Market), Hearst/Examiner Building, Call Building (with Owl Drugs), Kamm Building, Humboldt Bank Building in background. At right, signs for Florsheim Shoes and Hymans Leasing, Tascone's Coffee Shop. Lotta's Fountain. Among pedestrians are men and women in uniform. Two soldiers in Jeep at bottom, center. Same image as wnp67.0647 with tighter cropping.

Downtown / Union Square
Bay & Hyde
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Bay & Hyde

View northeast across the intersection of Bay and Hyde. Hyde & O'Farrell Line cable car taking on passengers in the street. Bay & Hyde Grocery on the northeast corner in the background still stands in 2022.

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View of Downtown
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View of Downtown

Elevated night view southeast over retail district to South of Market, from the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Union Square, City of Paris, I. Magnin, Whittell Building. Howard Building (Head Building), Phelan Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Central Tower (former Call Building), Pacific Telephone Building, In distance left, Union 76 clock tower on Bay Bridge approach.

Downtown / Union Square
Market Near Montgomery
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Market Near Montgomery

Elevated view, looking northeast across Market toward Crocker Building (demolished 1966) at the corner. The old 660 Market Building with large billboard on roof with Omar Cigarette ad and Lyon & Hoag Real Estate sign (Realty Building, built 1907 demolished 1923) at left. The Waldorf, Wells Fargo Union Trust Building (demolished 1966), Hobart Building under construction. Patrick & Co., Flatiron Building. H.G. Squier Real Estate Co.

Downtown / Union Square
Taylor & Jefferson
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Taylor & Jefferson

View south across Jefferson down Taylor Street towards Russian Hill. Tokyo Sukiyaki at right. A. Sabella's at left. Peter Alioto's Italian Restaurant, Hof Brau, Sea Captain's Chest.

Fishermans Wharf
Fisherman's Wharf
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Fisherman's Wharf

View northwest across intersection from Beach & Taylor. Mexican Pottery Co. gifts, Steve Bellante & Pete Alioto's The Wharf restaurant, 2737 Taylor, with fishing boat sign; two men working at top of utility pole at center. Casa Mia, Tokyo Sukiyaki Restaurant, Alioto's, Fishermen's Grotto in distance.

Fishermans Wharf
The Cannery
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The Cannery

View north from courtyard to Alcatraz.

Fishermans Wharf