Market near Grant
Portola Festival parade float with festival queen Ann Bucher, 'Queen for a Day' radio program winner Dorothy Young, and assorted maids in waiting. Lundstrom Hats at 720 Market in background
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    Portola Festival parade float with festival queen Ann Bucher, 'Queen for a Day' radio program winner Dorothy Young, and assorted maids in waiting. Lundstrom Hats at 720 Market in background
Downtown / Union Square
    Portola Festival parade San Francisco Naval Shipyard float with man in Portola costume with horse model and banner reading 'Don Portola Should Have Had A Radar.' Behind, National Shirt Shops at 768 Market.
Downtown / Union Square
    Portola Festival parade. Naval Supply Center Oakland float with model of USS Portsmouth at sea approaching land. Behind, National Shirt Shops at 768 Market.
Downtown / Union Square
    San Francisco Seals baseball team catcher warming up along 3rd base side.
Mission
    San Francisco Seals baseball team catcher warming up along 3rd base side.
Mission
    San Francisco Seals baseball team catcher warming up along 3rd base side.
Mission
    San Francisco Seals baseball team catcher warming up along 3rd base side.
Mission
    San Francisco Seals baseball player warming up along 3rd base side.
Mission
    San Francisco Seals baseball player warming up along 3rd base side.
Mission
    Smith's Drive-In restaurant on El Camino Real north of Hillcrest Blvd. Opened by Elmer Smith in 1945. Closed in 1958 and later reopened as Niki's Drive-In until 1972. Building demolished in 1972.
Outside SF
    View east across Van Ness Avenue to facade and dome of City Hall at night.
Civic Center
    View south on Grant Street at night. Neon signs advertising Chinatown restaurants, including Hang Far Low.
Chinatown
    View north past cable car at intersection. Chinatown businesses including New Grant Hotel (Transient), Lee's, Frank's, Cathay House, and Sing Chong.
Chinatown
    View east over fishing boat basin towards Fishermen's Grotto #9, Alioto's and Tarantino's Restaurants. Gas holder/tank at foot of Powell, gas works in distance.
    View northeasst to fishing boats moored in boat basin. Freighter 'Philippine Bear' tied up at Pier 45 in background. The ship had been built as a U.S. Navy freighter, USS Townsend, 19 1944, but was decommissioned and sold to Pacific Far East Lines in September, 1947 and renamed SS Philippine Bear.
Fishermans Wharf