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Bush & Kearny

Elevated view northwest across intersection of Bush & Kearny to the California Hotel and Theater (built 1889). A poster for Russell's Comedians, a production which played there from January 19th to February 8, 1891, leans in the entryway. On the morning of the April, 1906 earthquake, the eastern chimney of the hotel fell through the roof of the adjacent fire station (which by then had a third story added) resulting in the death of Chief Dennis Sullivan. A poster on the wall of St. George Alley at lower right is for 'Musette' with Lotta Crabtree at the Baldwin Theater, which opened for a 2 week run on January 26, 1891. At right, a sign for F. H. Lawton Shirt Manufacturer, 305 Kearny. Stanford and Mark Hopkins mansions in distance left. Utility poles with 6 crossbars.

1891 Downtown / Union Square

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Columbus Near Washington

View northwest on Columbus Ave (then Montgomery Ave). Banner 'California The Land of Orange Bowers', Men in uniform, firemen pulling decorated wagons (one with a 'We Destroy To Save' motto on it, a common motto of 19th century hook and ladder companies), crowd lining street. Buildings decorated, flags strung across street. Tower of St. Francis of Assisi Church in distance. See also wnp15.1391, 15.590. Possibly Admission Day Parade, 1890.

1890 Chinatown

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Seals Stadium

Aerial view to north over a full stadium during baseball game. Rainier (later Hamm's) Brewery at left. Franklin Square at bottom left. Center top is the old Fire Department Training Tower at Bryant and Division (torn down in the October, 1951 for central Freeway construction).

1931 Potrero Hill

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10th near Market

1906 earthquake and fire damage, Studebaker Wagons Carriages Harness. Building on left a post-fire replacement office and showroom built just west of their earlier destroyed building on 10th and Market. At right, ruins of Firehouse No. 19, Hook and Ladder Co. No. 3. Posters and bills for Easton Auction in Burlingame and Regensburg's Cigars at Chas. M. Mattheas, 2579 Washington; Schoenholz & Elsbach dry goods 2011 Fillmore. [10th & Market St. June 2, '06.]

1906 South of Market

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Fulton near Larkin

View northeast across Fulton to a "chemical engine" fire truck next to Main Library at Civic Center, on Fulton Street near Larkin. In background right, St. Boniface Church, Red Cross Building at Fulton and Hyde Streets.

1925 Civic Center

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Old Mint

View southeast to fire truck on Mint Street behind Old U.S. Mint, Chronicle Building visible across Mission Street

1925 South of Market

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View from Rainier Brewery

Elevated view north to Bryant and Alameda, Bryant Street Powerhouse, Fire Department Training Tower at Bryant and Division (in distance, center, torn down in the early 1950s for central Freeway construction).

1935 Mission

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Bush & Taylor

View northeast across Bush to ruins of Engine Company No. 38 fire house, later site of Dennis T. Sullivan Memorial Fire Chief's Home. Ruins of Fairmont Hotel and Flood Mansion in distance left. To right of Fairmont is the San Francisco Institute of Art (Formerly the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art) building, opened in 1907, and later replaced by the Mark Hopkins Hotel. A large new apartment building is behind the fire house

1907 Lower Nob Hill

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12th Ave & Geary

[Firehouse 12th & Geary dpwbook5 dpw1411] View to west side of 12th Ave. Engraved on fire house: 'Truck Co. No. 15, Engine Co. No. 46'.

1913 Richmond Inner

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Stockton near Broadway

1235 Stockton between Broadway and Pacific. Engine Company 5 Buildings on either side still stand. [dpwbook13 dpw2687]

1915 Chinatown

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Pacific near Osgood Place

Engine Company No. 1 - Built 1908, 451 Pacific. In use as firehouse until 1958, later converted to offices, still standing in 2025. [dpwbook19 dpw4282]

1917 North Beach

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Hoffman & Alvarado

Fire House Engine number 24, southwest corner of Hoffman & Alvarado. [Engine 24 Hoffman St ][dpwbook22 dpw5413]

1918 Upper Market

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Diamond & Market

View west along Twin Peaks Tunnel right-of-way prior to extension of Market Street. Eureka Valley Station entrance stairways at Eureka Street. Tank Hill, Ashbury Heights High Pressure Tank on Clayton St. in background. [Diamond / Market W (Tank Hill) dpwbook25 dpw6174]

1919 Castro

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Mission & New Montgomery

Elevated view south to High Pressure Hoses, Mission & New Montgomery; Rialto Building at right, construction in progress on lot at northwest corner. [dpwbook29 dpw7088]

1921 Financial District

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Bush & Sansome

As part of 17th commemoration of '06 fire, firefighters tested standpipes on the roof of the Standard Oil Building, then the tallest structure in San Francisco. The standpipes were connected to the High Pressure Auxiliary Water System built after the 1906 fire. They demonstrated that they could shoot water 400 feet, or 70 feet higher than the building.[Firefighters posing at Standard Oil Building dpwbook32 dpw8640]

1923 Financial District