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Chinatown
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Chinatown

View north on Grant Avenue to Shanghai Low restaurant, Cathay House, Sing Chong Co., California Street Cable Car crossing Grant. Lanterns strung across and along street.

Chinatown
Third Cliff House
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Third Cliff House

Totem Pole representing Whitney family members outside Cliff House. Sign for Sky Tram at far right.

Richmond
Transbay Terminal
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Transbay Terminal

View north on Fremont from Howard. Shell Building and Transamerica Pyramid in the background. Fremont House restaurant at right.

South of Market
Market & Van Ness
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Market & Van Ness

View north across Market at Van Ness Avenue. Municipal Railway (Muni) Streetcar #1110 with wings livery. Roosevelt Cafe (1516 Market) and World Motors. Election advertising for Milton Marks and John Burton on front of Cafe. 1540 Market, at left, still stands in 2021.

Civic Center
Market near 2nd
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Market near 2nd

View northwest on Market to outbound Municipal Railway (Muni) Streetcar #1015 with wings livery. Bike messenger, Hobart Building, Chancery Builing, Patrick and Company Stationers. In distance Phelan Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Flannery Building, Chronicle Building 660 Market Building, Crocker Building.

Financial District
Market & Beale
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Market & Beale

Night view west on Market across Beale. Neon signs, streetlights, and the Shell Building illuminated at top right

Downtown
Grant & Pine
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Grant & Pine

Chinatown. View north on Grant Ave. Chinese Lily Jewelry, Lamps of China, Shanghai Low.

Chinatown
Lotta's Fountain
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Lotta's Fountain

View northwest across Market to Kearny, Geary intersection. Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle Building at right( with Dr. Willett Chiropractor, Security Finance Co., W & H Cigars Liquor signs). Buildings on west side of Kearny include 2 Geary Building (with Granville's Jewelers), Schmidt Building (with Pastine's Restaurant), Baldwin Building (with O.P.O. Clothes), Oscar Luning Building (with Brooks Camera).

Downtown
Cliff House
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Cliff House

View north. Family posing on sidewalk along Point Lobos Ave. Signs for Sky Tram, Whitney's Country Store.

Richmond
19th Ave & Winston
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19th Ave & Winston

Stonestown Shopping Center sign, Merced Heights, Brooks Park in background

Merced Heights
Market at 1st
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Market at 1st

Preparing site for Crown Zellerbach Building. Hobart Building; Hunter Dulin Building; Equitable Building in background.

Downtown
Market near Fulton
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Market near Fulton

View East on Market toward 7th Street. From left, David Hewes Building, United Artists Theatre, Merrill's Drugs, Federal Hotel, Grant Building, Odd Fellows Building; Embassy Theater; Strand Theater; Hotel National.

Civic Center
Ferry Building From Bay
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Ferry Building From Bay

12 noon; looking west from bay; Southern Pacific Building (S-P sign removed in September 1961); Shell Building; Russ Building, Bethlehem Steel Corp. Building / 100 California (1960, Welton D. Becket architect), Mark Hopkins Hotel.

Financial District
Market at Embarcadero
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Market at Embarcadero

View east on Market from The Embarcadero. Southern Pacific Building, PG&E Building at left. Embarcadero freeway construction, Twin Peaks in the distance. Hotel Terminal, Mobilgas sign, Hobart Building.

Financial District
Market near Dubose
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Market near Dubose

View westerly from sidewalk on Market toward Duboce, Safeway sign and two gas station. Two Municipal Railway PCC streetcars.

Mint Hill