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Grove near Polk
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Grove near Polk

View north across Grove between Polk and Larkin St. Civic Center Plaza with old Main Library and Welcome Home Victory Monument in the background. Two trucks posed on Grove Street with signs reading 'California Highway Motor Train - San Francisco to Los Angeles and return by SF Truck Distributors - 3 ½ Ton Federal Truck carrying power farm machinery for W.L. Hughson Co.'

Civic Center
Geary & Mason
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Geary & Mason

View west on Geary from Mason. Trianon Steak House, Geary Theatre (showing 'The Only Girl'), Curran Theatre (showing 'Suds in your Eye'). Bouquet-Cohn liquors, Trianon Steak House, Hollywood Florist.

Downtown / Union Square
Santa Rosa
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Santa Rosa

4th Street, near A Street, Santa Rosa. Three men in white parade uniforms sitting in the street for an unknown event. E.E. Morrow plumbing supply, Santa Rosa Undertaking Company (established 1901).

Outside SF
Grant & Pine
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Grant & Pine

Postcard view north on Grant from Pine. Shanghai Low restaurant at right. New Grant Hotel, Hotel Yamato, Sing Chong Co. Far East Cafe and Hang Far Low noodles in distance. [San Francisco's famous Chinatown, the largest outside China itself.] [Zan 1701]

Chinatown
Fisherman's Wharf
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Fisherman's Wharf

View east from present day Al Scoma Way. Fishing boats at the pier, Tarantino's Restaurant, DiMaggio's Restaurant, and gas tank (gasometer) and gas works in the background.

Fishermans Wharf
Coit Tower
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Coit Tower

View northeast from Russian Hill toward Coit Tower across North Beach. Safeway store at Taylor and Pacific (Building has since been demolished) in bottom center.

Nob Hill
1st near Mission
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1st near Mission

View from Transbay Terminal toward 1st and Mission. Municipal Railway (MUNI) L-line streetcar #1151 entering terminal. Doc Holliday's Saloon and Terminal Drugs in the Background.

South of Market
Judah & 9th Ave
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Judah & 9th Ave

View northeast across intersection. Westbound Municipal Railway MUNI N-Line streetcar #1029 turning onto Judah from 9th Avenue.

Sunset Inner
Grant & Bush
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Grant & Bush

View northeast across intersection, before Dragon Gate entrance to Chinatown was installed in 1970. Grant Cafe, City of Hankow Tassel Co. Lanterns along and across Grant.

Chinatown
Grant near California
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Grant near California

View north on Grant from California Street. Old St. Mary's Church at right, Far East Cafe, Lotus Bowl, Tai Ping chop suey, Shangri-la Art Goods, United Dept. Store.

Chinatown
Lombard near Fillmore
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Lombard near Fillmore

Chuck Wagon Restaurant 2036 Lombard between Fillmore and Webster. Building on left demolished.

Marina
Fisherman's Wharf
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Fisherman's Wharf

Fishermen's Grotto, Taylor Street at Embarcadero.

Fishermans Wharf
Fisherman's Wharf
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Fisherman's Wharf

View north on Taylor across Jefferson to Excelsior Fish Market, Sabella-Latorre, The Lighthouse, Alioto's, Fishermen's Grotto with construction in front, and Pier 45 in the background.

Fishermans Wharf
Mission & 1st
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Mission & 1st

View northeast across intersection of Mission and 1st Street. Municipal Railway (MUNI) 11-Line streetcar #805 passing Foster's Cafeteria in the C. C. Moore Building.

South of Market
Judah & La Playa
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Judah & La Playa

View northeast across intersection to Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line streetcar #204 and unidentified PCC. Dick's at the Beach and 7UP sign at left. Interurban Films

Sunset Outer