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 SFStores
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Market & McAllister
Elevated view northwest across Market toward Hotel Shaw on corner of McAllister. Street decorated for Shriner Parade. Methodist Publishing House and Federal Office Building at right.
South of Market
1st near Jesse
View northeast across 1st Street near Jesse toward Market Street. Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line streetcar #1025. Yellow building at left is Sheldon Building, demolished 1985. D.B. Sales discount store.
Financial District
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
Grant near California
View north from center of Grant toward California Street. Hinomoto Book Co., Sing Fat Co. with stained glass globe streetlamps in front, Sing Chong Trademark Building, Old St. Mary's Church, Shing Wah Trading Co. Before 1925 installation of dragon streetlamps.
Chinatown
Market & 1st
Elevated view west on Market across Battery. Many streetcars, automobiles, pedestrians. The block at right, with Selig Bros. Wholesale Tailors, is now the site of Zellerbach Plaza. Remington Rand Inc. at left. (negative badly deteriorating, discarded)
Financial District
Mission & 16th
View northeast across intersection of Mission and 16th Street. Market St. Railway (MSRy) 14-Line streetcar #1591. Mission 16th Market with Owl Drug in background (demolished for 16th Street BART plaza). Birdcage traffic signal.
Mission
Market & Golden Gate
View northeast across Market, Market Street Railway (MSRy) streetcar #1229 on fan trip excursion passing the Warfield Theatre. Hotel Oxford, Dean Building (1906, demolished 2018, with Art Deco remodel), Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Garfield Building, Esquire and Telenews Theatres, and Flood Building in background. Stanley's suits and coats, Margaret Burnham's Cottage Candies on left. Birdcage traffic signals. Banners strung over Market, some with 'U.S. Army.'
South of Market
Church near 30th
View northwest across Church between 30th and Day Street. Municipal Railway (Muni) J-line streetcar #97 with wings livery. Carmichael & McDonald Plumbers, Veteran's Liquors, St. Paul's Church in the background.
Noe Valley
Grant near California
View north on Grant between California and Sacramento. Sacramento Street cable car passing in the background. [Chinatown - Grant Ave.]
Chinatown
Market & 1st
View southeast across Market toward 1st Street, Municipal Railway (MUNI) streetcars M-line #83, B-line #175, and 3-line #221. Owl Drug Co. at right. Birdcage traffic signal. Flags and banners strung over Market St. at left, probably for May 21, 1949 parade honoring the Merchant Marine and 100 years of world trade from San Francisco's port. PG&E Building, Sheldon Building in background.
Financial District
Market near Powell
View northeast across Market between Powell and Stockton. 6-line streetcar #136 derailed in front of the Flood Building blocking all streetcar traffic. At this point, post merger of merger of Muni and Market Street Railway, both the tracks and equipment were worn leading to this derailment. The 4 tracks were reduced to 2 the next year. Morgen Jewelry Co., Florsheim Shoes, Moore Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes, Anglo California National Bank with large electric signs on top. Banners strung across street and on streetlamps for Lions International convention parade on July 28, 1947. Phelan Building in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Taylor
View southeast past a man seated on a wagon, to busy street scene on the 900 block of Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets. At far right is 935-931 Market, built in 1887 and first occupied by Keane Brothers dry goods. In distance left, tall building is the Academy of Sciences Building, 819 Market. [WK] [Market Street towards the ferries]
Tenderloin
Market near Grant
View southeast from the sidewalk on Market Street toward the Call Building at 3rd and Market, Chronicle Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, and Bancroft History Building(Built 1887, Ayres' Business College, Whitaker & Ray Book Sellers) are visible. Billboard for Goodwin & Elliott at the Columbia Theatre (they played there in 1900 and 1902). Stanford (photo) Studio, 725 Market; Johnson's Creamerie, 725 Market; Spreckels Market, 729 Market; Goldstein & Co. theatrical supplies, 733 Market; Hofmann & Woenne butchers, Montgomery Market, 735 Market.
Downtown / Union Square