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Kearny & Vermehr Place
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Kearny & Vermehr Place

View east across Kearny to 122-130 Kearny, White Lunch Co. with delivery trucks and drivers in front. "Never Closed", "Ascend The Marble Stairway to the White Lunch Cafenet"; D.C. Heger Art Neckwear 116-118 Kearny; W.J. Hesthal Golden Gate Loan Office, 110 Kearny.

Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Grant
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Geary & Grant

Looking east toward Market. de Young / Chronicle Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Magnin's at right.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & 1st
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Market & 1st

Elevated view northeast down Market toward Battery & Bush, Donahue Monument with high-backed bench at left, Postal Telegraph Building, Board of Trade Building (with Technical Book Co., Warner Bros. Radio), Tilden Sales Building, Fife Building with large sign atop, Ferry Building. H.C. Golcher guns, Selig Bros. Tailors at left. Ferry Building in distance with large sign on roof (portion visible is 'July 7') which is likely 1934 "Knights Templar July 7-13 Welcome". Market Street Railway (MSRy) 1-line streetcar #223, Streetcars of K, J,L, B, N Lines.

Financial District
Market near 3rd
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Market near 3rd

Elevated view southwest across Market toward 3rd Street showing many Muni and Market St. Railway (MSRy) streetcars, mostly inbound. Monadnock Building (with Great Northern Railroad, Eureka Federal Savings & Loan, Meussdorffer Hats 675 Market, Pressler's Men's Clothing 687 Market), Hearst/Examiner Building, Call Building (with Owl Drugs), Kamm Building, Humboldt Bank Building in background. At right, signs for Florsheim Shoes and Hymans Leasing, Tascone's Coffee Shop. Lotta's Fountain. Among pedestrians are men and women in uniform. Two soldiers in Jeep at bottom, center. Same image as wnp67.0647 with tighter cropping.

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Fillmore
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Sutter & Fillmore

View east on Sutter to Muni C-line #49 streetcar. Muni 22-line #896 with zip stripe livery crosses in front. The Encore (Club), 1805 Fillmore, at left. Foster's Cafeteria, Marchetti Wine & Liquors, Dr. Perez Dentist.

Lower Pacific Heights
View of Downtown
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View of Downtown

Elevated night view southeast over retail district to South of Market, from the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Union Square, City of Paris, I. Magnin, Whittell Building. Howard Building (Head Building), Phelan Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Central Tower (former Call Building), Pacific Telephone Building, In distance left, Union 76 clock tower on Bay Bridge approach.

Downtown / Union Square
Taylor & Jefferson
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Taylor & Jefferson

View south across Jefferson down Taylor Street towards Russian Hill. Tokyo Sukiyaki at right. A. Sabella's at left. Peter Alioto's Italian Restaurant, Hof Brau, Sea Captain's Chest.

Fishermans Wharf
Washington near Spofford
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Washington near Spofford

View east on Washington past Chinatown storefronts and multiple Chop Suey restaurant electric signs. Hing Choy Cafe 854 Washington. U.S. Appraiser's Building in distance.

Chinatown
Kearny & Market
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Kearny & Market

Elevated view north across busy Market St, horsecar crossing intersection. Many horsecars on Kearny street. Telegraph Hill in the distance. Lotta's Fountain visible behind awnings of Nucleus House on right. Signs for "Rubber Stamps & Printing Wheels" and "California Elastic Truss Co." on building across Market Street on left. Building on northwest corner of Geary & Kearny with large Dentistry sign on roof with eagle on top. Building at northeast corner of Geary & Kearny has large "Eagleson & Co. 4 and 6 Kearny St. Shirts Underwear" sign, C.N. West Electro Medical Belts sign, partially visible sign for E. Mansbach Fancy Goods, 26 Kearny, partially visible. Banners strung over Kearny for Verein Eintracht masquerade ball benefit for sufferers from East Germany. [No. 136 Kearny St.]

South of Market
Market & 5th
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Market & 5th

Elevated view northeast across Market Street. St. Ann's Building, Baldwin Hotel (destroyed by fire 1898, site of later Flood Building) at right on Powell St. Flags strung from utility poles with 7 crossbars on south side of Market, and banners hung across street. The Louvre Restaurant, Unsworth Sign Co. 1028 Market.

South of Market
Market near Taylor
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Market near Taylor

View east down Market toward Ferry Building. Mark Strouse Bay City Market at left, Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument beyond. Call Building and Emporium at right. Alisky's Art Studio. (Flood Building not yet constructed.)

Tenderloin
Palace Hotel
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Palace Hotel

Elevated view southeast across Market to Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, carpet and upholstery store on the right in Nucleus Block building. Top of Lotta's Fountain in foreground.

Downtown / Union Square
30th & Church
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30th & Church

View northwest across intersection toward Diamond Heights and Muni PCC Streecar #1025. B.S.C. Cleaners & Laundry, Son Ma House Groceries Liquors.

Noe Valley
Grant & California
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Grant & California

View north on Grant from California St. Old St. Mary's church at right. Far East Cafe, Shangri-La Art Goods, United Dept. Store, Kan's Restaurant, Lotus Bowl, Paulist Library.

Chinatown
Fillmore &  Bush
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Fillmore & Bush

View southwest across Fillmore to Franklin Hall (demolished 1941). Franklin Hall served as a relief headquarters and temporary City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Bothwell Browne's dance studio and Hoover University of Physical Culture, 1881 Fillmore. Ripperdan's Dancing Academy, Laib Signs, San Francisco Examiner Branch Office, United Cigar Stores. Phoenix Real Estate Co., Barker & Walsh, Consulting Engineers. F.L. Stewart Notary Public and Attorney at Law.

Japantown