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O'Farrell & Powell
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O'Farrell & Powell

View east to O'Farrell-Jones & Hyde Street Cable Car, Call Building and Kamm Building in background left. Orpheum (later Columbia) Theatre and Orpheum Annex Hotel on right, Phelan Building in distance.. Keiner's and Tait-Zinkand Cafe, Hotel Adena on left. Richard Valentine Tailor on right.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Embarcadero
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Market & Embarcadero

Pedestrians on Ferry Building Loop. View from pedestrian bridge stairs.

Financial District
Van Ness & Turk
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Van Ness & Turk

View north from center of intersection to southbound H-line #6 streetcar at Ellis St. intersection. Spire of St. Mary's Cathedral at left. Gallagher-Marsh Business College, H.V. Carter Motor Co, Thurston Motor Co., Universal Motor Co. at right. wnp27.3914 is a detail of this larger view.

Civic Center
Van Ness & Vallejo
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Van Ness & Vallejo

View north from center of intersection to auto making left turn across Van ness. Safety instruction - posed, Muni H-Line. 2340 Van Ness under construction in background.

Polk Gulch
Lombard near Leavenworth
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Lombard near Leavenworth

Crooked street construction, roadway completed, cars coming down

Russian Hill
Embarcadero & Howard
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Embarcadero & Howard

View south. Bay Bridge in background, Seaboard Hotel with giant Sherwin-Williams electric billboard sign on top.

Financial District
Clay near Powell
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Clay near Powell

View west up Clay to cars parked on hill, group of children on way down.

Nob Hill
18th & Castro
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18th & Castro

View south from center of Castro to a Market Street Railway (MSRY) Castro St. Cable Car at terminus of line. (Cable car is blurred.) Castro Dept. Store on left.

Castro
Sansome & Commercial
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Sansome & Commercial

View east on Commercial from Sansome, looking towards Ferry Building, Old Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Building on right, area now part of Embarcadero Center.

Financial District
California & Grant
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California & Grant

View west up California to Mark Hopkins Hotel in distance. Sing Fat Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (later Cogswell College, Ritz Carlton Hotel) up hill on left. Cathay House Restaurant. 720 California, then Hartford Insurance Building, at far right. Lanterns strung across intersection.

Chinatown
Folsom & 3rd St
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Folsom & 3rd St

View east on Folsom toward 3rd Street. (Nothing in this view remains) 36-line streetcar tracks. Hotels, rooming houses, Third & Folsom Garage, Cabin Cafe

South of Market
Folsom & 5th St
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Folsom & 5th St

View east on Folsom toward 5th Street. (building on the corners and south, right, side demolished) 36-line streetcar tracks.

South of Market
Folsom & 6th St
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Folsom & 6th St

View East on Folsom toward 6th Street, Market Street Railway (MSRY) 36-line streetcar tracks. Signal Gasoline, Duart Manufacturing on left, Gilmore Red Lion Gasoline on the right

South of Market
Folsom & 7th St
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Folsom & 7th St

View East on Folsom toward 7th Street. 36-line streetcar tracks. Buildings on the far right corner still stand (2019) Trees at Columbia Square are visible on the right.

South of Market
Folsom & 8th St
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Folsom & 8th St

View East on Folsom toward 8th. 36-line streetcar tracks. Both buildings on the far corners still stand. Gus' Lunch on left, Galland Mercantile Laundry on right.

South of Market