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View from Hobart Building
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View from Hobart Building

Elevated view west on Market Street from the Hobart Building. Palace Hotel and Crocker Building in the foreground. Monadnock, Hearst, Spreckels/Call Building, Humboldt Bank.

Financial District
Columbus & Union
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Columbus & Union

View east across Columbus toward Washington Square with Coit Tower in background. Municipal Railway (Muni) 39-line Bus #060. Dante Building in center background

North Beach
Market near 9th
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Market near 9th

View east on Market toward 9th Street. Municipal Railway (Muni) 8-line trolley coach #753. Eugene McCarthy Election Headquarters, Fox Plaza, Civic Center Auditorium at left. Chase Hotel at center left, Empire Hotel behind it. McKesson (Aetna Life & Casualty, Montgomery & Market) Building under construction in the distance on right.

Civic Center
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

Powell, Eddy and Market cable car turntable. Cable car #513. People boarding. Mohr's Cafeteria in right background

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View north up Powell. Powell, Eddy and Market cable car turntable. Cable car #515. View Mohr's Cafeteria and Powell Theatre on left. Woolworth's (Flood Building) on right. Fairmont Tower under construction in the distance

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View north up Powell at Powell, Eddy and Market cable car turntable. Cable car #511. Powell Theatre on left, Woolworth's (in Flood Building) on right.

Downtown / Union Square
Post & Powell
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Post & Powell

View south on Powell from Post. Cable car #506 in front of St. Francis Hotel.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Geary
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Powell & Geary

View northeast across the intersection of Powell and Geary. Cable car #505. Union Square and Hotel Plaza in background.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Front
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Market near Front

View northeast across Market toward Front and Fremont. Municipal Railway (Muni) car #1 signed for A-line, refurbished for Muni's 50th anniversary. Embarcadero Freeway in front of Ferry Building. Billboard atop Fife Building. Freeway and most buildings on left have been demolished. IBM store at left, 340 Market.

Financial District
Market & Van Ness
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Market & Van Ness

View east on Market across Van Ness. Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line PCC streetcar #1144 McKesson (Aetna Life & Casualty, Montgomery & Market) Building under construction in the distance on right. McKesson (Aetna Life & Casualty, Montgomery & Market) Building under construction in the distance.

South of Market
Columbus near Greenwich
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Columbus near Greenwich

View northwest from center of Columbus Ave. toward intersection of Mason, Greenwich and Columbus. Cable Car #6 turning onto Mason St. At left, Gran Prix, Olympus Club ('Beach Blanket Babylon' was at this location from November, 1974 to June, 1975), Bimbo's 365 Club. The Cannery, cannery building repurposed as retail and entertainment space in 1973, in far distance. At right, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Doggie Diner at 940 Columbus (with large sign on building beyond).

North Beach
Hyde near Chestnut
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Hyde near Chestnut

View north on Hyde St. from Lombard St. Cable Car #521 ascending Russian Hill, Alcatraz in the distance

Russian Hill
Powell near Sutter
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Powell near Sutter

View north on Powell toward Sutter from Powell Street Cable Car. Sir Frances Drake Hotel (Starlite Roof ), Parsons Optical, San Francisco State College at right. Grace Ball Secretarial College, Sears Fine Foods, Fairmont Hotel Tower at left.

Downtown / Union Square
Mason & Pacific
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Mason & Pacific

Telephoto view north on Mason St, from Pacific. Powell Street cable car at center has just crossed Green.

Russian Hill
California & Powell
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California & Powell

View west on California toward Powell, California St. Cable Car #54 and Fairmont Hotel at right

Nob Hill