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View from 5th & Mission
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View from 5th & Mission

Elevated view east on Mission. Buildings on right demolished for parking garage. Hotel Del Mar, Evergreen California Hat Co., Evergreen Ladies Hats, 827 Mission, Pacific Telephone Building in distance center. [Mission St. east from Pickwick Hotel] [dpwbook47 dpwA2623]

South of Market
View S from Sutro Heights
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View S from Sutro Heights

[Great Highway] [dpwbook47 dpwA2621] Playland at the Beach, windmills, Great Highway, Ocean Beach, Lurline Pier

Sutro Heights
Market & 6th roof view
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Market & 6th roof view

Elevated view down Market Street East from Hewes Building, Admission Day Native Sons Monument, Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Davies Theatre, Bank of America Headquarters (One Powell), Flood Building, Humboldt Bank Building with Bank of America signage, Kress, Hale Bros. building with KPO radio tower on roof, 4 streetcar tracks[Market Street from Hewes Building] [dpwbook47 dpwA2622] Ferry Building in distance

Tenderloin
Portola & Twin Peaks Blvd
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Portola & Twin Peaks Blvd

View east on Portola Drive near the intersection of Twin Peaks Boulevard. Future Diamond Heights in the background. Men working on concrete forms for sidewalk and curb. Twin Peaks Boulevard rising in the background left. [Portola Drive E. from Twin Peaks Blvd.][dpwbook37 dpwA2279]

Midtown Terrace
San Jose near Mt. Vernon
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San Jose near Mt. Vernon

View east on San Jose Avenue near Mt. Vernon Street. Showing the bridge over the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Mt. Davidson, Diamond Heights, and Bernal Heights in the background. [San Jose Bridge][dpwbookBRIDGES II dpw10414]

Oceanview
3rd & Channel
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3rd & Channel

View southwest from the top of the warehouse toward the 3rd Street Bridge (now Lefty O'Doul Bridge) and China Basin. This view can be approximated in 2021 from the Giants Ballpark. Potrero Hill in the distance. [3rd & Channel Sts. bridge looking south] [dpwbookSPECIMP16 dpwA3730]

South Beach
Market from 6th
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Market from 6th

Elevated view from the David Hewes Building 995 Market at 6th Street (at the time known as the Western States Life Building) Paramount Theatre, City Hall, Empire Hotel, Twin Peaks in the distance.[Market W from 6th dpwbook48 dpwA2508]

South of Market
Holladay & Peralta
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Holladay & Peralta

View north on Holladay toward Peralta showing new paving and guardrail improvements. Potrero Hill in the background. [Holladay at Peralta to Potrero Hill dpwbookSPECIMP16 dpwA2522]

Peralta Heights
Valley & Castro
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Valley & Castro

View West on Valley Street from Castro [Valley 200 feet W from Castro (kids) dpwbook32 dpw8559]

Noe Valley
23rd & Carolina
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23rd & Carolina

View east uphill on unpaved, ungraded 23rd Street from Carolina Street. 1922 and 1920 23rd Street at left still stand (2021). [Easterly showing Intersection 23rd & Carolina Sts. dpwbookXXX dpwA1964]

Potrero Hill
Mission near Trumbull
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Mission near Trumbull

View north on Mission from Trumball, workers repaving the Mission Viaduct. St John the Evangelist Catholic Church (1893), St. John's School (1910, later demolished) and St. John's Ursuline Convent (1916) in distance left. St. Mary's Park neighborhood at right, Holly Park and Junipero Serra Elementary School beyond. [Repaving Mission viaduct dpwbook48 dpw10531]

Mission Terrace
Mission near Trumbull
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Mission near Trumbull

View north on Mission from Trumbull, workers repaving the Mission Viaduct. [Repaving Mission viaduct dpwbook48 dpw10532]

Mission Terrace
Mission near Trumbull
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Mission near Trumbull

View north on Mission from Trumbull, workers repaving the Mission Viaduct. St John the Evangelist Catholic Church (1893), St. John's School (1910, later demolished) and St. John's Ursuline Convent (1916) in distance left. Holly Park and Junipero Serra Elementary School in distance right. [Repaving Mission viaduct dpwbook48 dpw10533]

Mission Terrace
Laguna Honda Hospital
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Laguna Honda Hospital

[relief home (Sutro forest) dpwbook48 dpw10534] View from Edgehill

Laguna Honda
Market & Van Ness
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Market & Van Ness

Elevated view southwest from roof of building across intersection. Civic Center Hotel in background right. [Van Ness/Market dpwbook48 dpw10371]

Civic Center