California & Grant
Boy on California Street; looking east to Financial District, shadow of photographer. Hotel Lafayette, Clunie Building, Merchants Exchange in background. St. Mary's Square at right.
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Grant near California
Chinatown, view north from center of Grant. Sing Fat & Sing Chong Buildings. Stained glass globe street lamps in front of Sing Fat. West side of Old St. Mary's Church, United Import Co. [Burton Photo Album]
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Grant Avenue & Pine
Chinatown. View north on Grant from center of intersection. Shanghai Low restaurant. Sing Fat and Sing Chong Buildings in distance. [Burton Photo Album]
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Grant near Washington
Chinatown. View south from center of Grant Avenue. At far left, Son Loy & Co., 932 Grant. [Burton Photo Album]
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Grant & Sacramento
Chinatown. View south on Grant. Sing Fat and Sing Chong Buildings at California St. corner. In center distance signs on Grand View Hotel and Tea Garden, Grant and Pine, opened April, 1922. [Burton Photo Album]
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Grant Ave near Vinton Ct
Chinatown. Grant Avenue between Pine and California, looking north. Sing Chong and Sing Fat Buildings, Shanghai Low Restaurant. Stained glass globe lamps in front of Sing Fat. [Burton Photo Album]
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Grant near California
Chinatown. View north on Grant Ave between Pine & California. Shanghai Low restaurant. Sing Fat Co., Sing Chong Co. Chinese Bazaar on left. Stained Glass street light globes.
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Grant & Sacramento
View south across intersection to Old St. Mary's Church in background
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Grant & Pine
View east on Pine near Grant. Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), before addition of northern wing. Top of Merchant's Exchange Building, background left. Crown Hotel, 538 Pine, later site of St. Mary's Square Garage. Matson Building with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Building under construction, completed 1925, in the background (Market between Main & Beale)
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California & Grant
View northwest across California St. to Cable Car in intersection. Leesmont Apartments (790 California, Stone & Smith architects, built 1916 still stands 2022). Sing Chong Building.
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Pine near Kearny
Elevated view southeast over new Pacific Telephone Co. main office construction site at 430-444 Bush Street to buildings on south side of Bush Street. St. George Garage (Wm. Saunders, prop.) with Goodrich Tires advertisement on east side. The no longer existing St. Anne Street runs through the site and was removed for this project. Hobart Building in distance left. Buildings on the south side of Bush Street still stand 2021. 8 story building at left is the Charleston Building (Albert Pissis architect, 1908), white building to its right is the San Francisco Press Club Building (Henry Hedger architect, 1908), at far right Pacific States Telephone Building (A.A. Cantin architect, 1905). [San Francisco, California New Main Office Progress - 06-28-24]
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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.
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Waverly near Clay
Chinatown. View north on Waverly Place. Signs on building at left "Oldest Joss House. Visitors Welcome" and "Tin How Temple".
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Grant and Pine
View north on Grant from Pine, Shanghai Low restaurant, Sing Chong and Sing Fat Buildings in distance. [My own picture of Chinatown, Grant Avenue in order to show lamp post and dragons.]
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Washington near Grant
Elevated view across Washington to fireworks and Lion Dance ceremony in front of Chinatown Exchange, also called the Chinese Telephone Exchange Building. Police officers holding back crowd.
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Grant near California
View south on Grant toward California Street to two well-dressed women and a 1925 Cleveland auto. 'Sing Fat Co' building in background, Sing Chong Building at right. Dragon streetlamps and globe streetlights.
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Grant near California
View north on Grant between California and Sacramento. Sacramento Street cable car passing in the background. [Chinatown - Grant Ave.]
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Grant near California
View north on Grant between California and Sacramento. Sacramento Street cable car passing in the background. [Chinatown - Grant Ave.] [Chinatown - Grant Ave.]
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Grant & California
Chinatown. View southwest across intersection to Sing Fat Co., dragon streetlamps.
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Grant and California, looking north, Old Saint Mary's on right, cable car in background. Dragon streetlamps dedicated September, 1925.
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