Union Square
Looking East to Dewey Monument, Hotel Plaza, Russ Building
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O'Farrell & Market
View east on O'Farrell to Muni Cable Car #51 at Grant Ave terminal. Morris Plan in Kamm building with modern facade, Progressive Optical, Hub Theatre in Bancroft Building (1908), Schwabacher-Frey stationery, Greyhound ticket office, Grant Market, Pacific States Savings and Loan. Birdcage traffic signal.
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Montgomery near Post
View north to Equitable Life Insurance Building under construction at northeast corner of Sutter Street. Construction began in October 1953 and was completed in June 1955. (TA) Delos C. Butts watch repair at 35 Montgomery. Standard Oil Building background right.
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Market near 3rd
View southeast across Market toward 3rd Street at dusk. Owl Drug, Morris Plan Company in Kamm Building with modern facade, Carl Wilke Cafeteria, Progressive Optical, Central Tower (Call Building), and Examiner/Hearst Building.
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Powell near Geary
View Northerly on Powell between Geary and O'Farrell toward Union Square. Cable Car #501 inbound toward market
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O'Farrell & Market
View southeast to Cable Car #53 at end of line. Hub Theatre, Stanford Jewelers, Schwabacher-Frey, Greyhound, Grant Market and Pacific States Savings and Loan Co. Corner of Phelan Building at right. Banners strung over Market Street. Birdcage traffic signal.
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Powell & Geary
View northeast across intersection to Union Square. Powell St. cable car #527 at left. Hotel Plaza, Old Grand-Dad billboard. Birdcage traffic signal.
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Powell & Sutter
View uphill towards Nob Hill. Powell Street Cable Car
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Powell & Market
Turntable w/Washington & Jackson Cable Car, Looking North
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O'Farrell & Market
Hyde, Jones & O'Farrell cable car #53 at terminus
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St. Francis Hotel
Geary Street and Union Square in foreground
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Union Square
Elevated view southeast from United Airlines Building (former Argonaut Club) at Powell & Post. Lighting on trees for Salvation Army Tree of Lights campaign. Whittell Building, City of Paris, I. Magnin, Macy's, Blum's, Werner's, Dohrmann's, Western Air Lines, Union Pacific Railroad office with very large billboard on roof. Birdcage traffic signals. Gray Line bus. (AS)
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Stockton & Geary
View northwest past cable car themed Flower Stand on Stockton. Union Square, Fitzhugh Building, Plaza Hotel, 450 Sutter Building, St. Francis and Sir Francis Drake Hotels in background. Birdcage traffic signal.
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Union Square
View west across plaza to garage entrance, Dewey Monument, St. Francis Hotel.
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Maiden Lane
View east from near Stockton. At the end of the street you can see the Metropolis Bank building (1908). V.C. Morris Store (Frank Lloyd Wright, architect) at left. Union Square Cocktails, Junipero Serra Shop.
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Stockton & Geary
View east across Stockton to flower vendor with cable car themed flower stand outside City of Paris. Sheraton Palace Hotel in background left.
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Powell near Geary
View southwest from Union Square to Elkan Gunst Building (with Air France signage and billboard on roof) with Milton F. Kries restaurant and cosmetics, Techau Tavern. Manx Hotel, Crane Hotel. The Elkan Gunst Building was completed in 1907 by cigar dealer, champagne wholesaler, and former police commissioner Moses A. Gunst, and named after his son. The Hotel Crane was built in 1909 as the Goodfriend Hotel. The Manx Hotel was built by George D. Toy, completed and opened Oct. 1, 1908. Toy grew up in a house on this lot after Daniel Toy, their father, moved the family there in the early 1850s when the area was still known as St. Ann's Valley.(PF) At far right 333 Geary Building (former St. Francis Theater, later Lefty O'Doul's) with Gene Compton's Restaurant. Birdcage traffic signals.
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Market near Stockton
View east on Market between Stockton and Powell, Anglo Bank Building at left, Roos Brothers, and Phelan Building. Hobart Building in the distance. (Part of Kodachrome Stereo)
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Union Square
View northeast across Geary Street toward Union Square. Dewey Monument, Hotel Plaza in the background. (Part of Kodachrome Stereo)
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Union Square
View north across Geary Street toward Union Square. Dewey Monument, Hotel Plaza in the background. (Part of Kodachrome Stereo)
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