Downtown / Union Square

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Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View north to crowd waiting to board cable car at turnaround. Woolworths in Flood Building at right #514, last original Mahoney body, scrapped in 1963.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Geary
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Powell & Geary

View North on Powell from Geary, St. Francis Hotel on left, Fitzhugh Building (demolished) at right, Union Square, Cable Car #512

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Eddy
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Powell & Eddy

Looking west. Building demolished for plaza. SF Muni Cable Car #505

Downtown
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

Powell-Hyde cable car #517 at turntable with crowd, including children preparing to board. Hotel Golden State, Woolworth's.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell near Geary
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Powell near Geary

View north on Powell from Geary. St. Francis Hotel and Chancellor Hotel at left. Sir Francis Drake Hotel and Fitzhugh Building at right (2 X 2 transparency)

Downtown / Union Square
Powell near Geary
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Powell near Geary

View north on Powell from Geary. St. Francis Hotel and Chancellor Hotel at left. Sir Francis Drake Hotel and Fitzhugh Building at right (2 X 2 transparency)

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

KPTV ABC television camera set up on tripod in Union Square. KPTV bus with additional camera crews on roof. St. Francis Hotel in background.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 5th
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Market near 5th

Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis (future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson ( Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player)

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis (future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson ( Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player and civil rights activist)

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis (future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson (Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player)

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Jackie Robinson and Reverend Hamilton Boswell at center.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Mason St.
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Market near Mason St.

Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis ( future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson ( Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player)

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

Civil Rights March; Among the Marchers, Reverend Hamilton Boswell

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Stockton
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Market & Stockton

View across Market from about Stockton Street A line of Municipal Railway (Muni) PCC streetcars. including #1158 L-Line. Humboldt Bank Building (Bank of America) and Paris Theatre. Most buildings on the south side of Market here now demolished.

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

Large Eiffel Tower model in Square. Billboards for 'Jet BOAC' and 'Fly TWA Jets.'

Downtown / Union Square
Nob Hill
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Nob Hill

Elevated view northwest from Sir Francis Drake Hotel to Nob Hill. Mark Hopkins Hotel at center. Fairmont Hotel with tower addition.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & New Montgomery
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Market & New Montgomery

5-line trolley Coach #614 outbound. Palace Hotel in the background at right.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Powell
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Market & Powell

President LBJ campaigns in SF: motorcade passing Emporium

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 5th
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Market near 5th

Civil Rights March; View from center of Market St. east to head of procession. Flood Building, Woolworths, Zukor's, Grayson's, Emporium. [SF Examiner]

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 5th
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Market near 5th

Civil Rights March; View east to front of procession. Nelson Rockefeller, Henry Cabot Lodge. Flood Building, Emporium. [SF Examiner]

Downtown / Union Square