Powell near Sutter
South on Powell toward Sutter. Union Square, bleachers for Portola festival. Cable Cars and streetcars
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Post near Kearny
View east on Post to approaching United Railroads streetcar #803. Alfred Lilienfeld & Co. store on left, Bullock & Jones at right. Balboa Building at 2nd and Market in distance center. Crocker Building, Mechanics Institute to right of center.
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Union Square
Celebration with crowds of people and Army band in Union Square [King and Queen at Union Square] Probably 1909 Portola Festival. Soldiers are wearing pre-1911 hats.
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St. Francis Hotel
Elevated view west across Union Square toward the St. Francis Hotel.
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Union Square
Looking east across square toward Stockton Street. Decorated for the Portola Festival. Maiden Lane (originally Morton St) at right.
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Kearny & Post
View northwest across intersection of Post and Kearny to 101 Kearny. Alfred Lilienfeld and Co. men's furnishings store decorated for the Portola Festival.
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Kearny & Post
View at night northwest across intersection of Post and Kearny toward 101 Kearny. Alfred Lilienfeld and Co. men's furnishings store brightly illuminated and decorated for the Portola Festival.
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Market Street Night
Decorated for the Portola Festival. C.F. Adams Company, 942 Market at left, The Emporium and Humboldt Bank in the distance at right.
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Market near Geary
Portola festival lights looking west on Market, Call Building in background left, illuminated Humboldt Bank Building beyond. Flannery Building with P.H. McCarthy for Mayor electric sign on top.
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Kearny near Geary
View south on Kearny to electrical decorations for Portola Festival October 19-23, 1909. Korn Hats, 15 Kearny in Johann Schmidt Building on right, Flannery Building beyond.
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Union Square
Portola Fiesta, San Francisco. Elevated view west to king and queen of Portola Festival on horseback in a dense crowd, St. Francis Hotel.
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Grant & Market
Union Trust Building, looking east to Call Building and Hearst Building (under construction). [Union Trust Co. of S.F. , No 7483?]
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Powell & Post
Elevated view northeast over Union Square from St. Francis Hotel. Crowds assembled for Portola Festival. Grandstand set up in empty lot at northeast corner Powell & Post, former Trinity Church site. Temple Emanu-El in background showing post-earthquake changes to steeples. Union Square Building at right. Some of the ten 40-foot carp banners donated by George Shima on behalf of the San Francisco Japanese community at right. [511]
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Powell & Market
Portola Festival Parade crowd. Newman College bar behind and Flood Building on right. [G57 SPA-018] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Bush & Powell
View northeast across intersection past United Railroads cable car #513 on Washington-Jackson route in front of Kenilworth Apartments, built 1907, architects Sutton & Weeks. To its right, Beck Apartments, built 1909, architects Cunningham & Politeo. Both apartment buildings still stand in 2023. [The Kenilworth. N. E. Cor. Bush and Powell St.]
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Powell & O'Farrell
View north across intersection to Manx, Goodfriend, Stratford and St. Francis hotels. John R. Sievers florist on ground floor of Manx Hotel on northwest corner (Villa Florence Hotel in 2022). Elkan Gunst Building at southwest corner of Geary and Powell. Early automobiles, carriage and horses. See wnp33.03292, probably taken at same time.
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O'Farrell near Powell
View northwest across O'Farrell. Building with coffee sign at far right built 1906 (Salfield & Kohlberg, architects), extant in 2022 with 1933 Art Deco remodeled facade. John R. Sievers florist on ground floor of Manx Hotel on northwest corner (Villa Florence Hotel in 2022). Hotel Gloster (later Hotel Virginia and San Francisco Downtown Hostel in 2022), Rathjen Bros. Groceries and Liquors in distance on left. At right, Keiner's Liquors, 198 O'Farrell, with swing out electric sign. Buildings in view all still stand in 2022
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Market & Powell
View east to Humboldt Bank and Call Buildings. Western National Bank in Flood Bldg at left. People passing, 5-line and 7-line streetcars. [5564 Powell and Market streets Feb 1909] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
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Union Square
St. Francis Hotel at night decorated for the Portola Festival, Union Square in foreground
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Market near 4th
Night view looking east on Market Street decorated for the Portola Festival showing the Humboldt Bank Building at right, Roos Bros, and Bismark cars
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