Union Square
The Belgian Market event in Union Square. View northeast toward Post and Stockton. Crowd of people, tents, and decorations around the Dewey Monument. ( photo appeared in the SF Examiner April 9, 1916, front page)
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Lotta's Fountain
[Frisco April 14, 1916] View north from Market Street down Grant to two men, one wearing a turban, standing in front of Lotta's Fountain. Geary streetcar in background.
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Stockton & Sutter
View north across Sutter to South tunnel portal. Hotel Colonial, Stockton Garage. At upper right, Hotel Victoria, built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel. Market St. Railway Co. (MSRy) E-Line car. Stockton St. Tunnel Frisco April 14, 1916]
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Kearny & Sutter
['Traffic Cop' Frisco April 14 / 1916] View northwest across intersection. Clothing store, Joy's Drugs at Kearny & Bush.
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Market near 4th
[We are marching up Market St ... in a parade for the 'Liberty Boys.'] Elevated view south across Market St. to sailors in marching band in formation. Probably the Draft Day Parade of September 21, 1917 honoring 1,571 military draftees departing for WWI. Bohemian Cafe, Portola Theatre playing Elsie Ferguson in 'Barbary Sheep'.
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Market & 3rd
Elevated view east on Market toward intersection with 3rd Street. World War I Military Recruitment Parade happening on the north side of Market. Streetcars lined up on the south side. Metropolis Bank Building, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, and Hearst Examiner Building, left to right. Banner hanging across the street reads 'Enlist Now'
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Market & Kearny
View west across Market to intersection of Market St, Geary and Kearny St. to United Railroads 4-line streetcar #1656. Magee Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Flannery Building (with J.Edlin Merchant Tailor, Chas. H. Strub Dentist, Gallenkamp Shoes and M.A. Gunst), Bankers Investment Building (1912) Chronicle Building with clock on corner over entry, Dr. Tambling, Dr. Goodnight dentists. Lotta's Fountain. [1656-04A-01 Market Street 1911][Market, Third & Kearney (Sic)]
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Market & Stockton
Elevated view southeast down Market to large military parade during World War I, likely on the occasion of the arrival of Japan's envoy, Viscount Ishii KikujirÅ. Some 3,000 troops escorted him to City Hall from the Embarcadero. Roos Bros. Department Store, Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Portola Theater with Billie Burke in The Mysterious Miss Terry. California Theatre, which opened on November 1, 1917, in late stages of construction at 4th and Market.
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Fifth & Market
View east to Douglas Building, Flood building, Emporium, Humboldt Bank Building, and Call Building in distance; The Wonder Millinery at 930 Market on left. Lincoln Building at right.
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Grant & Market
[55.] View northeast from center of Market to parade of volunteers for World War I; 'Battery A, The Grizzlies, We are going to camp. Still Recruiting Good Men. 210 Montgomery St.'; Union Trust Bank on left. The Grizzlies were the Second California Field Artillery.
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Casino Theatre
198 Ellis at Mason St. Opened April 8, 1917. Later to become the Downtown Theatre and demolished in 1952.
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Kearny, Geary, & Market
Chronicle Building on left, Palace Hotel and Monadnock Building across Market, Muni B-Line streetcar #76, westbound on Geary
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Market near 4th
Parade with truck full of nurses, view south toward 4th Street intersection.
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4th & Market
Elevated view southeast across Market to Red Cross nurses in Parade on Market Street, crowds lining street; California Theatre, Humboldt Savings Bank; Call Building in background. Pacific Building at right. [The Great Parade on ....1917]
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Market near 5th
Elevated view, Market east from 5th, Flood Building on left, 9 Valencia #1600 outbound [dpwbook18 dpw4055]
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Market near 5th
Elevated View (from the top of a streetcar) east on Market toward 5th Street, which intersects at right. Showing pedestrian, automobile, streetcar, and horse traffic. [dpwbook18 dpw4054]
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Geary & Powell
Looking east at Whittell building, Union Square, Dewey Monument, automobiles
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Market near Powell
View East on Market from Powell, New tracks on Market Street [dpwbook22 dpw5322]
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Market near 4th
View east on Market Street near 4th and Stockton, workers, people, and streetcars pass as track construction happens. [dpwbook22 dpw5345]
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Market near Grant
View east on Market Street at Grant and O'Farrell during streetcar track construction. Mutual Savings Bank and Hobart Buildings visible in distance. tracks MSRy 21-line passing [dpwbook22 dpw5347]
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