Grant near Geary
View east across Grant to flower stand with shoppers and H. Liebes department store behind.
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Stockton & Geary
Union Square, view northwest from City of Paris department store. Dewey Monument. Plaza Hotel before renovation of facade 450 Sutter under construction.
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Market & Powell
Elevated view southeast across Market Street. Taken from Douglas Building. Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Pacific Building, 'The Light of the Western Stars' playing at the California Theatre. Many streetcars, crowded sidewalks. Flood Building at left.
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Union Square
St. Francis Hotel, Dewey Monument , people on bench
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Union Square
Man on bench feeding pigeons; Plaza Hotel in background
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View from Hunter-Dulin
View East from the Hunter-Dulin Building, Sutter and Montgomery, toward South of Market. Yerba Buena Island in distance. Flatiron Building.
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Downtown Aerial
View northeast from above Market Street near 3rd St. Russ Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, Chronicle Building, Hobart Building, Palace Hotel, Call Building, Ferry Building and Yerba Buena Island.
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Union Square
View north from plaza, L to R: Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Dewey Monument, Fitzhugh Building, 450 Sutter Building. People asleep on grass.
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Financial District Aerial
Looking east towards waterfront and warships at anchor in Bay.
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Powell & Market
[Zan 316 Powell St. Cable car on its turn-table at Powell and Market Sts. San Francisco] View east to Cable Car #513, Flood Building, Owl Drug, Clinton Cafeteria.
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Parade at 4th & Market
View northeast across Market to Shriner's Parade, Roos Bros. store, California Redwood Industry float
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Market near Ellis
President Hoover parade, Fire Dept, Tait's Tavern
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Market near 5th
Elevated view looking View East from near 5th and Market of parade for President Hoover. Flood Building at left.
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Market & Powell
Elevated view east on Market from Powell. Crowds of people on Market Street watching the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine parade for the 1932 Shriners Convention The parade was on July 27, 1932. Mayor Angelo Rossi (with top hat) in the back seat of the white lead car. Ferry Building, Call/Spreckels Building, Humboldt Bank Building (with Bank of America signage) California (later State) Theatre, Pacific Building and The Emporium in the background. Edge of Flood Building at left. (JF)
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Market & Powell
Elevated view southeast across Market to Shriners Parade, Flood building on left, Emporium at right
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Market near Turk
Elevated view north across Market to President Herbert Hoover motorcade. Nitrate. Tait's Tavern, 920 Market, Douglas Building, 908 Market
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Sutter & Kearny
Elevated view southwest corner to long lines of people in front of Eyre Investment Company / Sherman Clay Building (George Applegarth, architect, completed 1907). Building stands in 2021, with decorative marquees and windows removed, ground floor facade sheathed in brown stone. Hart, Schaffner & Marx clothing, Post Street Streetcar #712. Birdcage traffic signal. [44944]
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Market & Kearny
Aerial view of crowd at Lotta's Fountain. Demonstration for National Recovery Act (NRA). Army band and two army flatbed trucks that read NRA. Chronicle Building at left. 8-line, 9-line, and K-line streetcars.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Kearny
View steeply down to crowd of mostly men wearing hats gathered at and on Lotta's Fountain; army band on street to right of trucks may be 30th Infantry band, which had been assigned to rally duty; three army flatbed trucks with bullhorns atop, and signs that read 'NRA'. Chronicle Bldg at left (with Dr. Willett Chiropractor, Florsheim Shoes, Superior Fountain Lunch). 8-Kine, K-Line and 9-Line streetcars. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
View SW toward Dewey Monument. St Francis Hotel. People sitting on benches.
Downtown / Union Square