Downtown / Union Square

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Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

Bay Bridge Dedication Pageant parade - floats with women

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery & Sutter
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Montgomery & Sutter

Elevated view toward Hunter-Dulin Building, 111 Sutter [37 - Hunter-Dulin Building. Or One-Eleven Sutter Street Bldg. - 24192-4 - Morton]

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Montgomery
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Market near Montgomery

[WPA Album] [3571, 65-3-4425, N-248] Surveyors measuring sidewalk. View east, 605 Market Street on right. Hoffman Grill.

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Grant
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Sutter & Grant

Auto hood and White House department store. Car has 1937 license plate.

Downtown / Union Square
Grant near Sutter
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Grant near Sutter

Child on tricycle viewed through steel mesh of basement elevator in sidewalk. Betty's Frocks at 253 Grant on right.

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Grant near Sutter
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Grant near Sutter

Man walking on sidewalk, viewed through steel mesh of basement elevator in sidewalk. Betty's Frocks at 251 Grant on right.

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Russ Building
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Russ Building

View looking up at Russ Building

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Grant
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Sutter & Grant

View looking up at White House department store

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Call Building
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Call Building

Looking up at Call Building before conversion to Central Tower

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

Men seated on benches at foot of Dewey Monument. Drake Wilshire Hotel in background

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery & Market
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Montgomery & Market

View southwest on Market from across Montgomery. Market Street is decorated for the Golden Gate Bridge Opening Fiesta, May 27-June 2, 1937 with flags, banners and lampposts decorated as redwood trees. Crowds of people on the sidewalk in front of the Crocker Building. Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, Hearst/Examiner Building, Spreckels/Call Building, and Humboldt Bank Building visible across the street.

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Kearny & Geary
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Kearny & Geary

View southwest to approaching northbound Market St. Railway (MSRy) 43-Line #822 on Kearny Street between Market and Geary, 1-man car. Call Building, Kamm Building in background. The Stag in Flannery Building at right. Birdcage traffic signal. Kane's Cafe, Hatter & Webb 36 3rd St., Brilliant the Tailor, background left.

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Humboldt Bank Bldg.
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Humboldt Bank Bldg.

View southeast to California Theatre and Humboldt Bank Building (with Bank of America signage) on Market near 4th St. Call Building at far left being remodeled as Central Tower.

Downtown / Union Square
Call Building
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Call Building

Call Building dome being dismantled during conversion to Central Tower, viewed from Market St.

Downtown / Union Square
Call Building
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Call Building

Call Building dome being dismantled during conversion to Central Tower, viewed from Market St.

Downtown / Union Square
Call Building
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Call Building

Call Building dome being dismantled during conversion to Central Tower, viewed from Market and Grant Ave

Downtown / Union Square
Call Building
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Call Building

Call Building dome being dismantled during conversion to Central Tower, viewed from Market and Grant Ave

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Ellis
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Market & Ellis

Elevated view looking down at the intersection of Market & Ellis Streets. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 21-line streetcar #1741 at center with crowd passing in the crosswalk between cars. Pacific Building at 4th and Market in the background. [1741-21-01 EB on Market at Fourth 1938]

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Market near 5th
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Market near 5th

Washington's Birthday Parade. Elevated view east from middle of street to Army band marching west on Market St. Crowds on sidewalk watching parade. (Possibly 6th Coast Artillery band from Fort Winfield Scott.) On left, College Den, Douglas Building, Flood Building. On right, Hale Bros., Lincoln Building, Emporium.

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

Washington's Birthday Parade. Army band marching west on Market St. Crowds on sidewalk watching parade. (Possibly 6th Coast Artillery band from Fort Winfield Scott.)

Downtown / Union Square