Market near Grant
Portola Festival parade with float carrying model of aircraft carrier. 'Your Navy Victor in War' Lundstrom Hat Store at 720 Market behind.
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Market near Stockton
Portola Festival parade. Cowgirl riding pony. Behind, Behind, National Shirt Shops at 768 Market.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Grant
Portola Festival parade with float of U.S. Army Transport steamship 'San Francisco Port of Embarkation.' Farber's Jewelers on second floor. Entrance was at 33 Grant Ave.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
Portola Festival parade with line of Coast Guard vehicles: helicopter, boat on trailer, and amphibious vehicle (called a 'duck'). Lundstrom Hat Store, United Trust Bank building.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Grant
Portola Festival parade float with festival queen Ann Bucher, 'Queen for a Day' radio program winner Dorothy Young, and assorted maids in waiting. Lundstrom Hats at 720 Market in background
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Stockton
Portola Festival parade San Francisco Naval Shipyard float with man in Portola costume with horse model and banner reading 'Don Portola Should Have Had A Radar.' Behind, National Shirt Shops at 768 Market.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Stockton
Portola Festival parade. Naval Supply Center Oakland float with model of USS Portsmouth at sea approaching land. Behind, National Shirt Shops at 768 Market.
Downtown / Union Square
Stockton & Market
Elevated view easterly on Market toward Stockton and 4th. Parade of Municipal Railway buses (led by heavily festooned bus) celebrating the replacement of streetcars on the 5-McAllister and 21-Hayes streetcar lines. State (former California) Theatre, Portola Theatre, Diamond Palace, Taverne Bon Gout, Roos Bros. on left [RS1146 California as State CAL-033 3 June 1948 Muni Buses]
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Fifth
View southwest across Market to Muni K-Line outbound, Hale Bros., United Luggage, banners over street for Portola Festival.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near New Montgomery
View southeast across Market to Muni C-Line #606 with "Enlist Now - The New Regular Army" signage on side. In background, Palace Hotel (with Northern Pacific Yellowstone Park line office), Metropolis Bank Building with Bank of America branch, Balboa Building, Santa Fe building/West Coast Life Insurance, Fack's night club, Pig 'N Whistle cafe. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #206 renumbered #606 after the 1944 merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni unit #206.)
Downtown / Union Square
Market at Mason
View southeast caross intersection to westbound L-Line Muni Magic Carpet streetcar #1002 with wings livery. Market Street decorated for the Portola Festival. J.C. Penney store, Hale Bros., Emporium, Humboldt Bank Building with Bank of America sign on top, Central Tower (Call Building). Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
Sutter near Powell
Elevated view down to Sutter between Mason & Powell. View west. Streetcar with zip stripe livery, House of Harris, Hotel Regent.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Kearny
Portola Festival - Shriners marching down street
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
Portola Festival - Spectators on Market and Grant in front 744 Market St.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
Portola Festival - Spectators on Market and Grant , Chinese Americans with cameras
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
View east from center of Market to Portola Festival Majorette with parade behind. Union Trust Building at far left, Chronicle, Crocker and Hobart buildings beyond. Palace Hotel, Monadnock, Examiner and Call Buildings on south side of street, right.
Downtown / Union Square
Market Street
Portola Festival - Spectators (Children) girl on stool
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Annie
Portola Festival Queen Ann Bucher and TV "Queen For A Day" Dorothy Young on float passing Palace Hotel
Downtown / Union Square
Downtown Aerial
Union Square, Financial District, Ferry Building, Transbay Terminal (Section 034 of 190 - 1948 Aerial Survey of San Francisco) (A larger version of this image has been provided to and can be seen at the David Rumsey Map Collection)
Financial District
South of Market Aerial
Union Square, Transbay Terminal, Bay Bridge Approach (Section 035 of 190 - 1948 Aerial Survey of San Francisco) (A larger version of this image has been provided to and can be seen at the David Rumsey Map Collection)
South of Market