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View southeast from crosswalk to F Streetcar #21, Central Tower (Call Building), Portola Theatre, Humboldt Bank Building, California Theatre (Renamed State Theatre in 1941), Diamond Palace in background. Red Cross flag on streetcar and Red Cross banners hanging above Market.
Downtown / Union Square
View east from center of Market to Muni C-Line #662 with wings livery, Chronicle Building at left with Hymans Leasing and Peck Judah, Crocker Building beyond. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #262 renumbered #662 after the 1944 merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni unit #262.)
Downtown / Union Square
View northeasterly across Market to Muni L-Line #173 with wings livery and Red Cross flag. Crocker Building (demolished 1966) at left. Red Cross banner over street.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Market to Muni L-Line #175 with wings livery. Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building with California Savings & Loan in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View East from inside car on Market. Roos Brothers store, Phelan Building, Muni bus #0408. Hartfield's. Mutual Savings Bank, Hobart and Cental Tower Buildings in background. Red, white and blue banners with rectangular pattern strung above street.
Downtown / Union Square
View east from center of Market St to Bankers Investment Building with Eagleson's, Lundstrom Hats, Bank of America, Mutual Savings Bank, Flannery Building with Painless Parker dentist, Chronicle Building, Crocker Building, Hobart Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop, Ferry Building, Examiner Building, Central Tower (former Call Building), Dr. E.F. Lazarus Optometrist, Seven Eleven Restaurant, Morris Plan in remodeled Kamm Building, Progressive Optical, Silver Palace Theatre in Bancroft Building showing 'Homicide'. Schwabacher-Frey. Decorative flags strung above street.
Downtown / Union Square
View north from center of Kearny Street. Young's, Bond Clothiers, Sutter Hotel, Sherman Clay & Co., Pauson & Co. Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
View North up Grant from across Market, cars and pedestrians. Roberts Furs, White House department store, H. Liebes, Union Trust Building (Wells Fargo Bank) at right.
Downtown / Union Square
View west on Market Street toward 4th Street. State Theatre (showing 'House of Frankenstein' and 'House of Dracula' for Halloween) at left, banners advertising the Grand National Livestock Exposition and Rodeo (Don't miss the West's Greatest Show). Flood Building and Roos Bros at right, Pacific Building, Emporium at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated night view southeast over retail district to South of Market, from the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Union Square, City of Paris, I. Magnin, Whittell Building. Howard Building (Head Building), Phelan Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Central Tower (former Call Building), Pacific Telephone Building, In distance left, Union 76 clock tower on Bay Bridge approach.
Downtown / Union Square
F-Line streetcar coming out of the Stockton Tunnel on its way to the Southern Pacific Depot.
Downtown / Union Square
View east across Powell to turntable and Cable Car #522, Washington & Jackson Streets.
Downtown / Union Square
View south on Stockton toward Market, Muni F-Line streetcar #37 (service on the F-line ended after January 1951)
Downtown / Union Square
Muni, F-Line, #36, City of Paris
Downtown / Union Square
Cable Car #508, Flood building
Downtown / Union Square
Powell St. Cable Car #515 after being pushed off turntable. Flood Building in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Geary to B-Line Market Street Railway #147, City of Paris and I. Magnin department stores in background. Linen Palace.
Downtown / Union Square
Turntable; Cable Car #502; Flood Building ground floor being altered
Downtown / Union Square
View east to Muni (SFMR) B-line streetcar car #145 with wings livery and Red Cross flag. de Young / Chronicle Building, Palace Hotel. Sign on streetcar for Club Hangover, which opened in the late 1940's and was the premier traditional jazz venue in San Francisco during the 1950's. Signs on buildings for Florsheim Shoes, Peck-Judah, Greyhound Bus. Club Hangover ad on bus.
Downtown / Union Square
Looking west; long exposure night shot; Admission Day Centennial decorations. Pacific Building, Emporium, Roos Bros., Feltman & Curme shoes.
Downtown / Union Square