Glide Church
View north on Taylor to sailor posing. Glide Memorial Methodist Church, Californian Hotel, northwest corner of O'Farrell and Taylor, in background left.
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Market & Beale
Night view west on Market across Beale. Neon signs, streetlights, and the Shell Building illuminated at top right
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4th & Market
View southeast across Market to Muni N Judah Streetcar #1008 with wings livery, Portola and State Theaters in background. Diamond Palace Credit Jewelers with large electric clock. Birdcage traffic signals.
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1st St & Market
Muni L-Line #1026 with wings livery, looking north on First Street toward Bush, Battery, Market intersection. Shell Building, Union Carbide in Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect), in background left.
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Twin Peaks looking east
Market Street/ Russ Building/City Hall/U.S. Mint/Bay Bridge
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Emporium
Interior Rotunda, dome, balcony with clock.
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Lotta's Fountain
View northwest across Market to Kearny, Geary intersection. Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle Building at right( with Dr. Willett Chiropractor, Security Finance Co., W & H Cigars Liquor signs). Buildings on west side of Kearny include 2 Geary Building (with Granville's Jewelers), Schmidt Building (with Pastine's Restaurant), Baldwin Building (with O.P.O. Clothes), Oscar Luning Building (with Brooks Camera).
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Phelan Building
View west toward O'Farrell from across Market. Union Trust Building at right.
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View from Buena Vista Park
View east from Buena Vista Park to Civic Center, Downtown, Bay Bridge and East Bay hills. S-P sign atop Southern Pacific Building was installed March 1954 and removed in September 1961.
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Union Square
View northeast across Geary to plaza, garage entrance, Hotel Plaza, Hotel Drake Wiltshire, Fred Benioff.
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Cable Car Turnaround
View west to Powell and Market terminus and Cable Car #526, Bank of America with large electric clock sign above entrance.
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Market at 1st
Preparing site for Crown Zellerbach Building. Hobart Building; Hunter Dulin Building; Equitable Building in background.
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Powell & Market
Cable car turntable. Woolworth's on right. Commercial Slide, MUNI #501
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Powell & Market
Cable car turntable, Washington & Jackson line, MUNI #516
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Union Square
View from St Francis Hotel looking east. Post Street and Plaza Hotel at left.
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California & Kearny
View east down California to California Street Cable Car #53 about to cross Kearny. Southern Pacific Building (later One Market) in distance with sign atop. At far left, Home Insurance Company Building (around this time, Fireman's Fund) completed 1951 and demolished in 1983. Empty lot with pedestrian safety structure at 550 California, site of Occidental Life Insurance Co. Building, completed 1960. Financial Center Building (1927) downhill from construction site. Scaffolding around Kohl Building. Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on side.
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Union Square
Little Girl with hundreds of pigeons, Dewey Monument
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Union Square
View north across the square toward Post Street, Hotel Plaza in the background right. People on benches, Plaza Hotel (poor scan off center)
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Post near Stockton
Flower Stand with curved canvas roof on north side of Post St. Downtown Union Square area. (Probably Hoogasian Flowers). Barra of Italy (245 Post) across street.
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Downtown Skyline
Taken from Sir Francis Drake Hotel. View east toward bay.
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