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General Douglas MacArthur Parade, Elevated view easterly toward the intersection of Market , Post, & Montgomery. Crocker Building at the top, Hobart Building at right. Parade traveling down Post and turning onto Market.
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Looking east, Ferry Building; 21-Line trolley bus #623 'Welcome to San Francisco sign' on Ferry Building (replaced 1951). Hotel Terminal, Sea Horse Restaurant. Birdcage traffic signal. The two cars visible have both the older 1947 yelow license plate and the new black 1951 plate, making the date early 1951 before the Ferry Building sign was changed.
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136 - 142 Embarcadero, built 1907, housed the Emerson Drug Co., Sea Cliff Cafe, Naval Uniforms store, and prominent Bromo-Seltzer sign, flanked by two hotels. All three structures are extant, though altered. Embarcadero Cafe at left, 144 Embarcadero.
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575 Mission Street was home to the Continental Merchandise Company. It and the surrounding structures have all been demolished.
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View south across Mission to 545 Mission, constructed in 1906-7, the first major commercial loft building constructed in the South of Market after the 1906 Earthquake. Designed by architect Henry A. Schultze for the Greenwood Estate, to house their Pacific Coast Paper Company. Photo taken after facade was modernized in 1950 by Hertzka & Knowles architects. Tenants in 1951: Ken Edwards, Weil-Kalter Co., Leisenring Printing Co., Andre Paper Box Co., and Arnell of California. Ets-Hokin & Galvan (electrical contractors) in 551 Mission at right. All buildings in view except 545 Mission have been demolished and Shaw Alley at left has been converted to pedestrian use.(AS)
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Ike in motorcade on California street and Leidesdorff Alley, looking east, Governor Warren in car. At far left Mercantile Trust Co. Building (1903,Albert Pissis, Architect), American Trust Company (originally the London and San Francisco Bank, built in 1873-1874), Bank of California, Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects) in distance. In center distance, Southern Pacific Building and Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop. At right, Merchants Exchange Building, Insurance Exchange Building (433 California), Fireman's Fund Insurance Company Building, J. Harold Dollar (Balfour) Building (351 California) and Robert Dollar Building in distance (built 1910, expanded in 1919).
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Elevated view east on California to President Dwight D. Eisenhower ('Ike') in motorcade on California at Sansome street, waving to big crowd. In background from left, Alaska Commercial Building, Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop, Robert Dollar and J. Harold Dollar (formerly Balfour). Buildings. Birdcage traffic signals.
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Motorcade at Montgomery and Market, confetti huge crowd
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Motorcade on California Street (camera movement)
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Motorcade on Montgomery Street near Pine with confetti
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View east on Market from California. Municipal Railway (Muni) Cable Car #15, Weinstein Co., Club 98, Hotel Terminal, Ferry Building in the background
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View northwest across intersection toward Market, Municipal Railway (Muni) C-line streetcar #47 with wings livery turning from Market onto 1st. Shell Building in the background. Buildings on left have since been demolished. (blurry, film capture)[04. Car 47 on 'C' Line at 1st & Market]
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View west on California from Sansome Street. From right, Bank of California, London & San Francisco Bank Building (completed 1874) at Leidesdorff corner, Mercantile Trust Co. Building (1903,Albert Pissis, Architect), Kohl Building, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Home Insurance Co. Building (completed 1951), Old St. Mary's Cathedral and Fairmont Hotel. Birdcage traffic signals.
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View southeast across Market to K-Ingleside PCC #1016 with wings livery, 8 Castro Line #776. Ferry Building (with Port of San Francisco sign) Ensign Cafe, 3 Market Liquors in background [9757]
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The Loop Barber shop, 3 Market Liquors, Ensign Cafe, Mack's, and a group of Municipal Railway buses. Ferry building sign reads 'Port of San Francisco'
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Elevated view east from center of Market between 2nd Street and Sutter. Cars parked in the middle of the street during Municipal Railway (Muni) Strike. Parking regulations were suspended to allow cars to park on unused streetcar tracks. The strike lasted from Sunday February 17 through Saturday February 23, 1952. From left, Patrick & Co. Stationers, Flatiron Building, Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building, Ferry Building, PG&E Building, Underwood (Typewriter Co.) Building at 525 Market St., California Notion & Toy Co, C. Barrango Mannequins 579 Market, Land Bros Trading Mart.
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View east from center of Market St. to Ferry Building with Port of San Francisco sign (installed 1951). 3 Market Liquors, Ensign Cafe, Barber Shop, Mack's.
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View from San Francisco of departing ferry boat.
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View of Ferry Building and slips from Bay (Camera Movement)
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View East on Market between Sutter and 1st Street. L-Line Muni #1030 Ferry Building in the distance
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