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View southeast across California to J. Harold Dollar (Balfour) Building (351 California) on corner and Robert Dollar Building in distance (built 1910, expanded in 1919). Fireman's Fund Insurance Company Building has since been demolished. Insurance Exchange Building (433 California) at right. Birdcage traffic signals at intersection.
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View southwest to J.L. Stuart Manufacturing Company, Canvas Goods, on southwest corner. Signs for close-out sale and moving to South San Francisco plant April 1958, also announcing 25 story office building to be built on the site. Tilden Sales Building and Board of Trade Building at left (Shaklee Terraces built 1979 on that site). Shell Building in background center. The building was sold in 1956, current 19 story building on site, 111 Pine, built 1963-1965. At right, 98 Battery Building (built 1907) still stands in 2022.
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View east to California Street Cable car at Market Street terminal. Southern Pacific Building. Weinstein Co at 110 Market, Club 98. Fosters Cafeteria in Santa Marina Building.
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California Street cable car #55. View across Market towards Spear. Crocker Anglo Bank, Lincoln Hotel, Southern Pacific Building.
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View northeast across California to Foster's in Santa Marin Building; Weinstein Co. Muni Cable Car #60.
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View north on Montgomery to cheerleaders leading Giants parade, as convertibles turn off California behind them under "Welcome SF Giants" banner.
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Giants Parade; high elevation view looking north on Montgomery
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Sunset view west from bay. S-P, Mobilgas and Port of San Francisco signs.
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View from in front of the Ferry Building. Embarcadero Freeway under construction. Goodyear blimp overhead, New Bridge Hotel and the 58 Club Tavern visible.
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Produce District, view north on Ceylon Street, a one block street from Clay to Washington, between Davis and Front, the site of Maritime Plaza today. (Golden Gateway); Ghiselli Bros. Produce, Tip Top Produce on Washington St.
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View east on Commercial Street between Battery and Front. The Ferry Building in background, (Entire block demolished for Embarcadero Center, photo taken from current site of 1 Embarcadero Center)
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View east on Commercial, Federal Reserve Bank (now Bentley Reserve) at right, Ferry Building in background. (This area now part of Embarcadero Center) Cars, people, Embarcadero Freeway
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View west across Market at Front. Crown Zellerbach (aka One Bush, completed 1959) and Shell Buildings. Top of Postal Telegraph Building, Board of Trade Building, Tilden Sales Building with water tank atop. Cigar store at center foreground. Donahue Mechanics Monument at lower left. Buildings in foreground later demolished.
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View west on Stevenson Street between 1st and 2nd toward the Sheraton Palace Hotel
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View west from Market and New Montgomery. Chronicle Building (with Home Mutual Savings sign) 660 Market Building background center. Mutual Savings Bank, Flannery, Bankers Investment, and Phelan Buildings in distance. Sheraton Palace at left. Kaufman Camera Mart, Daniels Tailoring and See's Candies at far right.
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Looking east down Market near Davis. Ferry Building at center background. SP sign on top of Southern Pacific Building, Matson & PG&E Buildings right. Hamm's billboard on left. At right foreground Hyman's Leasing, Citizen's Federal Savings, and Bresler Jeweler.
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Looking skyward north on Montgomery from Market, Wells Fargo Union Trust Building and Hobart Building at right.
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Looking skyward at Market and Bus up at Crown Zellerbach and Shell Buildings
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Crown Zellerbach Building nearing completion
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View west on California between Front and Davis. California Street cable car #53. All buildings on both sides of the street up to intersection and on both opposite corners have since been demolished.
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