California & Market
View southwest from California Street cable car terminal, car #55. Buildings at center, including Fife Building and plaza on left have been demolished.
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Montgomery & Market
Giants Parade, welcoming the team back from Spring training. Players Mike McCormick and Johnny Antonelli in convertible.
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Montgomery & Sutter
Giants Parade, welcoming the team back from Spring training. Players Curt Barkley and Stu Miller in convertible.
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Giants Spring Parade
Market and Montgomery, a woman greet Orlando Cepeda and Felipe Alou as they pass in car during parade
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Montgomery Block
View southerly on Columbus toward the intersection of Montgomery & Washington. (now the site of the Transamerica Pyramid)
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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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California near Montgomery
View west from center of California above Montgomery, probably from cable car, looking up Nob Hill to Old St. Mary's Church, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (later Ritz-Carlton), Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels. At right, Financial Center Building (1927), later Omni Hotel, with lower stories modernized with stone sheathing. Empty lot with pedestrian safety structure at 550 California, site of Occidental Life Insurance Co. Building, completed 1960. Uphill from construction side is Home Insurance Company Building (around this time, Fireman's Fund) completed 1951 and demolished in 1983. On left, at Kearny corner, construction or demolition is underway for the International Building (601 California).
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Market at Embarcadero
View east on Market from The Embarcadero. Southern Pacific Building, PG&E Building at left. Embarcadero freeway construction, Twin Peaks in the distance. Hotel Terminal, Mobilgas sign, Hobart Building.
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Sansome & Commercial
View east on Commercial from Sansome, looking towards Ferry Building, Old Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Building on right, area now part of Embarcadero Center.
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Crown-Zellerbach Pavilion
Built in 1959, this pavilion accompanied the first modern skyscraper built on Market Street in 30 years. Likely November or December, Christmas decorations and a wreath over the door.
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Market & Sansome
Crowd in front of news stand/ sandwich shop in Flatiron Building, Crown Zellerbach (One Bush Plaza) Building at right.
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Washington & Drumm
View northwest across Washington & Drumm intersection to old Produce Market district, demolished for Golden Gateway project. Scatena Galli Fruit Co., 104 Washington at right. In distance, John Demartini Co., Levy & Zentner, Appraisers Building.
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Montgomery Block
Workmen starting demolition of historic structure.
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Montgomery Block
Workmen starting demolition of historic structure
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Montgomery Block
View southeast to street scene before demolition. Cleveland Wrecking Co. signs in windows of Montgomery Block, later site of Transamerica Pyramid. Columbus Savings Building on left.
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Montgomery Block
Street scene before demolition
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Market near Sutter
View northwest across Market to Crocker, Hobart, Flatiron and Hunter-Dulin Buildings. Intersection beyond mailbox at left is with Ecker St., which no longer intersects with Market. 2 Muni PCC streetcars, including #1150, and 2 buses. Patrick & Co. printers and stationers, Ye Old King Cole coffee shop and fountain, Arden coffee shop.
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Market & Montgomery
Giants parade 1959 with Chinatown float
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California & Kearny
View east down California to California Street Cable Car #53 about to cross Kearny. Southern Pacific Building with large S-P sign on roof in distance. Scaffolding around Kohl Building. 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. Downhill from construction site, Financial Center Building (1927). Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on side at right. (Cropped version of wnp14.1576.)
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Embarcadero & Merchant
View northwest to Ferry Station Post Office, Embarcadero & Merchant, now site of Sue Bierman Park. Embarcadero Freeway construction in foreground. The building survived freeway and the nearby Golden Gateway construction, but was torn down in approximately 1967. Coit Tower, background right. [Bldg by Embarcadero]
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