North Beach

Contains 675 photos

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Taylor & Bay

View south on Taylor to Powell St. Cable Car on turntable. Sailors

1950 North Beach

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Jackson near Sansome

View West on Jackson from Sansome, rainy[S.F. Real Estate Board]

1950 North Beach

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Kearny & Broadway

Northwest corner of Kearny and Broadway. 2 children on roller skates, stairs up from Broadway. (black and white positive film)

1950 North Beach

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Broadway & Sansome

DeSoto Plymouth BH Motors at Broadway and Sansome

1951 North Beach

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Columbus & Union

View north across intersection to Muni PCC #1006 with wings livery, marked for X-11th St. Only service, on rail fan excursion. Washington Square in background, Sts. Peter & Paul Church at right. (X-Line really wasn't a revenue line; Muni used that designation for fan trips, charters, test runs, etc., which inevitably reached wherever they were going by way of 11th Street and the H line from and to the Mariposa Barn.)

1951 North Beach

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Stockton near Columbus

View north on Stockton toward Columbus. (blurry snapshot) Crowd assembled for a fantrip excursion with then brand-new Car Municipal Railway (Muni) streetcar #1006 taking the crossover on Stockton near Columbus (which accounts for the odd angle of the car relative to the street.) [9437]

1951 North Beach

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Broadway & Romolo

View looking north across Broadway. New Joe's 540 Broadway, Little Swiss, St. Moritz Cafe, Finocchio's, Vanessi's sign at far right,

1952 North Beach

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Bay & Taylor

View east to Powell Cable Car Turnaround. SF MUNI Powell & Mason line #510

1952 North Beach

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Columbus & Taylor

View south on Columbus at Taylor, cable car #507 turning from Columbus. North Beach Furniture Warehouse at left.

1952 North Beach

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NE Downtown aerial

View southeasterly over North Beach, Financial District, Bay Bridge

1953 North Beach

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International Settement

View to south side of Pacific St., The House of Blue Lights, Bee & Ray Goman's Gay 90s.

1953 North Beach

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Pacific near Columbus

Entrance to Barbary Coast Club (later the Little Fox), 533 Pacific, Joe Andrini and his music, Toots LaMay M.C. 'the Sophie Tucker of the West'. "Girlesque on our Stage", "Strips, Laffs, Music", "The Greatest All Girl Revues in Town", "Solly Hoffman, A Dozen Voices and Faces". The area had been rebranded as the International Settlement to promote it as a nightlife district.

1953 North Beach