Broadway near Sansome
View East on Broadway from about Osgood Place.
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Kearny & Broadway
View North on steep block of Kearny from Broadway.
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Pacific near Montgomery
South side of Pacific St. Sahara Sands Club (with sign on side for LaConga), Circus Room, Barbary Coast Club (later the Little Fox), The House of Blue Lights, and Bee & Ray Goman's Gay 90s. In later years the Barbary Coast leg sign was recycled into the Chez Paree sign on Mason Street between Turk and Eddy in the Tenderloin. [Little Fox LFO-02 as Barbary Coast ca 1954]
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Bay & Taylor
View south across intersection to Muni cable car #503 on turntable, passengers boarding.
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Pacific near Kearny
View northeast across Pacific Avenue to Gay N' Frisky Club (590 Pacific Avenue), Lee's New Hot Dog Stand, The Carousel, Lucca's, Gene's, DeSoto Plymouth, Associated Parking. In right distance, large sign spanning Pacific at Montgomery St. reads 'Thank You! Come Again.' (Area once known as the Barbary Coast and International Settlement.) Most buildings still stand 2022.
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View from Russian Hill
View from Green and Taylor toward Washington Square, Coit Tower, and North Beach
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Columbus & Pacific
International Settlement, view east down Pacific from across Columbus. McHales, United States Immigration Station and Appraisers Stores of 1939–44 (now commonly called the Appraisers Building) at right.
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Vallejo from Montgomery
View East toward the bay, Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, Piers
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Columbus & Pacific
View east to International Settlement entrance (second steel entry arch in distance). Arabian Nights, Barbary Coast, McHales. United States Immigration Station and Appraisers Stores of 1939–44 (now commonly called the Appraisers Building) at right.
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Lombard near Grant
View West on Lombard between Grant and Stockton, toward Russian Hill.
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Pacific near Kearny
Barbary Coast. Night view looking east on Pacific Ave from the sidewalk. Women standing in front of Gay 'n Frisky club at 590 Pacific. McKale's, Hippodrome.
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Broadway & Kearny
Group posing outside Finocchio's club
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Green Street Theatre
Exterior and marquee of Green Street Theatre at 625 Green St near Columbus. Natalini's, Gelardi's Florist, Valente Marini Funeral Directors [Green Street Theatre GST-01 1955]
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Hyde & Beach
View west to cable car turntable at Aquatic Park, SF Muni Cable Car #520. Undeveloped land would later be turned into Victorian Park. Maritime Museum and Fort Mason in distance.
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Hyde & Beach
View northwest to cable car on turntable in Aquatic Park, Hyde & Beach Streets. Fort Mason and Golden Gate Bridge in distance. (Undeveloped land would later become Victorian Park.)
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Bay & Taylor
Cable Car #503 on turntable at Bay and Taylor Streets.
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Taylor & Francisco
Powell-Mason cablecar #503. [Susie, Mary, Johnny]
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Taylor & Francisco
Powell-Mason cablecar #503. [Susie, Bessie, Mary]
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Bay & Taylor
[SF Cable car Dec. 57] Powell St. cablecar #506 on turntable.
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Nob Hill Aerial
Wide Aerial view south toward a 3-alarm fire on Duboce between Mission and Valencia Street from about Nob Hill showing much of downtown all the way to San Bruno Mountain. (the same day as a major earthquake though determined to be unrelated)
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