23rd St. Station
View north toward 22nd Street. Southern Pacific Steam Engine #4443, Train #96 pulling into 23rd Street Station. I280 Freeway now covers this view. Daniel Webster School in background left.
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View toward Potrero Hill
View northeast from Bernal Heights, Bayshore Freeway US101 being graded in the foreground, Potrero Terrace public housing, Bayshore Machinery & Pipe Co 33 Bayshore Blvd., J.H. Mohr Company, and Islais Creek Incinerator..
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US101 Construction
View Northerly toward Potrero Hill. This segment of US101 (between Army/ Cesar Chavez Blvd. and Augusta Street, just south of Alemany Blvd.) was built between April 1949 & May 1951. Here, the roadbed has been graded & coated with oil (to keep the dust down?), but not yet paved, Summer/Fall 1949. This part of US101 was the first freeway section within the city limits of San Francisco. (TA)
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View from Potrero Hill
Telephoto view east over Potrero Hill toward San Francisco Bay, Oakland and East Bay Hills. Oil tanker in the bay. St. Teresa of Avila Church at center at corner of 19th and Connecticut. View from approx. DeHaro and 19th Streets
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Potrero Hill Rec Center
[Recreation & Parks] Arkansas near Madera, View west toward 800 block of Arkansas Street and water tower at 22nd and Wisconsin. Construction of Recreation Center Gymnasium (Architect William Merchant)
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Cesar Chavez & Connecticut
View from rooftop northeast to south side of Potrero Hill, Potrero Terrace housing, Heieck & Moran, Soule Steel Company, gas tanks
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US101 construction
View north toward Potrero Hill. This segment of US101 (between Army/ Cesar Chavez Blvd. and Augusta Street, just south of Alemany Blvd.) was built between April 1949 & May 1951. Judging by the progress of the construction, the photo looks to have been taken sometime in 1950. (TA)
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Jackson Park
17th and Arkansas, Potrero Hill, High school baseball game, Mission High School with batter swinging
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Pennsylvania & 25th
Southern Pacific Daylight locomotive coming out of 25th St tunnel
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SF Aerial
Aerial view northwest from above Potrero Hill. South of Market, Civic Center, Mission, Western Addition, Pacific Heights, Marina, Golden Gate Park, Richmond, Presidio. Taken from a military plane. [Over San Francisco 8000 Feet Jan 1950]
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Bayshore Freeway Construction
View north from Peralta Avenue above Cesar Chavez and San Bruno Avenue toward Potrero Hill.
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Pennsylvania near 25th
View north on Pennsylvania. Gas tank next to three houses that still stand.Circles indicate workmen on the tank. [ World's largest natural gas holder recently completed. Holds 17,000,000 cubic feet of gas. 300 foot diameter and 379 feet high.]
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View from Potrero Hill
Bay Bridge and Mission Bay Railroad yards.. View from near 20th Street and De Haro.
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Rhode Island near Mariposa
537 Rhode Island Street, single family home, built 1948. Resident with dog in garage area.
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Texas near 17th
This small, flat front Italianate single family residence at 126 Texas Street was built before the 1906 earthquake.
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Missouri near 17th
This single-family residence at 145 Missouri Street was built in 1907.
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Connecticut near 17th
116 Connecticut between 17th Street and Marisposa. Small house on the back of the lot, replaced by a large multiunit apartment house in 1989.
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Connecticut near 17th
135 Connecticut still exists at the back of the lot between 17th and Mariposa, obscured from the street by a new home built in 1999. This image shows a garage in front, with large painted advertisement for Les Vogel auto service.
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Connecticut near 17th
141 Connecticut. Single family home with round bay windows. Built circa 1900. Now has modern addition.
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101 Connecticut
Western Dairy Products at the southeast corner of 17th and Connecticut, The building now sports a mural expounding on the benefits of Potrero Hill
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