SF Fire Department
Firemen with chorus girls on ladder. Old fire department training tower at Bryant and Division.
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SF Fire Department
Chorus girls posing on fire hydrant. Old fire department training tower at Bryant and Division.
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Civic Center
[City Hall from Crystal Palace] Elevated view west over Pantages (later Orpheum) Theatre under construction with dozens of bystanders watching the excavation. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument , Civic Auditorium, Main Library.
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Aerial South of Market
View northeast towards downtown and Financial District from above 4th Street and Howard, crop of 27.738
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Downtown Aerial
View north looking up 2nd Street. Folsom Street along bottom of photo.
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Aerial South of Market
Vew northeast from above 4th Street and Howard toward downtown and financial district
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Pacific Telephone Bldg
Elevated view southeast from near Market and 4th toward Bay. Aronson Building (J.B. Crowley, Arnstein Simon & Co. woolen goods signage), Pacific Telephone Building under construction. Rialto Building, Sunset Terminal in background left. At right, M.A. Gunst Building aka Rochester Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects) with Boss of the Road Overalls signage, southwest corner of Mission and 3rd, built 1907.
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Mission & 7th
view to northeast corner, Main Post office
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Market & Geary
Elevated view looking west toward Geary & Market St. intersection crowded with people, streetcars and autos. Lotta's Fountain, Flannery Building (with Dinty's Kitchen, Charles Strub Dentist, J. Edlin Merchant Tailor, General Cigar Co. signage). Rosenstock, Schmidt Buildings. Municipal Railway (Muni) A-line streetcar and B-line streetcar on Geary. United Cigars, Korn Hats, Hotel Graystone. Birdcage traffic signals. [M000X-A-04 & M01XX-B-08 1920s]
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Natoma near 2nd
Edgar Jamison Steel Co. 77-79 Natoma, between 1st and 2nd Streets. Building was demolished around 2016 as part of the Transbay Redevelopment Plan.
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Pacific Telephone Building
View southeast toward Pacific Telegraph and Telephone Building, 140 New Montgomery, under construction. Designed by Timothy Pflueger, it is one of SF's most iconic early skyscrapers. To the right is the San Francisco Furniture Exchange building, built 1920 and still standing on New Montgomery between Natoma and Howard. Signs on nearby buildings for Gladding, McBean & Co. and Butte Electrical.
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Market near 6th
St. Francis Theatre, 965 Market St, showing D.W. Griffith's 'Sally of the Sawdust' [RS1101 STF-01 8 August 1925]
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3rd & Natoma
View north on 3rd Street. Peerless Theatre at left showing 'Ridin the Wind', M.A. Gunst Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), built 1907, with large painted sign for Neustadter's Overalls and Work Shirts. Aronson Building, Call Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Hearst Examiner Building in distance. [Peerless Theatre 1925 Third Street View]
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Market near Taylor
Waitress Union' marchers in parade on Market Street. Pompeii (later Regal) Theatre at left, showing 'Rugged Water.' [Regal SF as Pompeii Labor Day Parade Sep 1925]
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Market near 7th
View east on Market Street. Western States Life Insurance, Egyptian Theater ad, [United Artists as Imperial UAR-24 September 1925 Pony Express]
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Fulton & Market
Elevated view west of parade turning off Market Street at Civic Center, Old Main Library, City Hall in distance. Pantages (later Orpheum) Theater under construction at left. Crowded bleachers set up on Fulton.[Diamond Jubilee 1850-1925 San Francisco]
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Folsom & 6th
View east on Folsom from 6th Street showing the north side of the street. Construction work showing raising and regrading of Folsom Street. 2 sets of streetcar tracks. Ferry Sheet Metal works, 982 Folsom at left. [Folsom St. looking east from 6th St.] [dpwbook35 dpw9787]
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Folsom from Russ
[Folsom St. at Russ St. looking South] [dpwbook35 dpw9789] View southwest across intersection to Riddle Sheet Metal Works (1061 Folsom at Sherman, built 1923, extant 2019), Liberty Brass & Bronze Foundry, 16 Sherman (built 1924, extant 2019, at far left), Columbia Square.
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Folsom & Russ
[N. Folsom looking west to 7th St.] dpwbook35 dpw9790] View northwest to buildings on north side of Folsom, between Russ and 7th, which are mostly extant 2019. Temporary railroad tracks.
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Howard near 1st
Excavations undermined a wall of the Phillips & Van Orden Co. printing plant at 511 Howard, causing it to collapse and fill the excavation with debris and large rolls of paper intended for telephone directories. A worker, August Vallat, was trapped underneath the steam shovel at lower right for several hours, but was rescued with only slight injuries. [511 Howard St. dpwbook35 dpw9982]
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