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View westerly across Mason, Turk Street at right, Market Street at left. St. Francis Theater at left, Wilson Building, Hale Bros. Building, David Hewes Building. The Dean Building on the gore at center, though deemed historically significant, was demolished in 2020. United Cigar Store, Dolly Madison Chocolates, Maxferd's Pawn Shop, Rainbow Tavern. Birdcage traffic signal.
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Elevated view southeast across Market at McAllister toward streetcar accident between 2 Market Street Railway cars 7-line #119 and 21-line #1502. The outbound 7-line streetcar split a switch while turning onto McAllister. 4 pedestrians were injured. near Clinton Cafeteria, 1059 Market Street. Sterling Furniture, Clark-Gandion Co., Anglo California Bank, Paramount Theatre.
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Little boy posing next to car in front of Ritz Hotel at 216 Eddy St. Oxford Lunch
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View east from center of Market toward streetcar accident between 2 Market Street Railway (MSRy) cars 7-line #119 and 21-line #1502. The outbound 7-line streetcar split a switch while turning onto McAllister. 4 pedestrians were injured. Paramount Theatre. David Hewes Building, Weinsteins Department store, Sterling Furniture.
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Elevated view towards street below, Clift Hotel across Taylor Street.
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View north on Mason from Turk ,Sunset Cafeteria (Demolished), Hotel Ambassador at left.
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View east across Mason toward a man posing at on the Native Sons Monument in its original location. Two women walking into the shot. Mechanics Savings Bank Building at left. Davies Theatre in the distance
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View north on Taylor St, with RKO Golden Gate Theatre at left. Will King's RKO Grill, Chateau Restaurant, Grand Hotel, Hotel Clark. [Golden Gate SF GGA-38 April 1937]
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View south of California St. cable car #60. United Artists theater in background. [CC60-63-07 25 APR 1937]
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Elevated view northwest to Loew's Warfield Theatre in center showing 'The Good Earth.'Paramount (previously Granada) Theatre in distance. At bottom left, Shirley Temple movie at St. Francis (previously Empress, Strand) Theatre.
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Elevated view southwest across Market to crowded street scene. St. Francis Theatre (later demolished), Wilson Building, Old Hale Bros. Building, David Hewes Building, Delger Building. In distance, United Artists Theatre, Embassy Theatre. 17-line streetcar #135, 8-line streetcar #105, 5-line streetcar #887. At lower right, stores in Dean Building, Dolly Madison Candy, Mrs. Green's Buttermilk Pancakes, Maxferd's Jewelry
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Paramount, 1066 Market between McAllister and Golden Gate (demolished). It was built as the first Granada and renamed Paramount in 1930. Movie ad displays in exterior lobby area. [RS1088 PAR-88 March 1937 Maytime]
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Paramount, 1066 Market between McAllister and Golden Gate (demolished). It was built as the first Granada and renamed Paramount in 1930. Closeup of movie ad displays in exterior lobby. [RS1089 PAR-89 March 1937 Maytime]
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Paramount, 1066 Market between McAllister and Golden Gate (demolished). It was built as the first Granada and renamed Paramount in 1930. Closeup of movie ad display on street. [RS1091 PAR-91 March 1937 Maytime]
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View south across Market between 6th and 7th opposite Jones, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 9-Line streetcar #1576, United Artists Theatre in background, with 'The Cowboy and the Lady' playing. Sterling Furniture Co. at left.
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Jones Street Shuttle Cable Car #60 on O'Farrell, Jones and Hyde Line. View toward northeast corner of Eddy and Jones. Building with sign for Skating in the background demolished (first replaced), Now the site of Boeddeker Park
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Elevated view south to Market and 6th Streets on rainy day. At center is the David Hewes Building built 1908 and still stands today. (with modern cladding) Market Street Railway (MSRy) 9-line streetcar #17xx at left. Summerfield & Haines Clothiers, Owl Drugs, Walgreen Drugs. Duplicate of wnp5.51025, wnp27.2631.
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View northwest across Market between Taylor & Turk. Market Street Railway Co. (MSRy) 9-line #573, Warfield Theater, New Circle Theater playing Escape By Night and Boothill Brigade, Dean Building (demolished 2018) with art deco remodel. Old Crow Cocktails, John Davis tailor, Maxferd's Diamond Brokers, Downs, Dolly Madison candies.
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631 O'Farrell in background. Rooftop in vicinity of O'Farrell and Larkin.
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Don Lee Cadillac, St Mary's Cathedral, Packard's Showroom. Both buildings have radio towers on them. Packard & Buick were intense competitors, so Packard put up dummy transmitters for showmanship.
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