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Pacific & Kearny
Barbary Coast, View northeast across intersection of Columbus, Kearny, and Pacific up Kearny toward Broadway. Parente Brothers Tavern, with stained glass signage on the corner awning for Wreden's Lager, Old Kirk Whiskies, North Star, and ads for Rainier Beer, shoe shine stand to left of doorway. 16-Line Streetcar in background left in front of New Broadway Hotel, having just turned from Broadway. A posed photo, proprietors standing in each business doorway. Most of the buildings in this view still stand in 2021. In doorway of Parente's are posters for a fight promoted by Louis Parente in Coffroth Daly City Arena, Ad Wolgast and Willie Hoppe, set for 9-22-16, but postponed and cancelled, because of weather and threat of legal prosecution. [BC-7][F810 BC-007] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)(AS)
1916
North Beach
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Market near Powell
View northeast across Market between Powell and Stockton. 6-line streetcar #136 derailed in front of the Flood Building blocking all streetcar traffic. At this point, post merger of merger of Muni and Market Street Railway, both the tracks and equipment were worn leading to this derailment. The 4 tracks were reduced to 2 the next year. Morgen Jewelry Co., Florsheim Shoes, Moore Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes, Anglo California National Bank with large electric signs on top. Banners strung across street and on streetlamps for Lions International convention parade on July 28, 1947. Phelan Building in distance.
1947
Downtown / Union Square
