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Geary & Polk

January 1, 1942

View to northwest corner past Municipal Railway (Muni) D-line streetcar #178. Hilden Hotel. The building on the corner is the old Pierce Arrow dealership, built in 1913, moved to Van Ness and Bush in 1931. It was the State Relief Agency in 1930s, closed in 1941. Was U.S. War Assets Building in 1940s and 1950s. Was Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich; the Psychological Corporation;, and the Academic Press, all academic publishers, from 1967 through 1983. Was Red Cross Disaster Shelter in 1989 after Loma Prieta earthquake, became North of Market Multiservice Center in 1990. (PF)