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Market near Grant
View northeast from the sidewalk on Market toward Kearny, huge crowd watching parade with mounted cavalry in full dress uniforms. Soldier playing a bugle at center. 700 Market Building (with L. Monaco Photographer signage), Chronicle Building and Crocker Building in the background right. A fire burned most of the Davis Brothers Golden Rule Bazaar building at 718 Market on February 26, 1894, along with the two clothing businesses next door, Stein & Company and Lyons & Fisher, advertised fire sales throughout most of March. (PF)
South of Market
wnp71.0404
Market near 3rd
View northeast across Market to 660 Market St (Realty Building, built 1907, demolished 1923). Army recruitment effort with soldier standing behind podium with large Victrola phonograph, tank vehicle with signs: 'The Dominant Tractor Built by C.L. Best Gas Traction Co., San Leandro, Cal.', 'Tracklayer Best 75', 'Enlist Today & Help California to furnish 3000 men in 30 days for the Duration of the War.' In April, 1917 the C.L. Best Co. gave the Army an armored prototype of one of its Tracklayer line of farm tractors for use in recruitment. Signs on Realty Building for Lyon & Hoag Real Estate office, North Pacific Steamship Co., The Waldorf, A.J. Henry Notary Public. The Ocularium Henry Kahn & Co., Quarg's Bar, Pioneer Assay Office. Crocker Building at right. [SS-198] [G810 SS-198] (GGNRA/B
South of Market
