What San Francisco looked like in the 1930s through Incredible Historical Photos

#1 Exterior view of Main Library, 1938

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#2 Civic Center in the 1930s

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#3 Aerial view of back of Main Library looking toward City Hall, 1931

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#4 Frontal view of Main Library exterior in the 1930s

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#5 Fisherman’s Wharf, circa 1939

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#6 Streetcar on Market Street between Taylor and Mason streets in the 1930s

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#7 Commuters on Market Street across from the Ferry Building in the 1930s

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#8 Market Street, looking east from Stockton in the 1930s

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#9 Arts and crafts class at an unidentified school in the 1930s

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#10 Crowd at Geary and Stockton streets, 1935

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#11 Montgomery Street, circa 1939

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#12 View from Leavenworth and McAllister streets looking northeast, 1935

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#13 Mission Street at Sickles Avenue, 1930

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#14 1500 block of Lombard Street, 1939

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#15 Streetcars parked at Embarcadero, 1938

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#16 Exterior of building being remodeled into a tavern at 4th and Mission Street, 1933

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#17 Southwest corner of Lombard and Fillmore streets, 1939

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#18 Seagulls over Fisherman’s Wharf, 1937

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#19 Mason at Chestnut, 1931

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#20 2400 block of Lombard Street, 1939

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#21 View of the Embarcadero near pier 5 in the 1930s

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#22 Exterior of Diana Hall at 580 Pacific Avenue in the Barbary Coast district, 1934

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#23 Workmen uncovering old piles of Clark’s Point Wharf at the Embarcadero, 1938

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#24 View from Twin Peaks looking east, 1934

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#25 Spring at Union Square Park, 1938

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#26 Aerial view of the Civic Center in the 1930s

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#27 Rainy day on Mission Street, 1937

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#28 Hyde Street near Bay, 1938

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#29 Kearny and Commercial streets, 1931

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#30 Griffing’s Warehouse on Filbert Street with Telegraph Hill in background in the 1930s

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#31 Southwest corner of Lombard and Laguna streets, 1939

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#32 Dining room at Angel Island immigration station, 1933

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#33 Aerial view of San Francisco’s Civic Center, 1932

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#34 Hyde Street, 1933

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#35 Third Street and Channel, 1931

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#36 Southwest corner of Lombard and Scott streets, 1939

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#37 Columbus Avenue at Grant Street, 1939

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#38 Storefronts along Embarcadero, 1938

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#39 Unidentified men along the waterfront in the 1930s

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#40 State Building in the Civic Center, 1932

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#41 Aerial view of Ocean Beach in the 1930s

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#42 Sutter Street between Fillmore and Webster streets, 1930

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#43 Harrison Street near 17th Street, 1933

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#44 Officers Ed Connell and Frank Dunphy raise the “another traffic death” flag in Union Square, 1939

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#45 Vehicles at the waterfront, 1938

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#46 Four people in a parked car at Marina Yacht Harbor between 1920 and 1939

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#47 View of a rotting pier, 1935

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#48 Streetcar in front of the Ferry Building, 1934

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#49 People walking along the Marina pier, 1933

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#50 View of San Francisco from Mark Hopkins Hotel, 1934

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#51 Laborers working on the excavation for Third Street sewer near Isthmus Creek Bridge, 1935

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#52 View of San Francisco skyline from Empire Hotel looking east, 1935

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#53 Aerial view of the city and waterfront looking towards the southeast, 1937

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#54 Chestnut at Mason Street, circa 1931

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#55 Miniature golf course on north side of Mission Street between 4th and 5th streets in the 1930s

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#56 Aerial view of the Civic Center, 1938

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#57 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister Street, 1932

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#58 California Street in the 1930s

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#59 Third Street between Merrimac and Alameda, 1938

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#60 Longshoremen loading cargo onto a freighter, 1938

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#61 McAllister at Steiner Street, 1934

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#62 Crowd waiting in line to enter a home near the Civic Center, 1935

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#63 Troops preparing for maneuvers at the Presidio, 1937

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#64 Third Street, 1936

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#65 Castro Street cable car in the 1930s

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#66 Ferry Building, 1936

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#67 Howard Street at 20th, 1931

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#68 Embarcadero south of Ferry Building, 1936

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#69 View of piers, 1938

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#70 Exterior of Exposition Fish Grotto at Fisherman’s Wharf, 1937

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#71 Captain P.B. Lamb, Charles S. Tripler, and Mark Fontana at Marina Yacht Harbor, 1931

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#72 Mission Street at Army, 1931

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#73 Crowd at the front steps of City Hall, 1935

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#74 Presidio, 1930s

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#75 Fishing boats at Fisherman’s Wharf, 1937

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#76 Municipal-owned Lighthouse at yacht harbor in the Marina, 1935

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#77 View along the Embarcadero in the 1930s

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#78 Fishermen at Fisherman’s Wharf, 1935

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#79 Community Chest girl and boy at a toy stand, 1934

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#80 Lombard at Scott Street, 1939

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#81 California Street at 6th Avenue and Cornwall, 1932

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#82 Sailor’s boarding house on the waterfront, 1934

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#83 Rectangular patch of grass at Embarcadero, 1938

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#84 Fillmore at Green Street, 1938

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#85 McAllister at Steiner Street, 1934

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#86 View of Broadway, 1938

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#87 Home reconstruction in the Civic Center, 1934

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#88 Men waiting in line at the waterfront, 1938

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#89 View of downtown and Bay Bridge looking east, 1937

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#90 Row of houses in the Twin Peaks district in the 1930s

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#91 Fisherman’s Wharf, 1930

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#92 Geary Street at Presidio Avenue car barn, 1930

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#93 Hyde Street at Post, 1936

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#94 Billboards at Embarcadero, 1936

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#95 Children being safely escorted across Geary and Cook Street, 1937

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#96 Streetcar at Fillmore and Sacramento Streets in the 1930s

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#97 Streetcars parked at Embarcadero, 1939

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#98 Bush Street between Buchanan and Webster, 1932

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#99 Van Ness Avenue at Sacramento Street, 1930

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#100 Southwest corner of Fillmore and Lombard Streets, 1939

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#101 Street car turning onto Kearny Street from Bush Street, 1938

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#102 View of downtown between 1930 and 1936

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#103 Geary Street between Van Ness and Franklin Street, 1934

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#104 View of downtown skyline, 1930

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#105 Bayshore Boulevard at Silver Street, 1937

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#106 Aerial view of the waterfront looking northwest, 1930

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#107 Decorative arches and towers on Mission Street, 1939

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#108 Ocean Beach in the 1930s

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#109 View of the waterfront looking south from the Bay Bridge, 1939

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#110 View of downtown from Mark Hopkins, 1934

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#111 Traffic along the waterfront, 1938

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#112 Third and Townsend Streets, 1938

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#113 Lombard Street westerly from Divisadero, 1933

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#114 Bayshore Boulevard at Paul Avenue, 1931

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#115 O’Farrell Street at Fillmore, 1930

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#116 The USS Colorado in the Bay with the city in the background, 1934

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#117 Pine Street at Leavenworth, 1933

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#118 1800 block of Lombard Street, 1939

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#119 Corner of Grant Avenue and Clay Street, 1935

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#120 View of downtown with Bay Bridge under construction in the 1930s

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#121 Building on the corner of Mason and Chestnut Streets, 1931

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#122 Hyde Street between Beach and Jefferson, 1933

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#123 Artist’s rendering of proposed air terminal on Yerba Buena Island, 1933

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#124 Downtown Third and Market Streets, 1939

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#125 Store fronts across from the Southern Pacific Station on Third at Townsend Streets, 1937

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#126 San Francisco Civic Center from the Taylor Hotel, 1930

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#127 Van Ness Avenue and Eddy Street, 1934

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#128 1800 block of O’Farrell Street, 1932

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#129 View of the Embarcadero, 1934

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#130 California Street at Montgomery in the 1930s

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#131 Agents inspecting marijuana plants in front of Rinaldo Gotti’s home in the Mission District, 1935

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#132 2600 block of Mission Street in the 1930s

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#133 Ferry Building, 1934

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#134 Third Street, 1936

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#135 Third and Brannan Streets, 1931

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#136 View of the piers, Yerba Buena Island, and the Bay Bridge under construction in the 1930s

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#137 Parade, Civic Center in the 1930s

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#138 California Street, 1935

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#139 1800 block of Lombard Street, 1939

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#140 Firemen fighting a fire at the Fillmore Street Hotel, 1936

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#141 Parade on Market Street near the Ferry Building in the 1930s

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#142 Van Ness Avenue with City Hall in the background, 1935

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#143 2200 block of Lombard Street, 1939

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#144 Pacific Avenue in the Barbary Coast District, 1934

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#145 Mission Street at Guttenberg, 1931

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#146 Mission Street at Appleton looking south, 1932

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#147 Ferry Building in the 1930s

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#148 Construction of the Bay Bridge, 1935?

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#149 View of Ferry Building looking east, 1934

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#150 Home at 251 7th Street, 1934

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#151 Bayshore Boulevard at the San Francisco county line, 1930

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#152 Grant Avenue and Columbus, 1939

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#153 Van Ness Avenue and Bay Street dip, 1936

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#154 Crowds at Ocean Beach, 1936

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#155 Howard Street at 8th, 1936

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#156 View of the waterfront and downtown from the bay, 1936

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#157 Automobiles lined up to board ferry at the Ferry Building, 1933

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#158 Chinese arc lamps in Chinatown on Grant Avenue, 1938

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#159 Aerial view of Fort McDowell on Angel Island, 1933

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#160 Geary at Scott Street, 1932

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#161 Crowds of people lined up along the Embarcadero in the 1930s

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#162 Powell Street at Market, 1937

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#163 Ocean Beach, Great Highway, and Esplanade, 1930

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#164 Several cars with drivers parked in front of City Hall, 1934

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#165 Playland across from Ocean Beach in the 1930s

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#166 Van Ness Avenue overlooking the bay, 1936

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#167 View of San Francisco and bay looking east, between 1930 and 1936

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#168 Bayshore Boulevard, 1930

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#169 Montgomery Street at Commercial, 1932

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#170 Van Ness Avenue and Broadway, 1930

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#171 Third Street between Merrimac and Alameda, 1938

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#172 Fishing boat outside of Fishermen’s Grotto at Fisherman’s Wharf, 1939

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#173 Broadway at Van Ness, 1934

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#174 Aerial view of the city and Bay with Yerba Buena Island in the background, 1933

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#175 View from Twin Peaks looking down Market Street, 1934

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#176 Telegraph Hill, 1937

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#177 Market Street, between 1920 and 1939

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#178 Southwest corner of Lombard and Franklin streets, 1939

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#179 Beach Esplanade, Sea Bent Grass Planting For Sand Control – WPA Project, 1936

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#180 Ocean Beach view from Sutro Heights from Sutro’s home, 1938

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#181 Old St. Mary’s Church, 1936

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#182 Large crowd of people gathering in front of City Hall in the Civic Center, 1932

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#183 Lombard Street west of Fillmore Street, 1937

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#184 1869 O’Farrell Street, 1932

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#185 Grant Avenue, 1930

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#186 Intersection of Van Ness Avenue and Grove Street with City Hall in the background, 1937

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#187 Twin Peaks, 1930

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#188 Ocean Beach walkway, 1933

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#189 Sutter Street in the 1930s

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#190 View from Leavenworth and McAllister streets looking southeast, 1935

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#191 View of the Embarcadero near pier 24 during the longshoremen strike, 1934

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#192 Civic Center from Taylor Hotel, 1930

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#193 Storefronts on Fulton and Hyde Street in the Civic Center, 1938

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#194 Fisherman’s Wharf, 1930

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#195 Van Ness Avenue and Broadway, 1936

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#196 Home reconstruction in the Civic Center, 1934

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#197 Geary and Market at 3rd Street, 1934

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#198 View of the waterfront looking out towards the Bay in the 1930s

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#199 Geary and 8th Avenue, 1930

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#200 1900 block of Lombard Street, 1939

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#201 Market Street in the 1930s

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