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Skylines (No Date, 1900’s - 1980’s)
Slot Machines
Smog
Snow
Social Security Building
Societies (See: Associations)
Solari Building
Song - San Francisco
Sons of Italy Building
Southern Pacific. Auto Unloading Dock
Southern Pacific Building
Southern Pacific Terminal Building
Speakeasy
Spite Fence (See: Panorama Drawer. Muybridge. Panel 1)
Spreckels Building
Spring Valley Water Building
STADIUMS.
Candlestick
Candlestick. Construction
Candlestick Park. Cove
Candlestick Park. Drawings and Models
Candlestick. Signs
Ewing Field
Kezar
Recreation Grounds (Folsom & 25th)
Recreation Park
Seals
State Bar of California Building
State Building (See: Dist. Civic Center. State Bldg.)
State Compensation Insurance Fund Bldg.
State Department of Employment Bldg.
State Department of Motor Vehicles (See: Dept. of Motor Vehicles)
State Department of Social Welfare
State Employment Service
Steeplejacks
Steifvater Bldg.
Stevenson Place
Stock Exchange. Exteriors
Stock Exchange. Interiors
STREETS.
Artists
Brick Paving
Cave-Ins
Cleaning
Flooding
Lights
Musicians
Repair
Signals
Signs
STREETS (By Name) Note: Numbered streets and avenues follow streets by name
Alemany Blvd.
Amber
Anza
Appleton
Arguello
Arlington
Army
Ashbury
Baker
Balance
Balboa
Barcelona
Bartlett
Battery (Pre 1906 & After 1906)
Bay
Bayshore (1920’s-1960’s)
Bayshore Cutoff
Beach
Beale
Beaver
Bernal Ave.
Bernal Cut
Blanken
Bosworth
Boutwell
Brannan
Brenham Place
Brighton Ave.
Broad
Broadway (1864 at Montgomery)
Broadway (1880’s -1980’s)
Broderick
Brook Alley
Brotherhood Way
Brussells
Bryant
Buchanan
Buena Vista Terrace
Bush (1865, 1866, 1868, 1870’s, 1880’s, 1890’s, 1903, 1905, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s,1960’s, 1970’s)
Cabrillo
Caine
California (1856, 1860’s, 1870’s, 1880’s, 1880 ca, 1882, 1883, 1885 ca, 1888, 1889, 1890’s, 1890 ca, 1890, 1905, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s 1960’s, 1970’s)
Cambridge
Capital
Capp
Carl
Carolina
Castro (1900-1982)
Cecilia Avenue
Cedar
Central Avenue
Chattanooga
Chenery
Chestnut (1920’s - 1950’s)
Child
Chilton Avenue
Church
Clara
Clarendon
Clay (1870’s - 1910’s, 1930’s - 1960’s)
Clayton
Clement
Clement (1980’s)
Clipper
Cole
Collingwood
Columbus (1870’s-1880’s, 1900’s, 1920’s-1970’s)
Commercial
Corbett Road
Cortland
Corwin
Crown Terrace
Cumberland
Cypress
Davis
Day
Del Vale
Delano
Dewey Blvd.
Diamond
Divisadero
Dolores
Douglass
Doyle Drive
Drumm
Duboce
Duncan
Dupont
East
Eddy
Edinburgh
El Camino Del Mar
Elk
Ellington
Ellis
Elsie
Embarcadero (1900’s-1960’s, 1990’s)
Embarcadero. Subway
Eureka
Evans
Excelsior Avenue
Fair Oaks
Faxon
Fell
Filbert
Fillmore (1900’s-1980s’)
Fitzgerald
Florence
Florentine Avenue
Florida
Folsom
Franconia
Franklin
Frederick
Front
Fulton (1980’s)
Funston
Gate
Geary (1860’s-1870’s, 1890’s-1970’s)
Geneva
Gerke Alley
Girard
Glenbrook
Goettingen
Gold
Golden Court
Golden Gate Avenue
Gough
Granada
Grand View Avenue
Grant Avenue (1860’s-1980’s)
Grant Avenue. Arch (Proposed)
Graystone Terrace
Great Highway
Green
Greenwich
Grove
Guerrero
Haight (Pre 1900’s-1920’s, 1940’s-1970’s)
Hamilton
Hampshire
Hanover
Harding Blvd.
Harrison (Pre 1900’s, 1920’s-1950’s)
Hattie
Haveloch
Hayes
Hermann
Highland
Hinckley
Hoffman
Holladay
Hotaling Place
Howard (1860’s, 1880’s-1960’s)
Hudson Avenue
Hugo
Hyde (1880’s, 1910’s-1960’s)
Ingalls
Irving
Ivy
Jackson (1906, 1950’s)
Jamestown
Japan
Jerrold Avenue
Jersey
Jessie
Jones
Jordan
Juanita Way
Judah
Junipera Serra (1930’s-1960’s)
Juri
Kansas
Kearny (1856, 1860’s, 1861, 1870’s, 1880’s,1960’s)
Keith
Kimball
Kirkham
Knox
Laguna
Laguna Honda Blvd.
Laidley
Lake
Lake Merced Blvd.
Lakeside Road
Lakeview
Larkin
Laurel
Laurel Place
Lawton
Leavenworth
Lee
Leidesdorff
Levant
Liberty
Lick Place
Lincoln Park Blvd.
Lincoln Way
Linden Avenue
Lippard
Locksley
Lombard (1910’s-1970’s)
Lyon
Macondray Lane
Maiden Lane (1930s’-1960s’)
Mangels
Mansell
Marina Blvd.
Market (1850s’-1900’s, 1900-1906 pre-quake, 1905, March 31, 1906, 1906-1909 {post-quake}, 1910’s, July 22, 1916 , 1918 Extension, 1920’s, 1920 Extension, 1921 Extension, 1927 Extension, 1930’s-1964, 1967-1976, 1982)
Market. Beautification Drawings
Mars
Mason (1870’s-1900’s, 1920’s-1970’s)
Masonic Avenue
McAllister (1890’s-1930’s, 1960’s-1970’s)
Merchant
Minna
Miramar
Mission (1880’s-1960’s)
Missouri
Monterey Blvd.
Montgomery (1850’s-1970’s)
Moraga
Myra Way
Naglee
Naples
New Montgomery (1870’s-1880’s, 1980’s)
Niantic
Noe
Noriega
Oak
Oakdale
Ocean Avenue (1950’s)
Octavia
O’Farrell (1870’s, 1890’s-1930’s, 1950’s-1960’s)
Ogden Avenue
Onondaga
Ortega
O’Shaugnessy
Ottawa
Pacheco
Pacific
Page
Palou
Pamona
Paris
Park Presidio Blvd.
Park Presidio Blvd. (1980’s)
Parker Avenue
Peralta Avenue
Peru
Phelan
Pierce
Pine (1860’s-1880’s, 1900’s, 1920’s-1950’s, 1970’s)
Plymouth
Point Lobos Road
Polk
Portola Drive
Post (1860’s-1880’s, 1910’s-1950’s, 1970’s)
Potrero Avenue
Powell (1860’s-1980’s)
Presidio Avenue
Prospect Avenue
Quane
Quesada
Randall
Richardson Avenue
Ripley
Ritch
Rivera
Rodgers
Roosevelt Way
Russia
Sacramento (1850’s-1870’s, 1900’s-1940’s, 1960’s, 1985 Archeological Site)
Sagamore
St. Francis Circle
St. Germain Avenue
San Bruno Avenue
Sanchez
San Jose Avenue
Sansome (1850’s-1890’s, 1920’s)
Santa Rosa Avenue
Scott
Shotwell
Shrader
Silver
Skyline Blvd.
Sloat Blvd.
South Van Ness
Southern Heights
Spear
Stanley Drive
Stanyan
Staples
Steiner
Steuart
Stockton (1850’s-1860’s, 1880’s, 1900’s-1960’s)
Sunnydale
Sunset Blvd.
Sutter (1860’s-1900’s, 1920’s-1950’s, 1970’s-1980’s)
Taraval
Taylor (Pre-1906)
Tehama
Thornton
Tillman Place
Townsend
Trumbull
Turk
Twin Peaks Blvd.
Ulloa
Union
Utah
Valencia
Vallejo
Valpariso
Van Ness (1890’s-1900’s, 1920’s-1980’s)
Vassar Place
Vermont
Vicente
Villa Terrace
Virginia
Vulcan
Waller
Washington
Wawona
Webster
West Portal
Wheat
Winston Drive
Woodside
Unidentified
STREETS. (Numbered Streets)
1st
2nd (1850-1870’s, 1880-1900’s)
3rd (Pre-1906, 1910’s-1960’s)
4th-10th
14th-20th
22nd-30th
STREETS. (Numbered Avenues)
3rd
5th-8th
10th-11th
14th
18th-26th
28th
30th
33rd
36th
38th
43rd
45th-48th
STRIKES.
1902 Streetcar
1907 Carmen
1919
1933
1934
1934.
Back to Work (See: Strike 1934 End of Strike)
Ballot
Belt Line Railroad
Burning Seamen’s Books (July 30)
Civic Center
Committee
Communist Raid
Convoyed Food Trucks
End of Strike
Fire Dept.
Food
Free Employment Bureau
Funeral of Strike Victims
Gasoline
Guards
Hearing
Injured Strikes
Longshoremen
Loyalty Pledge
Memorial Service
Military (See: National Guard)
Mission Workers Neighborhood House
National Guard
Parades and Picketing
Photographer
Police
Produce
Return to Work (See: Strike 1934 End of Strike)
Rincon Hill Rioting
Ships in Bay
Streetcars
Strikebreakers
Teamsters
Teamsters Union Headquarters
Transportation
Trucks
Union Headquarters
Victims
Violence (See also: Victims)
Visitors Stranded
Waterfront
Weapons
Western Workers Communist Headquarters
Women
Yellow Cab
1935.
Cleaners and Dyers
Longshoremen
River Lines Work Boats
1936.
Bethlehem Steel
Cleaners and Dyers
Longshoremen
1937.
Cleaners and Dyers
5 & 10 cent Stores
Hotel
Longshoremen
Ships. President Coolidge
Tea Garden Products
1938.
American Can Co.
Electrical Workers
Kress and Newberry
Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers Union
Northern Packing
Retail
Social Club
Warehousemen
1939.
Euclid Candy Co.
Waterfront
1940.
Pacific Greyhound Bus Co.
Ship Scalers and Painters Union
1941.
American Can Co.
California Poultry Co.
Hotel
Machinists
Retail
Warehousemen
1942.
Muni
Shipyards
1945.
Bakery Drivers
Bus Drivers
Machinists
Telephone Operators
1946.
Masters Mates and Pilots
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Streetcars
1947.
American Federation of Radio Artists
Garage and Service Station Local 665
Muni
Sears
Southern Pacific
Telephone
1948.
Boilermakers
Longshoremen
Oil Workers
1949.
Cab Drivers
Cable Cars
Hawaiian Longshoremen
Pan American
Warehousemen
1951.
Brotherhood of Marine Engineers
Building Service Employees Union
Greyhound
Mt. Zion Hospital
National Maritime Union
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Pan American
Southern Pacific
1952.
American Radio Assoc.
Greyhound
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Western Union
1953.
Longshoremen
1956.
United Parcel Service
1957.
Postal Workers
1958.
Broadcast Employees
Postal Workers
1959.
Studio Engineers
1970.
City Employees
Subtreasury Bldg.
Sunnyside Conservatory
Supreme Court Building
Sutro Baths (See: Districts. Ocean Beach. Sutro Baths)
Sutro Tower (See: Districts. Sutro Forest. TV Tower)
Swedish American Hall (2168 Market Street)
SWIMMING.
Golden Gate Swim
Hamilton Field
Larsen Pool
Swimming Pools (See also: Fleishhacker Pool, Sutro Baths)
Symphony
Symphony Hall (See: Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall)

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