Powell and Market Changes Through the Years: Difference between revisions

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[[Image:Powell and Market Cable Car Turnaround.2023.JPG]]
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'''Cable Car turnaround no longer in use at Powell and Market Streets, 2023.'''
'''Cable Car still ends here, but turnaround no longer in use at Powell and Market Streets, 2023.'''


''Photo: Eihway Su''
''Photo: Eihway Su''

Revision as of 16:19, 26 April 2023

Unfinished History

Powell-from-Market-1856.jpg

This image taken in 1866 looking north on Powell is just fifteen years after the area was still largely sand dunes covered in scrub. Note Temple Emanu-el in distance, a block north of Union Square.

Photo: Private collection

Baldwin-Hotel-Market-and-Powell-Sts-w-cable-cars-and-pedestrians-c-1880s.jpg

Baldwin Hotel at Market and Powell in the late 1880s.

Photo: Private collection

Flood-Bldg-c-1908.jpg

Flood Building at Powell and Market, 1908.

Photo: C.R. collection

Powell-and-market-techau-tavern-c-1910s.jpg

Powell and Market, c. 1910.

Photo: Private collection

Market-and-powell-techau-tavern-c-1910.jpg

Flood Building across from Techau Tavern at Powell and Market, c. 1910.

Photo: Private collection

Powell-Eddy-and-Market-c-1920s.jpg

Powell, Eddy, and Market Streets, c.1920s, when this corner was the entry point to the Tenderloin.

Photo: C.R.collection

Man-gazing-at-cable-car-turnaround-Eddy-and-Powell-c-1940s.jpg

Man standing under awning of Owl Drugs on ground floor of Flood Building at Powell and Eddy and Market Streets, c. 1940s.

Photo: Private collection

Cable-car-turnaround-Eddy-and-Powell-c-1940s.jpg

Cable car turnaround at Eddy/Powell and Market Streets, c. 1940s.

Photo: Private collection

Powell and Market Cable Car Turnaround.2023.JPG

Cable Car still ends here, but turnaround no longer in use at Powell and Market Streets, 2023.

Photo: Eihway Su

Flood Building 2023.JPG

Flood Building, 2023.

Photo: Eihway Su

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Erased Landscape

Video: Glenn Lym