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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | '''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | ||
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'''Flood Building at Powell and Market, 1908.''' | '''Flood Building at Powell and Market, 1908.''' | ||
''Photo: | ''Photo: C.R. collection'' | ||
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'''Flood Building across from Techau Tavern at Powell and Market, c. 1910.''' | '''Flood Building across from [[Techau Tavern|Techau Tavern]] at Powell and Market, c. 1910.''' | ||
''Photo: Private collection'' | ''Photo: Private collection'' | ||
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'''Powell, Eddy, and Market Streets, c.1920s, when this corner was the entry point to the Tenderloin.''' | '''Powell, Eddy, and Market Streets, c.1920s, when this corner was the entry point to the Tenderloin.''' | ||
''Photo: | ''Photo: C.R.collection'' | ||
[[Image:Man-gazing-at-cable-car-turnaround-Eddy-and-Powell-c-1940s.jpg]] | [[Image:Man-gazing-at-cable-car-turnaround-Eddy-and-Powell-c-1940s.jpg]] | ||
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'''Cable car still ends here, but turnaround no longer in use at Powell/Eddy and Market Streets, 2023.''' | |||
''Photo: Eihway Su'' | |||
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'''Flood Building, 2023.''' | |||
''Photo: Eihway Su'' | |||
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''Video: Glenn Lym'' | |||
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Latest revision as of 08:26, 7 June 2023
Unfinished History
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 at Market and Powell in the late 1880s.
Photo: Private collection
Flood Building at Powell and Market, 1908.
Photo: C.R. collection
Powell and Market, c. 1910.
Photo: Private collection
Flood Building across from Techau Tavern at Powell and Market, c. 1910.
Photo: Private collection
Powell, Eddy, and Market Streets, c.1920s, when this corner was the entry point to the Tenderloin.
Photo: C.R.collection
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 at Eddy/Powell and Market Streets, c. 1940s.
Photo: Private collection
Cable car still ends here, but turnaround no longer in use at Powell/Eddy and Market Streets, 2023.
Photo: Eihway Su
Flood Building, 2023.
Photo: Eihway Su
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Erased Landscape
Video: Glenn Lym