Powell and Market Changes Through the Years: Difference between revisions
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'''This image taken in | '''This image taken in 1866 looking north on Powell is just fifteen years after the area was [[Powell and Market 1851|still largely sand dunes]] covered in scrub. Note Temple Emanu-el in distance, a block north of Union Square.''' | ||
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Revision as of 00:15, 12 December 2014
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: Charles Ruiz 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: Charles Ruiz 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