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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