I never realized that the Pontiac “Dart” is a Native American Arrowhead, until I read it in Five Fascinating Things You Didn’t Know About Famous Car Logos by Joshua Johnson.

But, bloody and unbowed, it still stands.

[The building now on the site dates from 2002. -tterrace]

I wonder what they're asking for the '32 Marmon? It would be tough to get parts: Marmon went tango uniform a few years earlier. My grandfather was of the unlucky associates to feel the Depression hit home with that closure.

"OK, everyone who showers BEFORE work, please stand on the right. And everyone who showers AFTER work, please stand on the left."

It appears Mr. Herzog was quite the promoter. That Pontiac with the hood outlined in neon must have been quite the sight in 1936.

What are the big round covers on the street?

[The buttons were a way to designate a streetcar safety zone, like this one on Market St. in 1942. -tterrace]

Unique to San Francisco were the "birdcage" traffic signals invented in the 1920s by SF's Engineer of Underground Construction, Ralph W. Wiley. I remember many of these still being in operation in the mid-1950s; the last of them were removed in 1958 or 1959. Apparently only 20 or so are still in existence; here's an exciting video of one that's been restored to working condition.