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- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
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Turk Street: 1906
San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of April 1906. "Turk Street, from the corner of Market and Mason." Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Photogenic treadle irons
The treadle irons belonged to an earlier model Davis Vertical Feed, maybe 1880 or so. It managed to get into other photos! The irons found their way across the street to the Native Sons monument, where they posed for a couple shots in the SF Chronicle. (details below, full photos linked)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/1906-San-Francisco-earthquak...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/1906-San-Francisco-earthquak...
More amazing is the fire hydrant. It is still there today, seen in the 2017 Google Street View of 1 Turk Street. It was also there before the fire. That photo is from the SF Public Library. https://webbie1.sfpl.org/multimedia/sfphotos/AAA-9520.jpg (detail below, full photo at link)
The city directory for 1905 shows 1 Turk was owned by notorious Tenderloin crime boss Jerome Bassity. It had a tamale cafe, liquor store, and a saloon, with the Sanborn fire map noting "lodgings above" and a photographer on the third floor.
Burnout
Speaking of sifting through the rubble, I think I see the metal frame of a tailor's sewing machine still standing at far right.
Buildings With Character
It always pains my heart to see nice detailed buildings being damaged or destroyed like the one barely standing in the picture. They don't make them like that anymore.
I'll just betcha
that little fixer upper is worth a pretty penny now!
Armchair archeology
I feel like I can sift through the rubble and piece things back together. Can anyone identify the brushlike thing on some sort of stand in the lower right?
Hamburger Haven
I'm pretty sure Hamburger Haven on Clement Street in San Francisco has this photo framed in their back room. Strange to now see it here.
Is there any way to review the photos of San Francisco you've already posted?
[Try our handy search box. - Dave]
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