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Trains that ran regularly by the cement factory went diagonally across 17th into a railyard where the PG&E work yard and parking lot is now, between Harrison and Treat. Notice silver Hilton Hotel in back left and brown Bank of America building downtown behind factory at right.

Photo: courtesy Francisco FloresLanda

Old railyard between 17th and 18th, Harrison and Treat, 1970s.

Photo: Shaping San Francisco

17th and Harrison, cement factory at right between 16th, 17th, Harrison and Alabama, there until the late 1990s. White wall at left was painted with mural in next photo below in the 1980s, later whitewashed as seen in image further below.

Photo: courtesy Francisco FloresLanda

Cement factory at Alabama and 17th, May 13, 1948.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Bode Cement factory, 1977, looking southeast across intersection of Harrison and 16th.

Photo: courtesy SFMTA, Marshall Moxon photographer, M2455_1

Harrison and 16th, 1920, looking northeast. Bryant Street powerhouse at rear right, Ocean Shore railroad crossing over Southern Pacific tracks.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org

Harrison near 17th Street, 1980.

Photo: Meg Oldman Collection, OpenSFHistory.org wnp119.00117

Cement factory with Southern Pacific train cars, c. 1976.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp25.1635