Midtown Mid-century
Unfinished History
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A trip down Market Street in the 1940s from approximately 12th Street, driving east across Van Ness, past 11th Street and 10th Street where the Merchandise Mart Building (later Twitter) is visible on the left, and the Fox Theater on the right. Eventually it proceeds as far as 6th Street, turns south and drives as far as Mission Street.
Video: from "Lost Landscapes 11, 2016" by Rick Prelinger, courtesy Prelinger Archives
Aerial shot of midtown, with Civic Center in foreground, including the Fox Theater at lower center on Market Street.
Photographer unknown
MUNI streetcars rumbling up Market between 8th and 9th in the 1940s.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA