These amazing color snaps show what San Francisco looked life in the 1950s.
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| Cable car, San Francisco |
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| Cable car, San Francisco |
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| California Street, San Francisco |
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| Chinatown from California St. looking up Grant Ave., San Francisco |
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| Chinatown, San Francisco |
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| Cow Palace, San Francisco |
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| Ferry Building, San Francisco |
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| Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco |
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| Fisherman's Wharf, Taylor Street, San Francisco |
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| Flower stand, San Francisco |
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| Grant Ave. on Grant at Sacramento looking north, China Town, San Francisco |
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| Grant Avenue between Clay and Washington, San Francisco |
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| Grant Avenue looking north toward California Street, San Francisco |
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| Lions Convention, San Francisco |
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| Looking east down California St in San Francisco |
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| Looking east down California St in San Francisco |
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| Looking west along Sutter St., San Francisco |
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| Looking west up Nob Hill in San Francisco |
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| Marina Jetty with Chevy, San Francisco |
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| Market at Mason Street, San Francisco, 1952 |
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| Northeast corner of Ellis Street at Taylor Street, San Francisco |
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| Powell Street cable car, San Francisco |
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| Powell Street, near Bush, looking south, San Francisco |
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| Powell Street, San Francisco |
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| 'Redlick's 17 Reasons Why', Market and Castro |
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| San Francisco cable car turntable |
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| San Francisco cable cars |
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| San Francisco cable cars |
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| San Francisco Marina |
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| San Francisco parking lot |
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| San Francisco street scenes |
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| San Francisco street scenes |
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| San Francisco street scenes |
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| San Francisco street scenes |
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| San Francisco street scenes |
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| San Francisco street scenes |
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| San Francisco street scenes |
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| San Francisco street scenes |
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| San Francisco street scenes |
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| Whitney's Cliff House, San Francisco |
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| 1954 Buick Century and house, San Francisco |
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| Buick 1950 and Mercury 1949 on San Francisco streets |
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| Bush St. & Grant Av. in San Francisco |
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| Cable car of the San Francisco Municipal Railway on the California Street Line near Stockton Street |
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| Cable car on Powell Street, San Francisco |













































