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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | '''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | ||
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'''Fillmore Street at Sutter looking north, 1921. At left is a battery-powered delivery truck and behind it is a Model T Ford jitney, a competitor to the United Railroads service.''' | |||
''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco'' | |||
[[Image:westaddi$fillmore-ppie-towers.jpg]] | [[Image:westaddi$fillmore-ppie-towers.jpg]] | ||
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'''In 1943, the iron towers that had crowned each intersection of Fillmore Street for decades, originally built as a gateway to the [[SAILING TO BYZANTIUM: 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition| 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition]] at the Marina, were torn down as scrap metal for WWII.''' | '''In 1943, the iron towers that had crowned each intersection of Fillmore Street for decades, originally built as a gateway to the [[SAILING TO BYZANTIUM: 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition| 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition]] at the Marina, were torn down as scrap metal for WWII.''' | ||
''Photo: | ''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco'' | ||
[[Image:1919 fillmore district news nameplate.jpg]] | |||
'''The arches graced the nameplate of the Fillmore District News in 1919.''' | |||
''Image: courtesy of [http://newfillmore.com The New Fillmore] newspaper archives.'' | |||
[[Image:westaddi$ppie-fillmore-scrap-1943.jpg]] | [[Image:westaddi$ppie-fillmore-scrap-1943.jpg]] | ||
'''Arches from the PPIE on Fillmore being torn down in 1943.'''<br>''Photo: | '''Arches from the PPIE on Fillmore being torn down in 1943.'''<br>''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco'' | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:59, 5 September 2014
Unfinished History
Fillmore Street at Sutter looking north, 1921. At left is a battery-powered delivery truck and behind it is a Model T Ford jitney, a competitor to the United Railroads service.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco
In 1943, the iron towers that had crowned each intersection of Fillmore Street for decades, originally built as a gateway to the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition at the Marina, were torn down as scrap metal for WWII.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco
The arches graced the nameplate of the Fillmore District News in 1919.
Image: courtesy of The New Fillmore newspaper archives.
Arches from the PPIE on Fillmore being torn down in 1943.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco