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'''The arches graced the nameplate of the Fillmore District News in 1919.''' | |||
''Image: courtesy of [http://newfillmore.com The New Fillmore] newspaper archives.'' | |||
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Revision as of 16:08, 22 July 2014
Unfinished History
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