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'''The former site of the produce market in downtown is now a modern office development and the small park area.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | '''The former site of the produce market in downtown is now a modern office development and the small park area.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ||
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The old produce market once occupied part of today's downtown, the areas near the docks stretching northward from the Ferry Building. You can see the low-rise buildings going off this 1947 photo to the top and right (west and north), and the produce market started right in that area. More photos below. Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA
These are the produce market owners who tried to fight the city's redevelopment plans for the site of the market. Joe Carcione is the young man 4th from the left, who later became TV's Greengrocer. Photo: San Francisco History Room, SF Public Library
Looking north on Davis near Washington, Southern Pacific Building on Market Street visible in distance. Today this view is blocked by the Embarcadero Center and other highrises. Photo: San Francisco History Room, SF Public Library
In these days the old produce market was the heart of Italian San Francisco, dominated by families from Genoa and the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland, Ticino. Photo: San Francisco History Room, SF Public Library
View westward on Washington from apx. Davis in the mid-1950s. Photo: San Francisco History Room, SF Public Library
Same view west on Washington of the Golden Gateway Apartments and the edge of the INS building (center rear). This was the former site of the downtown produce market. Photo: Chris Carlsson
The former site of the produce market in downtown is now a modern office development and the small park area. Photo: Chris Carlsson
--Chris Carlsson