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: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco
Arches from the PPIE on Fillmore being torn down in 1943.
Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco