Produce Market
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
The old produce market once covered this part of today's downtown.
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