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Embarcadero Freeway Jul 1958

Elevated view from Ferry Building northwest to later stages of Embarcadero Freeway construction, old Produce District, and Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. Ferry Station Post Office, Jack's Waterfront Hangout at left. Metropolitan Chevron service station, State of California Department of Employment, Wellman Peck Co, Bemis Bros. Bag Co., National Ice and Cold Storage buildings. Large building at upper left built 1907 as the American Biscuit Company building on the corner of Battery & Broadway, still stands 2022. Alcatraz, Mt. Tamalpais in distance.
Photographer Unknown (Courtesy of a Private Collector)

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