The San Francisco call. [volume], July 14, 1907, Page 6, Image 6

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FOURTH INSTALMENT OF
RARE
PHOTOGRAPHS
OF OLD
SAN FRANCISCO
T HE C: photographs ; ; o! old s San Francisco, which . -The Sunday. Call if*p
scnts todayj are of a character, that 1 will 'awaken i vivid interest f*
v every, lover: of sthose early eras". :The picture of f the former post
,; office » in front ; of the : old tf>laza on -Kearny street, with the useful and
bften i h'igh'iy.'*ornam^ occasion of
"a rally /of; the law. : and: order; party, is "one which attracts attention and
.invites a half regretful comparison,' with ;the structure of today. Those
were^tirnes when people waded through mud, slush of swirling , dust » for
•their/ mail- aritii esteemed it; lightly ;boiaght fat any "price.'
' -The old custom house:. in .1866; stood .where it \u25a0 remained for "many
:" year's « after}^'at j the (corner /of Battery and Washington streets. Thoasanda
of people "t smimated ".by . thousands r of \ hopes have streamed through that
: ancient -building and many - silent tragedies have been enacted within its
o/_ Old .Taylor street;^tands^forth^with. its^wooden sidewalks and its twen
i horse : cars .like ' a .yerkabe -revival \u25a0of those .times ; when the hbrsecar .was the
v. thing.." The ': church l shown in- the; picture, is the old Second CongregationaK
}. no\yJ • theTPlyrnqutlv" The streetcar seen -was one of the cars of the 'Central
railway 'line which went up Taylor strcctT turned down Geary, up Stockton,
along ; Post, up" Keafnyy and ; finally] into] MraKet ; street so reaching the ferry.
Hjffirhevjewish cemetery: on Mission -street between Seventeenth and
Nineteenth ' stood \u25a0-where * now the Mis sion \u25a0 high " school raises its standard.
flffiwag^ j^tl^eypn d The Willows, that famou> old resort which preceded
{gardens.. past the burying ground was the "road
which stretched away for miles as far as the. crest -of
Twin« peaks. On the other side of the road was a low, swampy s district
near| Mission -and 'Howard^streets; Some i. 15 lor 20 ytars^agosair the bodies
wcreSrembved^to: the rnewcr^burying :at i'Matea'v-'^'H-V-''
' n Another^ picture of - absorbing interest i is ; that * of , th<e street
jfwhjirf fbnTstea^n^r / day; ih\lß7CLf^l tjdoes s hot take ; a ; pioneer to remember ' this
'^though 5 many -of its-^ characteristics of. a much earlier period.
picture "islseenPttheibustwhJch crushed Jpasserigers to* and
Ifromlthje^^rig^nalSh^us^e.'tnext
|Owt»fpoint>warehouseMs£Somewh
,' where .the New. \u25a0 World jlahded" : :her passengers arid freight 1 froA
Sacramento is';a -prominent- feature' n •>- ' : /
The San Francisco Sunday Call.