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San Francisco, 1929. "Franklin sedan at Pioneer Park, Telegraph Hill." The view-blocking "funeral urn" balustrade, like the Franklin, proved unpopular with motorists and soon vanished. 5x7 glass negative by Chris Helin. View full size.
That great car is a 1929 Franklin Victoria Brougham. A 2 door close coupled sedan. I restored an exact copy in 1972 after pulling it out of a Long Beach N.Y. garage. Considered a full classic today, back then it could only be purchased by the very wealthy, as the depression got under way.
But now it's trees that have unaccountably been allowed to obscure much of the view from up there.
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