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1952. "Pine Street at Montgomery, San Francisco." Looking toward the Matson and PG&E buildings on Market Street. 8x10 acetate negative. View full size.
Bank of America is now home to a Walgreens. The Pacific Stock Exchange, with its majestic Art-Deco statues in relief, is now a gym. Every other visible business is now a Starbucks.
During the 1980s I worked in both of those named buildings at different times. Pacific Gas & Electric Company had taken over the Matson Building by then. It also had its own modern high rise half a block away, built in 1971, as well as two leased buildings for various offices on adjacent corners. Downsizing and outsourcing has greatly reduced its real estate footprint, my own department gooing poof not long after I changed careers.
Attention ladies and gentlemen, air raid shelter first street on your left.
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