Auto Row on Van Ness - Revision history

Roryc: changed credit on '''Van Ness Avenue south at Eddy Street, with Auto Row well established in this 1929" photo which came from CR collection

2016-10-05T20:15:15Z

changed credit on '''Van Ness Avenue south at Eddy Street, with Auto Row well established in this 1929" photo which came from CR collection

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	'''Van Ness Avenue south at Eddy Street, with Auto Row well established in this 1929 photo.'''		'''Van Ness Avenue south at Eddy Street, with Auto Row well established in this 1929 photo.'''

	''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy ~~Charles Ruiz~~ collection''		''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy C.R. collection''

	[[Image:Chevrolet dealership at Van Ness Avenue and Sacramento Street 1933 AAD-4649.jpg]]		[[Image:Chevrolet dealership at Van Ness Avenue and Sacramento Street 1933 AAD-4649.jpg]]

Roryc: changed credit on "San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library" photo which came from CR collection

2016-10-05T20:14:16Z

changed credit on "San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library" photo which came from CR collection

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	'''Van Ness Avenue south at California Street, with an H-streetcar making its way through "auto row" in 1936.'''		'''Van Ness Avenue south at California Street, with an H-streetcar making its way through "auto row" in 1936.'''

	''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy ~~Charles Ruiz~~ collection''		''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy C.R. collection''

	Interesting to recall that while 30,000 citizens were mobilized to [[The Freeway Revolt\|stop freeway building]] in San Francisco (the very same elevated, pedestrian-free streets McClintock had come to endorse as an industry flack) thousands more, mostly African American and white youth, staged a vigorous [[Segregation_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement_in_San_Francisco\|civil rights campaign]] along auto row, demanding that blacks be given equal treatment in hiring by auto dealers, especially Don Lee’s Cadillac dealership.		Interesting to recall that while 30,000 citizens were mobilized to [[The Freeway Revolt\|stop freeway building]] in San Francisco (the very same elevated, pedestrian-free streets McClintock had come to endorse as an industry flack) thousands more, mostly African American and white youth, staged a vigorous [[Segregation_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement_in_San_Francisco\|civil rights campaign]] along auto row, demanding that blacks be given equal treatment in hiring by auto dealers, especially Don Lee’s Cadillac dealership.

Ccarlsson: moved photo here

2014-09-19T21:08:24Z

moved photo here

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	''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''		''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

			[[Image:tendrnob$van-ness-1930.jpg]]

			'''Van Ness and Sacramento, 1930'''

			''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''

	[[Image:Van-Ness-south-at-California-w-Auto-Row-and-H-streetcar-1936-SFPL.jpg\|720px]]		[[Image:Van-Ness-south-at-California-w-Auto-Row-and-H-streetcar-1936-SFPL.jpg\|720px]]

Ccarlsson at 23:19, 15 September 2014

2014-09-15T23:19:36Z

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	''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''		''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

	[[category:Civic Center]] [[category:Roads]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:Transit]]		[[category:Civic Center]] [[category:Roads]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:Transit]] [[category:Polk Gulch]]

Ccarlsson: Created page with '''' Unfinished History ''' Automobiles [[Automobiles Take Over San Francisco Streets|poured in...'

2014-09-15T22:45:07Z

Created page with '''' Unfinished History ''' Automobiles [[Automobiles Take Over San Francisco Streets|poured in...'

New page

''' Unfinished History '''

Automobiles [[Automobiles Take Over San Francisco Streets|poured into]] San Francisco and California during the first decades of the 20th century. In 1915, Ford already had a [[Harrison Street Industrial Corridor|factory at 21st and Harrison]] in the Mission making Model-T’s, and by the mid-1920s, the new car business was fully ensconced along Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco:

[[Image:Van-Ness-Ave-south-at-Eddy-Auto-Row-1929-SFPL.jpg|720px]]

'''Van Ness Avenue south at Eddy Street, with Auto Row well established in this 1929 photo.'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection''

[[Image:Chevrolet dealership at Van Ness Avenue and Sacramento Street 1933 AAD-4649.jpg]]

'''Chevrolet dealer at Van Ness and Sacramento, 1933.'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

[[Image:Avenue Rambler dealership August 1964 AAD-4645.jpg]]

'''Rambler dealer, Van Ness Avenue, August 1964.'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

[[Image:Interior of Don Lee automobile showroom at Van Ness Avenue and O'Farrell Street 1929 AAD-4656.jpg]]

'''Interior of Don Lee Cadillac showroom (now AMC Theaters).'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

[[Image:Don Lee automobile dealership at Van Ness Avenue and O'Farrell Street 1928 AAD-4657.jpg]]

'''Don Lee Cadillac dealership, Van Ness and O'Farrell, 1928.'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

[[Image:Van-Ness-south-at-California-w-Auto-Row-and-H-streetcar-1936-SFPL.jpg|720px]]

'''Van Ness Avenue south at California Street, with an H-streetcar making its way through "auto row" in 1936.'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection''

Interesting to recall that while 30,000 citizens were mobilized to [[The Freeway Revolt|stop freeway building]] in San Francisco (the very same elevated, pedestrian-free streets McClintock had come to endorse as an industry flack) thousands more, mostly African American and white youth, staged a vigorous [[Segregation_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement_in_San_Francisco|civil rights campaign]] along auto row, demanding that blacks be given equal treatment in hiring by auto dealers, especially Don Lee’s Cadillac dealership.

[[Image:Crowd cheering settlement with auto dealers 1964 AAK-0884.jpg]]

'''Crowd cheering civil rights employment settlement with auto dealers, 1964.'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

[[category:Civic Center]] [[category:Roads]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:Transit]]