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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: March 20, 2014
Caption: Ferry Tower Panorama, part 2
Additional Description: Panorama captions, presented left to right:

”Ensign Saloon served more lager beer than the rest. Seamen drank steam beer; commuters could pay for lager.” #2 East; Henry Dree’s Oyster Bar.

Market Street (120 feet wide) with four street car tracks, joined by a cable car slot coming off Sacramento Street on the right. On the left, Steuart Street comes into Market, followed by Spear and Main streets, father west.

Advertised Hotel Rates: Terminal Hotel on Market, rooms started at $1.00 or $1.500 with bath. Bay Hotel: 50 cents & up; Other hotels: 30 cents & up; Cosmopolitan – 20 cents per cubicle.

OWL has been spelled backwards so that you would ask about this monumental error with the hoped-for result: remember OWL when you bought your next cigar.
Submitted: April 1, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p269798
File Size: 3.360 Megabytes

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