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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: March 20, 2014
Caption: Ferry Tower Panorama, part 3
Additional Description: Panorama captions, presented left to right:

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.

Commercial Street (82.5 feet wide) no longer reaches the Embarcadero.

While teamsters drink at the Loop Bar, their thirsty horses refresh themselves at the special horse trough installed by the S.P.C.A. with running water piped in.

Big iron-wheel drays were built to carry heavy cargo right off incoming ships. Waterfront paving has to bear the heaviest loads. Hand-hewn basalt paving blocks were the longest lasting, but made streets the most expensive annual item in the city budget.

Impressive U.S. Customs House in the background on Washington & Jackson had been finished in 1911 – still stands in 1999.

On Clay Street (82.5 feet wide) an electric trolley arrives on the Embarcadero, to swing around in front of the Ferry Loop. Clay Street no longer reaches the waterfront.
Submitted: April 1, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p269799
File Size: 3.346 Megabytes

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