Van Ness Auto Row Support Structures: A Survey of Automobile-Related Buildings Many more historical photographs were available from the SFPL. Most are available at low resolution from the library's website. Assessor's photographs of the late 1940s to early 1960s are also available at the library, though not on-line. Many photographs were taken by the Department o f City Planning for its 1976 survey of historic buildings and for its Van Ness Avenue Plan of the 1980s. Finally, a photo montage of dozens of auto showrooms was published in the Christmas 1913 issue of the San Francisco Newsletter (available at CHS). These historic photos were carefully compared with extant buildings in order to determine what alterations have been made to the buildings. The most useful source for the names of occupants of buildings was the Crocker-Langley City Directory for San Francisco (later known as Polk's Crocker-Langley). By scanning the classified section of various years under the headings Automobiles, Automobile Dealers, Garages, Automobile Garages, Automobile Repair, Automobile Supplies, and so forth, one can find the occupants of these buildings. Because addresses have sometimes changed, it was important to compare the addresses given in city directories with the addresses of buildings given in the Sanborn maps. Cross-directories by address for intermittent years (1927, 1933, 1940, and 1946) and for all years after 1953 are available at the SFPL and CHS, and were also very useful. Finally, the yellow pages of PT&T telephone books from the 1930s onward were also useful, and sometimes yielded more information than the Polk' s Crocker-Langley directories did. Once occupants were identified for a cross-section of years, further city directory and yellow pages research was performed to fill the gaps, and to create a nearly complete list of occupants for each building through 1964. The daily newspapers were also a rich source of information. Newspaper clippings regarding many buildings in the study area are available at the Foundation for San Francisco's Architectural Heritage. The San Francisco Chronicle from 1880 through 1922 has now been scanned and indexed, and can be viewed online through the ProQuest website (accessible through the SFPL website). The San Francisco Call has also been scanned and indexed, and is available through two websites. Finally, background information on the automobile industry and on automobile and tire brands was gleaned from entries in Wikipedia. In a few instances minor discrepancies were found among various Wikipedia entries. Due to time constraints it was not possible to check this information against other sources. All of the above information, gathered through archival sources and site surveys, was considered and collated for the historic context statement presented below. Creation of hierarchies: business types, dates of use. longevity, integrity In order to judge which buildings have significance under the criteria of the California Register, these buildings must be compared against each other, and must also be looked at in the context ofthe history of the automobile industry in San Francisco. 7 , OCR Text: Van Ness Auto Row Support Structures: A Survey of Automobile-Related Buildings Many more historical photographs were available from the SFPL. Most are available at low resolution from the library's website. Assessor's photographs of the late 1940s to early 1960s are also available at the library, though not on-line. Many photographs were taken by the Department o f City Planning for its 1976 survey of historic buildings and for its Van Ness Avenue Plan of the 1980s. Finally, a photo montage of dozens of auto showrooms was published in the Christmas 1913 issue of the San Francisco Newsletter (available at CHS). These historic photos were carefully compared with extant buildings in order to determine what alterations have been made to the buildings. The most useful source for the names of occupants of buildings was the Crocker-Langley City Directory for San Francisco (later known as Polk's Crocker-Langley). By scanning the classified section of various years under the headings Automobiles, Automobile Dealers, Garages, Automobile Garages, Automobile Repair, Automobile Supplies, and so forth, one can find the occupants of these buildings. Because addresses have sometimes changed, it was important to compare the addresses given in city directories with the addresses of buildings given in the Sanborn maps. Cross-directories by address for intermittent years (1927, 1933, 1940, and 1946) and for all years after 1953 are available at the SFPL and CHS, and were also very useful. Finally, the yellow pages of PT&T telephone books from the 1930s onward were also useful, and sometimes yielded more information than the Polk' s Crocker-Langley directories did. Once occupants were identified for a cross-section of years, further city directory and yellow pages research was performed to fill the gaps, and to create a nearly complete list of occupants for each building through 1964. The daily newspapers were also a rich source of information. Newspaper clippings regarding many buildings in the study area are available at the Foundation for San Francisco's Architectural Heritage. The San Francisco Chronicle from 1880 through 1922 has now been scanned and indexed, and can be viewed online through the ProQuest website (accessible through the SFPL website). The San Francisco Call has also been scanned and indexed, and is available through two websites. Finally, background information on the automobile industry and on automobile and tire brands was gleaned from entries in Wikipedia. In a few instances minor discrepancies were found among various Wikipedia entries. Due to time constraints it was not possible to check this information against other sources. All of the above information, gathered through archival sources and site surveys, was considered and collated for the historic context statement presented below. Creation of hierarchies: business types, dates of use. longevity, integrity In order to judge which buildings have significance under the criteria of the California Register, these buildings must be compared against each other, and must also be looked at in the context ofthe history of the automobile industry in San Francisco. 7 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,A through B Name file,Automobile related buildings,AUTO RELATED BUILDINGS IN SF - USEFUL FOR REVIEW LOCALLY_007.pdf,AUTO RELATED BUILDINGS IN SF - USEFUL FOR REVIEW LOCALLY_007.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: AUTO RELATED BUILDINGS IN SF - USEFUL FOR REVIEW LOCALLY_007.PDF, AUTO RELATED BUILDINGS IN SF - USEFUL FOR REVIEW LOCALLY_007.pdf 1 Page 1