Folder: S.F. Streets-Maiden Lane-1950's.
Printed on back: "San Francisco's Maiden Lane owes its charm to history and to the work of an enterprising group of merchants, Designer Don Clever, and Welton Becket, F.A.I.A. and Associates, international architects and engineers. Variously known as Morton Street, Union Square Avenue, and Manila Avenue since the turn of the century, this narrow two-block street in downtown San Francisco had degenerated into a dirty alley where the pedestrian passed along the neglected back sides of department stores and nondescript buildings and threaded his way through a jumble of cars and delivery trucks. Now the street is closed to traffic except during certain specified hours necessary for pick-up and delivery, and the pedestrians may stroll through a lane green with plantings and filled with fashionable shops, bars, restaurants and offices...".