Contains 268 photos
Elevated view west down Market Street from the Ferry Building tower. [DPW A5949], Pacific Telephone Building , Southern Pacific Building on left, Fisk Building with Mobilgas sign atop Fife Bulding, Shell Building, Standard Oil Building, Mills Tower, Russ Building, 57 Sign on right.
Downtown
View north to little boy (believed to be Jefferson Peyser) with balloon in Hamilton Square. Rear of St. Dominic's Church in background.
Lower Pacific Heights
View east from Nob Hill above Powell Street between Sacramento and Clay to Ferry Building over Chinatown. Earthquake and fire ruins exist, but much reconstruction has occurred. In left center distance, Appraisers Building, Montgomery Block, U.S. Customs House under construction. Bank of Italy Building at Montgomery and Clay. Donaldina Cameron House at Sacramento and Joice street at right. At far right, Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects). Posters on fence on Powell for the last week of David Warfield's engagement at the Alcazar Theatre and the Emporium's grand reopening on Market Street. Warfield's run concluded on October 10th and the Emporium, then California's largest store, reopened on October 1, 1908. (AS)
Nob Hill
View southeast across intersection to approaching Market Street Railway (MSRy) 4-Line car #226.
Presidio Terrace
View east to new Castro Street Muni Metro Station on right and across Castro, 17th St., Market intersection. In distance left, tower of Trinity Methodist Church (Market & 16th Street, built 1929, destroyed by fire October 11,1981). At far right, Twin Peaks bar.
Castro
Elevated view southwest across Market Street to intersection with 3rd Street and Examiner Building (with large vertical electric sign, United States Lines, Pechner Shoes, Wechter's shop for men, United Cigars), Call Building (later Central Tower, with Owl Drugs and Stiegler Bros.), Kamm Building (with Sorenson Jewelers). Market St. Railway (MSRy) #1711. Lundstrom Hats, Wellendorf Book Co., El Sidelo.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northeast from St. Francis Hotel; over Union Square to Stockton & Post Streets. Hotel Plaza, Standard Oil Building (completed 1922), Whittell Building. Schroth Building (1908, architect Cunningham & Politeo) at center.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view south on Steuart from across Market. Crowd assembled across the street at the site of the Preparedness Day bombing. Alameda Cafe at left. Pacific Hotel, Hotel Stockholm.
Financial District
View northeast to workers in front of The Boston Restaurant; Studebaker billboard on top of building; (duplicate wnp37.02880)
Polk Gulch
View northeast across Bayshore Boulevard between Jerrold and Oakdale. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 25-Line streetcar #284 southbound with zip strip livery, White King Soap Sign with clock, Standard Station, Christmas Tree lot, Potrero Hill in the background
Produce Market
View northeast across intersection of 10th and Market
Civic Center
Looking East. White House Club, Lunch Room.
South of Market
View south down 9th to Potrero Hill in far distance. American Automatic Electric Sales Co. 325 9th, at left. Buildings at left (and some others) still stand, 2022.
South of Market
View west from center of Folsom toward 6th Street. 36-line streetcar tracks, Signal Gasoline on right. Cozy Corner Cafe on the northwest corner (right). Trees at Columbia Square on left. Park Hotel. Birdcage traffic signals.
South of Market
Elevated view north to Market Street Railway (MSRy) #33-Line #56 negotiating sharp turn onto Clayton. Mt. Olympus and Triumph of Light statue in background right.
Clarendon Heights