Contains 268 photos
View east on California from sidewalk between Stockton and Grant. Trademark Building, Cathay House, Old St. Mary's cathedral and rectory, Stauffer Chemical Co. Building,, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel) at left. Sing Fat Building with House of Lee, Pacific National Bank Building (333 California) at far right.
Chinatown
View east on Market from 1st Street. Ferry Building at center. Birdcage traffic signal. Mobilgas sign on Fife Building. Board of Trade Building at left, Sheldon Building at right. Most of the buildings in this view demolished. (black and white positive film)
Financial District
View West on Geary from Franklin. Municipal Railways (Muni) C-line streetcar #195 with wings livery stopped at the intersection. Hamilton Square Baptist Church at right, First Unitarian Church at far left.
Cathedral Hill
Upwards view toward the top of the Mercantile Building (aka Aronson Building), 86 3rd Street. Painted billboards for J.B Crowley Company and Taylor Instruments.
South of Market
View west toward entrance of Twin Peaks Tunnel. Municipal Railway (Muni) K-line streetcar #104 inbound. Cars waiting at traffic light. Bank of America at left. Birdcage traffic signals. Above streetcar to right, building at 2500 Market houses Sebbelov Cora Lou Confectioners.
Castro
View east on California at Sabin Place to approaching cable car with signage on front and on top for Pope & Talbot Co. 1949 centennial, before much of California Street was rebuilt. 720 California St. (then Hartford Insurance building) at left, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Hotel Yolanda with Hotel Lafayette sign on west wall, Russ Building, House of Lee, Yamato Sukiyaki in Sing Fat Building. Clunie Building in distance left, with Bank of America ad on west side. In distance, Bay Bridge, Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop.
Chinatown
View northwest across Mission Street from Trumbull just south of Mission viaduct. MSRy streetcar 40-Line Interurban #1230. Future Diamond Heights and Fairmount tract in background. St John the Evangelist Catholic Church (1893), St. John's School (1910, later demolished) and St. John's Ursuline Convent (1916) in distance right.
Mission Terrace
View north on Stockton from the top of the Stockton Tunnel toward Sacramento Street.
Nob Hill
Foreshortened telephoto view west on Market from Van Ness. Double decker Central Freeway crossing Market at Octavia. Traffic, streetcars, pedestrians. Civic Center Hotel sign visible at left, Peter Tamaras Supervisorial election billboard at right. Intersection with 12th Street on far left. Two large buildings center right are 1675 and 1666 Market.
South of Market
[Arcadia Dancing Pavilion - Eddy And Jones Streets San Francisco Calif. The Finest Dancing Pavilion in the United States - Dancing every evening and Sunday afternoon]
Tenderloin
[A Nightly Scene. Arcadia Dancing Pavilion - Eddy And Jones Streets San Francisco Calif. The Finest Dancing Pavilion in the United States - Dancing every evening and Sunday afternoon]
Tenderloin
View east on unpaved and steep Union Street toward Calhoun Terrace. Children watch as Rickenbacker automobile 'Rickenbacker 4 Wheel Brakes' on tire cover demonstrates the effectiveness of its brakes. Embarcadero Piers and Yerba Buena Island in background
Telegraph Hill
View north on Mission Street toward Randall. Market Street Railway 23-line streetcar #937 passing Cortland Paint Co. and Reed Realty. Large Lachman's furniture store billboard with clock faces San Jose Avenue. The entire block on the north side of Randall was later demolished. [0937-23B-01 SB on Mission South of Randall 1940]
Holly Park
View north toward second Cliff House from Ocean Beach. Sutro Heights at right.
Sutro Heights
Statue representing a temple guard or 'Nio Sama', typically used to guard temples in pairs, one with open mouth to represent the living, one with a closed mouth to represent the dead. ['Temple Guard' at Pacific Curios Shop Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco Zan B-7] Street address #2734. Possibly 2734 Taylor St.
Fishermans Wharf