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Contains 4894 photos

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Coit Tower Parking Lot

View down from Tower; No Columbus Statue (installed 1957). Pioneer Park.

1956 Telegraph Hill

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Market at 1st

Preparing site for Crown Zellerbach Building. Hobart Building; Hunter Dulin Building; Equitable Building in background.

1957 Downtown

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Market near Fulton

View East on Market toward 7th Street. From left, David Hewes Building, United Artists Theatre, Merrill's Drugs, Federal Hotel, Grant Building, Odd Fellows Building; Embassy Theater; Strand Theater; Hotel National.

1957 Civic Center

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Market & Duboce

Looking west from interior of bus to Twin Peaks; Safeway on right; blurry - camera movement

1962 Mint Hill

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Lombard near Hyde

Looking North on crooked section; foreign car descending hill. Lady sweeping steps; blurry

1960 Russian Hill

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California near Montgomery

View west from center of California above Montgomery, probably from cable car, looking up Nob Hill to Old St. Mary's Church, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (later Ritz-Carlton), Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels. At right, Financial Center Building (1927), later Omni Hotel, with lower stories modernized with stone sheathing. Empty lot with pedestrian safety structure at 550 California, site of Occidental Life Insurance Co. Building, completed 1960. Uphill from construction side is Home Insurance Company Building (around this time, Fireman's Fund) completed 1951 and demolished in 1983. On left, at Kearny corner, construction or demolition is underway for the International Building (601 California).

1959 Financial District