Skyline from Yerba Buena
Bay Bridge and San Francisco skyline from Yerba Buena Island
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Contains 3365 photos
Market & Castro
looking down Market St from Market and Clayton
Clarendon Heights
Ferry Building
View from Ferry Boat with Skyline. Welcome To San Francisco - sign on the Ferry Bldg. was replaced by a Port Of San Francisco one in late 1951 or early 1952; the Mobilgas sign looks stripped of paint - prior to mid 1946, it had a white backround, replaced with a red one; the PG&E Annex bldg. is not visible (would be on the center left edge of picture obscuring the multi story building in the distance). It was completed in 1947.
Waterfront
Top of the Mark
View northwest to thick fog coming in through Golden Gate. Palace of Fine Arts in distance left. Marin Headlands and Mt. Tamalpais. Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on top. Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928. At far left, Chambord Apartments at Sacramento and Jones. Grace Cathedral with bell tower at lower left.
Downtown
View from Mark Hopkins
East to Bay Bridge/ Ferry Building/ Chinatown
Nob Hill
View from Mark Hopkins
View east to Financial District skyscrapers, including Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel) Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building 315 Montgomery, Russ Building, Alexander Building, Standard Oil Building . Ferry Building, Bay Bridge in distance. PG&E Building annex in center distance built 1947-48, in late stages of construction here. Metropolitan Life Insurance Building at bottom center. Clunie Building at California and Montgomery with large Lincoln National Life ad on west side. At far left center, original Federal Reserve Bank on Sansome.
Nob Hill
Top of the Mark
View northeast across Chinatown and North Beach to Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill. St. Francis of Assisi Church.
Nob Hill
Top of the Mark
to Yerba Buena Island/ Chinatown
Nob Hill
Top of the Mark
View east to Appraiser's Building, original Federal Reserve Bank Building, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Clunie Building with Bank of America sign on side, Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, Ferry Building. Chinatown at lower left. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building at lower right.
Nob Hill
Top of the Mark
View east to Financial District / Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island. S-P sign atop Southern Pacific Building in distance was installed March 1954 and removed in September 1961.
Nob Hill
View NE from Mark Hopkins
View from Top of the Mark looking towards Telegraph Hill
Nob Hill
Top of the Mark
View northeast to Telegraph Hill, Angel Island, Alcatraz, North Beach. Fairmont and Brocklebank Apartments in foreground.
Nob Hill
View from Top of the Mark
Looking north to Russian Hill, Alcatraz, cable car barn. In foreground, roof of Sproule Mansion, Park Lane Apartments, Brocklebank Apartments.
Nob Hill
View from Twin Peaks
View down Market toward Downtown. The Equitable Life bldg. is just visible to the left of the far end of Market St. (completed June 1955)
Clarendon Heights
Twin Peaks Looking North
Tank Hill, Mt. Olympus, Buena Vista Park, and Haight-Ashbury
Twin Peaks