Contains 3365 photos
Coit Tower parking lot in Pioneer Park. View north to Alcatraz, Angel Island, Mt. Tamalpais; aircraft carrier with planes on flight deck. At right, top of 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
Telegraph Hill
Looking east from Lincoln Blvd over Crissy Field to San Francisco skyline.
Presidio
View west from water of reconstruction on north wing of the Ferry Building after a large fire in April 1955. Southern pacific Building with S-P sign on roof. Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop.
Waterfront
12 noon; looking west from bay; Southern Pacific Building (S-P sign removed in September 1961); Shell Building; Russ Building, Bethlehem Steel Corp. Building / 100 California (1960, Welton D. Becket architect), Mark Hopkins Hotel.
Financial District
View from bay towards waterfront piers, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower. Freighter 'Seattle Star' tied up at pier in foreground.
Telegraph Hill
Elevated view east over Crissy Field to Marina, Russian and Nob Hills, downtown.
Presidio
Market Street/ Russ Building/City Hall/U.S. Mint/Bay Bridge
Downtown
View east from Buena Vista Park to Civic Center, Downtown, Bay Bridge and East Bay hills. S-P sign atop Southern Pacific Building was installed March 1954 and removed in September 1961.
Downtown
Looking east to Chinatown/ Treasure Island/ Fairmont Tower under construction
Nob Hill
looking west to Bay Bridge/ SF Skyline/ '55 Chevy
SF Bay
looking south to the Financial District, the Equitable Life Bldg. doesn't have the digital clock/thermometer at the top (added in early 1957); and the new Union 76 tower looks completed (late summer 1955).
Telegraph Hill
View north to Park Lane Apartments, Brocklebank Apartments, Alcatraz, Angel Island, Russian Hill. Gas storage tank at foot of Powell Street.
Downtown
View northeast from the St. Francis Hotel Tower, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Transamerica Tower.
Downtown
North end of Alcatraz, viewed from boat in the bay. Industrial buildings, powerhouse smokestack, water tower, prison building, lighthouse, staff apartments.
SF Bay
Looking north from Lincoln Blvd in Presidio to Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Headlands.
Presidio