Cliff House Aerial
Aerial view of 3rd Cliff House and Point Lobos Ave attractions. Entrance to Sutro Baths at upper left. View east.
SutroBuilding
Contains 2408 photos
Original Beach Chalet
Ocean Beach. Moving original Beach Chalet to new location
Sunset Outer
Original Beach Chalet
View north. Storms of 1914 undermined the foundation of the original Beach Chalet on the west side of Great Highway.
Ocean Beach
Playland at the Beach
"This is IT" cafe. Early view of Whitney's food concessions, home of the iconic chocolate-dipped It's It ice cream cookie sandwich
Richmond
Market near Mason
Elevated view down Market Street East from Hewes Building, Admission Day Native Sons Monument, Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Davies Theatre, Bank of America Headquarters (One Powell), Flood Building, Humboldt Bank Building with Bank of America signage, Kress, Hale Bros. with KPO radio towers on roof, 4 streetcar tracks. [DPW A2622]
Downtown
6th & Market
Elevated view north from top of the Hewes Building to Nob Hill. Taylor St. at left. Mark Hopkins Hotel opened December, 1926. [DPW A627]
South of Market
Market Street at Drumm
Elevated view east from Market and California. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building, Lincoln Hotel (115 Market), Lincoln Tailoring Co., C.C. Morse & Co. seeds. Horses drinking from trough at lower left. [7114 6-23-21] [DPW 7114]
Downtown
View down Market
looking east from 6th and Market, Mechanics Bank Building, Russ Building, Flood Building, Hunter Dulin Building, Hobart Building, Call Building, Yerba Buena Island, Pacific Telephone Building, Native Sons (Admission Day) Monument [DPW A625]
Downtown
3rd from Market
Elevated view south on 3rd Street from Market Street. Ad on Examiner Building for Bay Bridge souvenir edition. Call Building on right with Owl Drug Co. in corner retail space. United Cigar Store, Hotel King with Hotel Doric sign on side, Kane's Log Cabin Dairy Lunch Cafeteria, Aronson Building in center distance, Market St. Railway Co. (MSRy) 6 and 15-Line streetcars. [DPW A4957]
Downtown
View of Downtown
Taken from the top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel, looking East to bay, Yerba Buena Island, Old Federal Reserve Bank, Ferry Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, Commercial Union Assurance Bldg.(315 Montgomery) Russ Building under construction, Old Standard Oil Building. [DPW A122]
Downtown
3rd & King
View north from center of 3rd to Southern Pacific passenger depot on left, Old Corner Lunch on right. [3rd Street North of King Street DPW A5530]
South Beach
3rd & King
View north from center of 3rd to Southern Pacific passenger depot on left, Old Corner Lunch on right. [A-5764 3D St N'ly from King Street] [DPW A5764]
South of Market
Sansome near California
View west on Sansome to northwest corner of California, Bank of California building.
Financial District
Old Hall of Justice
View across Portsmouth Square toward reconstruction of the Hall of Justice on Kearny Street (now the site of the Hilton Hotel)
North Beach
California & Leidesdorff
View north on Leidesdorff to Bank of California on northwest corner; the building was originally the London and San Francisco Bank, built in 1873-1874. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire and was rehabbed by Willis Polk, who added a short top story, shown here under construction. Side of Merchant's Exchange Building in foreground left.
Financial District