Contains 285 photos
Elevated view west down Market Street from the Ferry Building tower. [DPW A5949], Pacific Telephone Building , Southern Pacific Building on left, Fisk Building with Mobilgas sign atop Fife Bulding, Shell Building, Standard Oil Building, Mills Tower, Russ Building, 57 Sign on right.
Downtown
View southeast towards Geary & Stockton. Great White Fleet Decorations. Temporary building in square, Whittell Building, City of Paris, Call Building in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View from St. Francis Elevator, at left center, 44 Montgomery, 575 Market (under construction) and McKesson Building at Market and Post rise above Hunter-Dulin and Hobart Buildings. At Right, the Central Tower (formerly the Call Buidling) and Pacific Telephone line up. Bay Bridge in the distance.
Downtown
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
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 towards Telegraph Hill. Financial District, North Beach, Coit Tower, Transamerica Pyramid, Bank of America Building, Sir Francis Drake Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
View East on Market Street. Emporium Bldg in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Looking North Bank of America Bldg.
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest across Market to Golden Gate Theater, with Alexis Smith in 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas' playing.
Tenderloin
Aerial view southeast to Financial District, Embarcadero Freeway, Bay Bridge, South of Market. Masonic Temple and other Nob Hill buildings at far left center. Bethlehem Steel Corp. Building / 100 California (1960, Welton D. Becket architect) at upper left in front of Ferry Building.
Lower Nob Hill
View northeast over Noe Valley to downtown, Bay Bridge and East Bay. St. Philip the Apostle Church to right of center, Castro St. Hill, Alvarado School at center.
Upper Market
Looking up Market Street from Chritmas Tree Point, Bank of America Building, St. Mary's Cathedral
Twin Peaks
Looking southeast. Crocker Center (McKesson) under construction at Post & Market, Equitable Building, Hunter Dulin Building, Wells Fargo (44 Montgomery) Building, Pacific Telephone Building, Chronicle, Examiner Mutual Savings Bank and Central Tower (former Call Building) at right. Third Street at right.
Nob Hill
Looking south from California St. Mark Hopkins Hotel at left.
Nob Hill
View southwest from Telegraph Hill across Washington Square (with landscaping growing in) towards Russian Hill. Columbus Avenue not yet cut through. Filbert St at lower right. [984. Russian Hill]
Telegraph Hill