View from Fairmont
View from Fairmont Tower towards Mark Hopkins Hotel
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Contains 9006 photos
View E from Fairmont
View from Fairmont Tower to Financial District and Bay Bridge
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California & Larkin Sts.
View east on California from inside car. Cala Foods (later Trader Joe's) in distance on right.
Polk Gulch
California near Grant
View east on California St., International Building, Yamato Sukiyaki. Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on west side at left. Metropolitan Life Insurance Building at right.
Chinatown
View from Mark Hopkins
Elevated view looking steeply down from Mark Hopkins Hotel to Mason Street, with Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club) at left and Fairmont Hotel at right. Intersection of Mason and Sacramento Streets at top with Park Lane Apartments and Brocklebank Apartments at northern corners. At upper left, the brown house on the corner of Sacramento St. and Sproule Lane is the Sproule Mansion (1907-1967), built for George Whittell and sold in 1917 to William Sproule (1858-1935), president of Wells Fargo Express, the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Pacific-Union Club. It was then extensively remodeled by Bliss & Saville architects. It was demolished in November, 1967 after an unsuccessful fight for its preservation.
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View from Mark Hopkins
View northwest to Presidio and Golden Gate Bridge. At left, Grace Cathedral under construction. Chambord Apartments. At right Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, Comstock Apartments built 1961, behind. At far right, 1170 Sacramento apartment building, completed 1963. Huntington Park and Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion) at bottom.
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View from Mark Hopkins
View north to Russian Hill with apartment towers and Bay. Brocklebank Apartments and Alcatraz at right. Sproule mansion at lower left. Park Lane Apartments at center. Washington Mason Cable Car Power House between apartment buildings at left. At far left, 1170 Sacramento St., built 1963.
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View SE from Mark Hopkins
View southeast from Top of the Mark to Financial District and Bay Bridge. Russ, Alexander, Standard Oil, Equitable (completed 1955), Hunter-Dulin, Crocker Bank and Crocker Buildings. At right, White House department store, Sutter-Stockton Parking Garae, Chronicle Building with modern cladding (later removed), Pacific Telephone Building. In distance, Union 76 clock tower. At far left, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building.
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View from Mark Hopkins
View from Top of the Mark down California St. Bay Bridge in distance
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View from Mark Hopkins
Elevated view northeast to Fairmont Tower (1962), Chinatown and North Beach. 10 Miller Place (1963) under construction at right.
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View from Fairmont Hotel
View southeast from Fairmont tower to Financial District. International Building (completed 1951), Russ Building, Equitable Life Building, Elevated view toward Hunter-Dulin Building, 111 Sutter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building, later Cogswell College and Ritz Carlton Hotel at lower right.
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View from Mark Hopkins
View northeast over North Beach. Coit tower at extreme left
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GGIE
Tower of the Sun at GGIE (Golden Gate International Exposition) from Court of the Seven Seas. on Treasure Island 1939-1940.
Treasure Island
GGIE
Flower bed on California Avenue at GGIE (Golden Gate International Exposition). on Treasure Island, 1939-1940.
Treasure Island
GGIE
GGIE (Golden Gate International Exposition) from an arriving ferryboat. Tower of the Sun, Elephant Towers, Key System Buses. Administration building .
Treasure Island