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Hyde near Francisco

Cable Car #515 ascending Hyde Street between Bay and Francisco. Ghirardelli clock tower, MUNI pier, Aquatic Park.

1960 Russian Hill

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California & Montgomery

Looking West from center of California. Metroplitan Life Insurance Building (later Cogswell College, Ritz-Carlton), Mark Hopkins Hotel up hill on left. Financial Center Building (1927), later Omni Hotel, with lower stories modernized with stone sheathing, at far right.

1958 Financial District

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View from Telegraph Hill

View southwest to Nob Hill and Russian Hill over North Beach. In left distance, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect 1928) Lyon Van & Storage Co. with large 'Lyon' sign on roof on Stockton, near Green. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church in distance left of center. Washington Square at lower right.

1958 Telegraph Hill

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Downtown San Francisco

Elevated view north to Clift Hotel, California Hotel, Don Hotel, KNBC studio, Winton Hotel, Glide Memorial Methodist Church

1953 Tenderloin

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View S from Cliff House

View of Ocean Beach and Playland from Cliff House. Windmills

1956 Sutro Heights

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McAllister near Larkin

Parade passing Public Library, Scottish Marching Band, Army armored fighting vehicle

1952 Civic Center

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California near Grant

View East between Stockton and Grant. California St Cable Car. Cathay House, Yamato Sukiyaki, International Building, Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on west side at center.

1966 Chinatown

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Great Highway

View east across Great Highway toward the Gjoa. Roald Amundsen's Gjoa was the first ship through the northwest passage in 1906. Donated to San Francisco, she was displayed at the west end of Golden Gate Park from 1909 to 1972, when she was returned to Norway.

1953 Golden Gate Park