Cliff House
3rd Cliff House remodel. Addtion on south facade being constructed.
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3rd Cliff House
3rd Cliff House being remodeled. Scaffolding in place.
Sutro Heights
Cliff House
3rd Cliff House remodel. Redwood 'moderne' exterior and third floor being added.
Sutro Heights
California & Leidesdorff
[Bank of California in construction] Elevated view northwest across California. Bank of California under construction. Wells Fargo Building at left.
Financial District
Geary at Powell
View southeast across intersection with Union Square off camera at left, Western Air Lines office at right, several buildings with scaffolding (Dohrmann's and I. Magnin's, which opened in 1948). Mutual Savings Bank Building and Palace Hotel in the distance on Market Street. Whittell Building at left. Birdcage traffic signal. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) C-line Streetcar #20, outbound. Old Crow Bourbon billboard.
Downtown / Union Square
Bayshore Freeway Construction
View north from Peralta Avenue above Cesar Chavez and San Bruno Avenue toward Potrero Hill.
Potrero Hill
Mission near 5th
View east on Mission between 4th and 5th Street. Track Removal operation (Mission street lines converted from streetcars in 1949). Webber's Stationers 871 Mission; Hotel Del Mar at left, Mohr Building (built 1924) at right. All buildings in the is view demolished, except for the Pacific Telephone Building in the background.
South of Market
Monterey & Circular
View east on Monterey Blvd (then Sunnyside) toward San Jose Avenue. Most houses in this view still stand. (2019)
Sunnyside
Dolores & San Jose Ave.
View North on Dolores from the intersection with San Jose Avenue. Fairmount School at left, Spires of St. Paul's Church at center.
Fairmount
View from Twin Peaks
View north from Twin Peaks, Market Street at center, new US Mint (construction began August, 1935, opened 1937) and Bay Bridge under construction. Castro Theatre at bottom. [San Francisco and Bay Bridge from Twin Peaks Piggott Photo #1153, Reverse: 'Dear folks, arrived here this noon. Have a swell cabin in Daly City, a suburb. Cabins seem cleaner and more private than hotels. Had car cleaned and greased and oil changed and when he opened the hood to grease it a little mouse jumped out.]
Clarendon Heights
Miramar & Wildwood
People standing street watching construction underway at 598 Miramar, The Chronicle House, in Westwood Park. Sign reads 'Buy a Nelson Bros. Well Built Bungalow.' Built over 11 weeks in early 1922. 598 Miramar was the grand prize in the SF Chronicle newspaper's 'Prize Campaign', a subscription drive in which 'nominees' competed for 'votes' awarded by new newspaper subscriptions. The winner was Russell Wilson of Palo Alto.
Westwood Park
Castro & Market
View north on Castro across Market during Muni Metro subway construction. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 8-line Trolley Bus #734
Castro
Mission Bay
View northeast from Mariposa crossing toward Southern Pacific train yard. Bay Bridge under construction in background. Southern Pacific Steam Engine #1212, Mission Bay. Railroad switching tower on left, 16th Street roadway viaduct in distance. Area is now directly below Interstate 280.
Mission Bay
Embarcadero near Clay
View south on Embarcadero toward Ferry Loop from above vehicle underpass. Pedestrian over-crossing, Bay bridge under construction, Ferry Building at left. Garbage truck in underpass.
Financial District
Bay Bridge
View from Telegraph Hill of S.F. Oakland Bay Bridge at night during construction. Time exposure. Piers on Embarcadero in foreground, Ferry Building at right
Telegraph Hill