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Elevated view north from Golden Gateway high-rise toward Telegraph Hill, Angel Island in background. Intersection of Front and Pacific in foreground, Columbo Arch in the future Sydney Walton Square. Buildings on the right facing Broadway were demolished for the Embarcadero Square development. Embarcadero Freeway Broadway ramps, National Ice and Cold Storage Co
Northern Waterfront
View north from the Presidio, Golden Gate Bridge under construction. Cables strung but no roadway.[Golden Gate Bridge Piggott 1192?]
Presidio
Aerial view southeast from above Fort Mason.Aquatic Park at lower left. Galileo High School football field in lower center, Russian Hill at center, Downtown in background. Bay Bridge at far left background. Fontana Apartments at North Point under construction across from Galileo playing field. [1502-C]
View west toward entrance to Sunset Tunnel under construction at Duboce Park.
Duboce Triangle
Construction project at the Continental Lodge at Van Ness and Filbert discovered an old well dated 1859. Motel manager Bernard Burke points to the 1859 plaque while workers excavate the well. the well was on the former property of E. Willard Burr, who shipped a knocked-down house around the Horn and assembled it in 1852 on a Laguna Survey lot cut through by today's Filbert Street and Van Ness Avenue, which did not officially exist west of Larkin St. at the time. Burr's house was the last structure blown up by the Army as a firebreak in 1906. The present successor to the Continental Lodge is the da Vinci Villa hotel. (BB)
Russian Hill
Track work on Southern Pacific railroad old mainline crossing of Valencia Street cable car line. Market Street Cable Railway car #14. United Railroads [U00015][Overhead View of Crossing Construction for Cable Car Tracks and Heavy Rail Tracks at Valencia and 25th Streets]
Mission
View south from the top of Coit Tower towards downtown, Kearny Street at right, skyscraper under construction.
Telegraph Hill
View west towards the Ferry Building from a boat on SF Bay. Southern Pacific Building with large S-P sign, Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building, Embarcadero Freeway under construction at right, and Zellerbach Plaza in background. Pacific Telephone Building at left.
Elevated view east from Crown Room in Fairmont Hotel tower. Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island in background. Alcoa Building under construction at right.
Nob Hill
Aerial view north from above India Basin showing Islais Creek Channel, Central Waterfront, Potrero Hill, and Angel Island in the distance. Recently filled land for Piers 94 & 96, scrap yards on current day site of India Basin Industrial Park, Western Pacific railyard and rail ferry, Potrero Hill gas tank. Interstate 280 had not yet been build north of Mariposa.
Central Waterfront
Aerial view north from above India Basin showing Islais Creek Channel, Central Waterfront, Potrero Hill, and Angel Island in the distance.
Central Waterfront
View south from the stairs on Washington Street near Battery. Alcoa Building at left, One Embarcadero under construction.
Financial District
View from Washington between Kearny and Montgomery, Portsmouth Square Hilton under construction, buildings at left later demolished.
Chinatown
Elevated view looking east, probably from the Shell Building showing Yerba Buena Island and Bay Bridge construction. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific, Matson and PG&E Buildings at center. Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building.
Financial District
View southeast from SF Bay towards Yerba Buena Island and Bay Bridge under construction. SF piers at right.