17th near Valencia
View S Men working on sewer system in road. F.B. Avery sign in distance
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17th & Albion
Built by the Home Telephone Company in 1908 and purchased by their competitor Pacific Telephone in 1912. Ionic columns in entryway. Ernest Coxhead, Architect. 1928, based on license plate. Building still stands as Duggan's Mortuary.
Mission Dolores
Oakland Mole
San Francisco Bay, train tracks, ferry slip and ferry boat
SF Bay
Bush near Kearny
View south across Bush, Pacific Telephone Building main office 445 Bush Street. Bush Street Cafe and future site of Le Central at right. Call / Spreckels Building visible in the background. [SF Main Office Exterior] (Pacific Telephone Inventory)
Chinatown
Bush near Grant
Main telephone switchboard, Bush between Kearny and Grant. Group of women telephone operators sitting on barrels working the first multiple switchboard after the earthquake and fire.
Chinatown
Bush near Kearny
View northwest across Bush to S.F. Co-Operative Flower Market at center, City Flower Market 424 Bush, Firehouse Engine No. 2, Chemical No. 3, 460 Bush at left. Proposed site of Pacific Telephone Co. office. St. Anne St. at center later removed for building. [Site of proposed new main office, Bush street, San Francisco, California - 9-17-23]
Chinatown
Bush & Claude Lane
Elevated view northwest to 430-444 Bush Street, the new Pacific Telephone Company main office. City Flower Market, 424 Bush. Firehouse, Station 2 (460 Bush, Newton Tharp architect, built 1909) to left of telephone company building.
Downtown / Union Square
Otis & Gough
View northeast across Otis toward Pacific Telephone Co. building, 86 Otis at Gough brick facade on one side, rebuilt after it was damaged in the 1906 Earthquake. Building still stands in 2021.
South of Market
Pine near Kearny
Elevated view southeast over new Pacific Telephone Co. main office construction site at 430-444 Bush Street to buildings on south side of Bush Street. St. George Garage (Wm. Saunders, prop.) with Goodrich Tires advertisement on east side. The no longer existing St. Anne Street runs through the site and was removed for this project. Hobart Building in distance left. Buildings on the south side of Bush Street still stand 2021. 8 story building at left is the Charleston Building (Albert Pissis architect, 1908), white building to its right is the San Francisco Press Club Building (Henry Hedger architect, 1908), at far right Pacific States Telephone Building (A.A. Cantin architect, 1905). [San Francisco, California New Main Office Progress - 06-28-24]
Chinatown
Bush near Kearny
View northwest to man in suit posed holding jackhammer at new Pacific Telephone Co. main business office construction site, 430-444 Bush. Quincy Apartments in background. [#444 Bush St Before Construction Started Mr. Delury Breaks Ground]
Chinatown
Hyde near Sutter
827 Hyde between Sutter and Bush, Pacific Telephone Exchange Building, the only known pre-fire building in this district. In 1919 it was the location of the Franklin exchange; pre-fire it was the East Exchange. Pacific Telephone Co. offices and Granada Hotel at corner [San Francisco, Calif. Franklin office exterior 8-23-21]
Lower Nob Hill
Hyde near Sutter
1906 Earthquake and Fire, 827 Hyde between Sutter and Bush, Pacific Telephone Exchange Building, the only known pre-fire building in this district. In 1919 it was the location of the Franklin exchange; pre-fire it was the East Exchange. fire-gutted Pacific Telephone Co. building
Lower Nob Hill
5th near Geary
450 5th Ave, Pacific Telephone Co. Richmond building, man at entryway, construction worker in window. Building opened Nov. 28, 1908. Eventually, Pacific and Bayview Office. [S.F.-Richmond office-progress-9-26-08]
Richmond Inner
5th near Geary
450 5th Ave, Pacific Telephone Co. building, under construction. Building opened Nov. 28, 1908. Cottage at left demolished. [S.F. Richmond Office - Progress]
Richmond Inner
2139 Mission
Mission & Sycamore. 2139 Mission, view S towards Bernal Heights from Roof of Pacific Telephone building [Roof of Mission Office 928]
Mission