Cosmopolitan Hotel Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest to salvage workers. Ruins of Palace Hotel in distance left. [Ruins of Cosmopolitan Bldg. 1906. SW Corner Bush & Sansome Streets.] [Crocker Estate Album]
Financial DistrictDemolished
Contains 7898 photos
3rd & Market
Elevated view north up Kearny from Market to crowded street scene. Mutual Savings Bank Building with Bank of America Branch, W.L. Growall Tailors, B.T. Brilliant Credit Jeweler, N.T. Turner Jeweler; Flannery Building with Dr. Ford Dentist and electric 'Piles Cured' sign, Grant Tailors, Ltd., Dinty's Kitchen and The Stag Bar. On Kearny, Johann Schmidt Building, Sherman, Clay & Co., Pauson's, Hotel Sutter, W.T. Carroll hats, Maskey's Candies in Maskey Building, Harvard Billiards & Snooker. Chronicle Building with Waldorf Buffet, W.T. Willett Chiropractor, Loew Brothers Tailors Telegraph Hill in distance. Birdcage traffic signals. Examiner Building on right.
South of Market
Seals Stadium
Baseball players testing Plexiglas guard. Seals Stadium.
Mission Dolores
Market & 10th
Elevated view southeast across intersection to San Francisco Merchandise Mart building, later renamed Market Square and home of Twitter in 2010s. Fox Theater at far left. Hotel Whitcomb in distance with radio tower atop. Banners strung across street and signs on street poles say "Welcome New Western Mart" (its original full name was Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart). The building opened on August 2, 1937. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 6-Line #172 and 6-Line #150? on Market Street.
South of Market
Ocean Beach
View north from top of equestrian ramp to life saving boat ramp and drill mast in center. Cliff House, Sutro Heights, Lurline Pier and Playland in background. [Ocean beach dpwbookBROWNBOOK dpwA2478]
Golden Gate Park
Market near 19th
Market Street Extension, View north showing extensive excavation in the street widening process. The intersection of 18th and Market in the background right. The photo taken just north of wnp36.04518. [Market extension Section B][dpwbookBROWNBOOK dpw10575]
Eureka Valley
Market near 19th
Market Street Extension, View north showing extensive excavation in the street widening process. The intersection of 18th and Market in the background right. At left are the stairs of 2 homes on the north side of Market, 3172 and 3166 Market. Believe these were renumbered from 60 and 58 Falcon in the earlier extension. The site was further widened in the late 1950s and these homes were demolished or moved. [Market extension Section B][dpwbookBROWNBOOK dpw10576]
Eureka Valley
Market near 18th
Market Street Extension, 2 homes on the north side of Market 3172 and 3166 Market showing extensive excavation in the street widening process. Believe these were renumbered from 60 and 58 Falcon in the earlier extension process. The site was further widened in the late 1950s and these homes were demolished or moved. The site is directly opposite the intersection of 18th and Market, now park of Corbett Slope Community Park. [Market ext. dpwbookBROWNBOOK dpw10602]
Eureka Valley
Fleishhacker Pool
View looking north over Fleishhacker Pool. Pool house at left, diving tower in distance. [Fleishhacker pool/playground dpwbookBROWNBOOK dpwA133]
Lakeshore
Fleishhacker Pool
View northwest across the pools toward the bathhouse. The site is now the SF Zoo parking lot. [Fleishhacker pool/playground][dpwbookBROWNBOOK dpwA134]
Lakeshore
Green at Calhoun
View north at the end of Green where it would intersect with Calhoun. Garage of 272 Green at left[Calhoun St looking north dpwbookBROWNBOOK dpwA152]
Telegraph Hill
Market near Duboce
View east on Market toward Duboce. [Market Street Rec. Traffic Islands at intersection of Duboce Ave. View east] [DPW D-5000]
Mission Dolores
Sutro Heights
Women posing in front of main gate beside reclining lion statues. High fences on either side. View from Cliff Avenue (now Point Lobos Avenue).
Sutro Heights
Bancroft Library
[Hubert Howe Bancroft's Historical Library of Pacific Coast Books, Maps and Manuscripts, 1538 Valencia Street, San Francisco, Cal. To Subscribers to Bancroft's Works, with compliments of the Publishers.] View west across Valencia Street to Bancroft Library, brick building with shutters, fenced, on present site of St. Luke's Hospital (CPMC Mission Bernal Campus). Twin Peaks in background. The library moved to Berkeley in 1905, but the building remained until 1954. A plaque, California Historical Landmark 791, marks the spot.
Bernal Heights
Midwinter Fair
Colorado Gold Mine Exhibit at 1894 Midwinter Fair in Golden Gate Park. Original image at wnp70.0210.
Golden Gate Park