Pt Lobos near Great Highway
Woman posing on sidewalk south of Cliff House. Ocean Beach and Playland in background, sign for Musee Mecanique.
Sutro HeightsDemolished
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Financial District Aerial
View southeasterly over Financial District, South of Market, Bay Bridge, Transbay Terminal, Embarcadero Freeway. Russ Building, Standard Oil and Shell Buildings, Equitable Life Insurance Building / 100 Montgomery Street (1955) at center, Bethlehem Steel Corp. Building / 100 California (1960, Welton D. Becket architect) at far left. Just beyond is Southern Pacific Building with S-P sign atop, removed September, 1961.
Financial District
Telegraph Hill Aerial
Aerial View of Coit Tower and Pioneer Park, showing Embacadero, Piers and Embarcadero Freeway
Telegraph Hill
Sky Tram & Sutro Baths
View north from Cliff House terrace. Sutro Baths at right.
Sutro Heights
Sky Tram & Sutro Baths
View north from Cliff House terrace towards Point Lobos. Sky Tram at lower center, Sutro Baths at right. Both saltwater waterfalls in operation.
Sutro Heights
Union Square
View from Geary Street, the Dewey Monument at center, demolished Hotel Plaze is seen at the corner of Stockton and Post.
Downtown / Union Square
Columbus & Pacific
International Settlement, view east down Pacific from across Columbus. McHales, United States Immigration Station and Appraisers Stores of 1939–44 (now commonly called the Appraisers Building) at right.
North Beach
Kearny & Vermehr Place
View east across Kearny to 122-130 Kearny, White Lunch Co. with delivery trucks and drivers in front. "Never Closed", "Ascend The Marble Stairway to the White Lunch Cafenet"; D.C. Heger Art Neckwear 116-118 Kearny; W.J. Hesthal Golden Gate Loan Office, 110 Kearny.
Downtown / Union Square
Ben Turpin
King Street between 3rd and 4th
Mission Bay
Van Ness near Chestnut.
Row of Studebaker Cars, before Galileo High School. Fontana Warehouse in background. Large structure at 1290 Lombard still exists, although much modified, in 2021
Marina
Lands End Station
Cliff Line waiting room under construction United Railroads [Reconstruction Ferries & Cliff Line] Served as passenger waiting room, curio shop and food concession until demolished in 1940. The railroad right-of-way is now part of a walking path. (The Cliff Line began as the Ferries & Cliff House steam railroad in 1888. It was converted to streetcar operations in 1905.)
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
29th & Mission
Market Street Railway (MSry) Car House, west side of Mission between 29th Street and Virginia [dpw7212]
Bernal Heights
Fire on Treasure Island
California Building burned, San Francisco Building to right, looking east from Lake of the Nations
SF Bay
Market near 1st
Elevated view east from center of Market toward 1st Street to cars parked in the middle of the street during Municipal Railway (Muni) Strike. Parking regulations were suspended to allow cars to park on unused streetcar tracks. The strike lasted from Sunday February 17 through Saturday February 23, 1952. From left Donahue Mechanics Monument, Union Carbide in Postal Telegraph Building, Tilden Sales Building , Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building, Ferry Building, PG&E Building,
Financial District
San Jose & Ocean
American LaFrance pumper truck in front of Firehouse Engine 38 at 2098 San Jose Avenue. Balboa Park and Mt. Davidson in background.
Mission Terrace