Pennsylvania near 25th
View northwest to Potrero Hill gas holder. Victorian house on right before repainting.
Potrero HillGas Tank
Contains 103 photos
Islais Creek
View west from 3rd Street Bridge. Ship docked at Cargill Copra Plant, Bernal Heights in background left, Twin Peaks in background right
Central Waterfront
20th & Illinois
View northeast to Market Street Railway (MSRy) overhead wire repair from Tower Truck #153, PG&E gas storage tanks (gasometers) in background.
Dogpatch
View south from Fairmont
Elevated view south down Powell Street to Sir Francis Drake Hotel in foreground, New Hall of Justice, Potrero Hill in distance.
Nob Hill
The Cannery
View north from courtyard to Alcatraz.
Fishermans Wharf
View from Portola Drive
View northeast over Noe Valley to downtown. Clipper St. with horse visible at right. St. Philip the Apostle Church to left of center, Castro St. Hill at left. S.F. General Hospital, gas storage tank on Pennsylvania St. (since removed) and Potrero Hill in distance right.
Upper Market
Clipper Street
View east over Noe Valley to Potrero Hill. St. Philip The Apostle Church, Castro Hill at center left. Horse in foreground center. S.F. General Hospital, gas storage tank on Pennsylvania St. (since removed) and Potrero Hill in distance right.
Upper Market
View East From Twin Peaks
Looking over Noe Valley, Dolores Heights to Potrero Hill and bay beyond.
Clarendon Heights
Dogpatch
View southeast from Potrero Hill, about 20th and Iowa, toward Dogpatch. Irish Hill rising in the left background. Gas tank, Canco, Irving Scott School, Spreckels Sugar refinery
Central Waterfront
View North over Portola
View north from near Cambridge and Shelley Drive. Bernal Heights and Potrero Hill in the background. Greenhouses from some of the many flower nurseries that occupied this area in the foreground. The large building at center, on University across from the reservoir, was built in 1875 as University Mound College, a Presbyterian boys' boarding school. In 1879, the building was sold to the Lick Old Ladies Home, funded by one of the charitable bequests in James Lick's will. In 1896, their name was changed to University Mound Old Ladies' Home. The building was demolished in 1931 and replaced with a larger modern structure, extant in 2018. Most of the land seen in this view was later developed for single family homes.
University Mound
View from Twin Peaks
View southeast toward Bernal Heights and Bayview. James Lick Middle School below and right of center, St. Philip the Apostle Church below and left of center. Alvarado School at lower left. Gas storage tanks (gasometers) on Army (later Cesar Chavez) and Pennsylvania streets at center left, later removed.
Upper Market
US101 construction
View north toward Potrero Hill. This segment of US101 (between Army/ Cesar Chavez Blvd. and Augusta Street, just south of Alemany Blvd.) was built between April 1949 & May 1951. Judging by the progress of the construction, the photo looks to have been taken sometime in 1950. (TA)
Potrero Hill
View from Bayview Hill
view Northeast from Bayview Hill to Hunters Point, showing Bayview district, Potrero Hill in the distance
Hunters Point
Noe Valley View
View from undeveloped hill at the present site of Cesar Chavez west of Noe. Panorama looking east toward Potrero Hill. Bernal Heights in distance right. SF & San Jose (Southern Pacific) Trestle at Dolores and 27th at center right.
Noe Valley
View from Gold Mine Hill
View east on clear day from Gold Mine Hill to bay, East Bay Hills, Mt. Diablo. Bernal Heights in background at right, Potrero Hill and S.F. General Hospital at left. Noe Valley in foreground. St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church and school to right of center. At lower right Kate Kennedy School (Mission Education Center). Gas holders on Pennsylvania and Cesar Chavez (then Army) in distance center.
Diamond Heights