Contains 103 photos
View north to Embarcadero and northern waterfront. Alcatraz, Angel Island and Mount Tamalpais in distance. Gas holding tank (gasometer) at foot of Powell Street. At far right, 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
Telegraph Hill
Diamond Heights Before Development, View East to Bernal and Potrero
Noe Valley
Diamond Heights Before Development, View east to Surveyors flags, Bernal Hill Holly Park and Mt St. Joseph in Background. Huge gas holder at Cesar Chavez (then Army) and Evans in background left.
Diamond Heights
Diamond Heights before development, View east toward Bernal Heights. Surveyor's stakes. Gas holder behind Potrero Hill at left and at Cesar Chavez (then Army) and Evans Sts.
Diamond Heights
View North toward SF Bay, SF Gas works and gasometer at center.
Pacific Heights
View northeast toward Potrero Hill. Ripley Street, before paving and before leveling of hill at top, at lower right. Houses at bottom left are on Alabama Street.
Bernal Heights
Looking northwest to Aquatic Park/Fishermen's Wharf [SF from Telegraph Hill, 1933]
Telegraph Hill
View south across Cesar Chavez (then Army Street) to MSRy 25-line #883 with zip stripe livery "Turk & Fillmore Only".
Bernal Heights
View southeast towards Telegraph Hill. Fishing boats, gas tank, Coit Tower in background. Bal Tabarin Foods at 237 Jefferson St. at right, Crab Fishermen's Protective Association building, background center.
southeast toward Fisherman's Wharf
View Northerly 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. Here, the roadbed has been graded & coated with oil (to keep the dust down?), but not yet paved, Summer/Fall 1949. This part of US101 was the first freeway section within the city limits of San Francisco. (TA)
Potrero Hill
View west to Potrero Hill gas holder. Victorian house on right before repainting.
Potrero Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake and fire, view northeast from Cow Hollow District, Russian Hill burning, refugees setting up tents, San Francisco Gas Works in distance center.
Marina
Aerial view looking southeast over Russian Hill, Chinatown and North Beach towards Downtown. Columbus Ave cuts across diagonally at left, Hyde St. on the right. To right of center, Humphrey's Castle (1852-1949), early mansion with crenellated roofline, at Hyde and Chestnut. Notably missing, Park Lane (1924) and Brocklebank (1927) Apartments on Nob Hill. Matson Lines Building in final phases of construction in distance left (Bliss & Faville architects, completed 1924). Bay, Mission Bay in distance.
Fishermans Wharf
PPIE Proposed Site. View west to Fair site from Larkin St. [dpwbook4 dpw596] Cow Hollow; looking west from Larkin near Chestnut on Russian Hill. San Francisco Gas Works. Ferry Bros. Hay & Grain, 2955 Van Ness near Francisco at center. Houses on bottom right on Culebra Terrace still stand 2022. John Sievers & Co. greenhouses at lower left. Presidio, Marin Headlands, Golden Gate in distance.
Russian Hill