Geary & Leavenworth
Above Geary; Tenderloin; Maurice Hotel at 761 Post
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Contains 945 photos
Market & Fulton
Market St between 7th and 8th Streets, looking southwest across Market. Muni M & L cars outbound #150; crowd boarding; kid on cow catcher. Strand Theatre, Hotel National, Benatar's Department Store, Crystal Palace Market, a huge food mall, is visible behind cars, demolished 1959; current site of Trinity Place: (See sf.curbed.com article for good history of Crystal Palace.) Hotel Whitcomb and Merchandise Mart in distance. Market Street decorated for Shrine Convention. (parade was July 21, 1946)
Civic Center
Market from 6th
Elevated view from the David Hewes Building 995 Market at 6th Street (at the time known as the Western States Life Building) Paramount Theatre, City Hall, Empire Hotel, Twin Peaks in the distance.[Market W from 6th dpwbook48 dpwA2508]
South of Market
Bush near Grant
View west on Bush from Grant, Notre Dame des Victoires and Victoria Hotel on the right
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
View northwest across square, with men sitting on benches and grass, to St. Francis hotel, Argonaut Club Building (Built 1909, with additions in 1920, Sylvain Schnaittacher, architect) and Fitzhugh Building.
Downtown / Union Square
Sacramento near Jones
Nob Hill look east, showing Fairmont, Mark Hopkins and Huntington hotels. Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club) at center. Site of Grace Cathedral at right.
Nob Hill
Nob Hill
Mark Hopkins Hotel and Stanford Court on Nob Hill, from south
Nob Hill
Taylor near Eddy
Residential apartments built in in 1910 at 225 Taylor Street between Ellis and Eddy. The Olympic Hotel on Eddy Street is in the background. The small structure next door has been demolished and the lot is now part of a large multiunit residence.
Tenderloin
Sutter near Leavenworth
940 Sutter Street, Hotel Empire was originally named Hotel Glen Royal when built in 1925. Used in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in a scene where Scottie watches from across the street as Madeline peeks out the window of Room 401. Now called the Hotel Vertigo. Within Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel Historic District on the National Register.
Lower Nob Hill
Embarcadero near Mission
136 - 142 Embarcadero, built 1907, housed the Emerson Drug Co., Sea Cliff Cafe, Naval Uniforms store, and prominent Bromo-Seltzer sign, flanked by two hotels. All three structures are extant, though altered. Embarcadero Cafe at left, 144 Embarcadero.
Financial District
Ellis near Jones
Hotel Coronado at 373 Ellis Street, and the El Coronado Restaurant, built 1910. Now a Community Awareness and Treatment Services (CATS) hotel. To the left is the Golden Gate Photo Engraving Co., and to the right is a restaurant.
Tenderloin
3rd Street near Bryant
South Park House, 530 3rd Street. Men, women, and children posing in front. [J. W. Baker, photog.]
South of Market
St. Francis Hotel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Workers posed in front of damaged St Francis Hotel on Powell St
Downtown / Union Square
Baldwin Hotel
Baldwin Hotel from south side of Market and 5th Street. Powell Street, lines of gigs with horses. [California View Co., Publishers, 1025 Market St., San Francisco.] Isaiah West Taber photo? See wnp37.03582
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Mason
View east towards St. Ann's Building, Baldwin Hotel, Chronicle Building, The Matinee Millinery, Jno. Steinbach Jeweler 1016 Market, (Ernest) Essman Dry Goods, 1022 Market. Painted pole for C. Curtin dry goods at right, 911-915 Market. Two story building erected on lot at far left by July, 1895. Same image as wnp27.6768 with slightly different cropping.
South of Market