4th near Mission
View north on 4th to Market Street and Roos Bros. store, St. Francis Hotel in center distance. Hotel Argonaut, Argonaut Tailors, Pacific Building.
South of MarketHotel
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Market & 10th
View northwest across Market to gore lot where Fell Street intersects. Grand Central Hotel and bar. Pinzon Havana Cigar store on corner. Deward & Armbrust harness makers, 1422 Market, Howard L. Whitehead storage pianos, 1426 Market at far left. Building extant, although modified, in 2018, as New Central Hotel and Hostel at 1412 Market Street.
South of Market
Powell & Broadway
View to southeast corner and Hotel du Midi with a row of children posing in front. International Cafe bar on ground floor. European Shoe Repair Store. Building extant but heavily modified in 2018.
Russian Hill
Taylor & Jackson
View to northwest corner apartment building at 1100 Jackson Street. Boys posing on corner.
Nob Hill
Mason & Eddy
View north to Hotel Larne at corner of Ellis in distance. 115 Mason on left is extant, but modified, in 2018, and three-story brick building with curved parapet in middle distance is extant in 2018. Everything else has been demolished. Early automobile, cobblestone street, Cafe Bauer.
Downtown / Union Square
9th & Mission
View north across Mission St. to three story brick building, 80-98 9th Street, built in 1908 on northwest corner with bar and newsstand on ground floor. Street work and streetcar tracks. Still stands in 2021. Signs for Old Kirk Whisky, Hibernia Steam Beer and Jackson Steam Beer.
South of Market
Broadway & Montgomery
View to northwest corner and Hotel Golden Eagle building. Barber and bar on ground floor. Roma Hotel next door. Building extant, with some facade modifications, in 2018, with Golden Eagle Hotel address at 402 Broadway.
North Beach
Fillmore near McAllister
Fillmore St between McAllister and Golden Gate Ave. View northwest to The Fillmore rooming house, Fillmore Grill, The Occidental apartment building. All buildings demolished except the apartments on far right at northwest corner of Golden Gate Avenue, extant in 2018.
Western Addition
Powell & Eddy
View north past Powell Street cable car turntable to St. Francis Hotel in distance. Techau Tavern, Hotel Turpin, Hotel Lenox and California Cafe near Ellis Street. (Sign painting on side of building extant in 2018.)
Downtown / Union Square
3rd & Mission
View north on 3rd to Call and Mutual Savings Bank buildings on Market Street. New Hearst Examiner building (opened September, 1911) under construction on right. Aronson Building, Pleasantry Cafe, Winchester Hotel, Hotel Navarre, and 16-line (?) streetcar. Cook Medical Co. on right.
South of Market
O'Farrell near Powell
View northwest across O'Farrell. Building with coffee sign at far right built 1906 (Salfield & Kohlberg, architects), extant in 2022 with 1933 Art Deco remodeled facade. John R. Sievers florist on ground floor of Manx Hotel on northwest corner (Villa Florence Hotel in 2022). Hotel Gloster (later Hotel Virginia and San Francisco Downtown Hostel in 2022), Rathjen Bros. Groceries and Liquors in distance on left. At right, Keiner's Liquors, 198 O'Farrell, with swing out electric sign. Buildings in view all still stand in 2022
Downtown / Union Square
California & Polk
View to northwest corner apartment building, not extant in 2018. James E. Harrison, painter, and Charles Coburn, carpenter and builder along California. [The Bradbury 1600 California St.]
Polk Gulch
California & Polk
View to northeast corner apartment building, not extant in 2018. I. E. Conner, milliner, on ground floor. Maple Hall and Sonoma Market, extant in 2018 as Walgreens drug store on left. [The Stanford Apartments, 1590 California St.]
Polk Gulch
Eddy & Mason
View to northeast corner, Poodle Dog Restaurant and Hotel Building. Spider Kelly bar on left. Ramona Hotel building extant in 2018 as Olympic Hotel. [Poodle Dog 151 [sic] Mason St.]
Downtown / Union Square
Bush & Kearny
View to southeast corner. Gordon the Tailor, Hotel Stanford with sign in shape of pennant. [Stanford Hotel 250 Kearny]
Chinatown