Geary & Powell
Looking West on Geary St from Powell. St. Francis hotel at right.
Downtown / Union SquareHotel
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Folsom & 3rd St
View east on Folsom toward 3rd Street. (Nothing in this view remains) 36-line streetcar tracks. Hotels, rooming houses, Third & Folsom Garage, Cabin Cafe
South of Market
Folsom & 4th
Looking West on Folsom, Knust Hotel 306 4th Street, The Bridge Cafe 300 4th Street
South of Market
Market near 7th
Soldiers parading - American Legion Parade, View from center of Market St. northeast to McAllister, Jones, Market intersection, Hotel Shaw, Anglo California Bank, Paramount Theatre, Flood Building background right
South of Market
Market near 9th
American Legion Parade, looking east on Market from Larkin, Hotel Whitcomb, Orpheum Theatre background left, Crystal Palace Market background center, Hotel St. George, Garibaldi Cafe
Civic Center
Downtown view
Elevated view east from rooftop down Pine to Market, Bay Bridge in distance. Mohawk Gasoline. Retaining wall from former Hopkins and Stanford mansions on left.
Lower Nob Hill
Market near New Montgomery
View southeast across Market to Muni C-Line #606 with "Enlist Now - The New Regular Army" signage on side. In background, Palace Hotel (with Northern Pacific Yellowstone Park line office), Metropolis Bank Building with Bank of America branch, Balboa Building, Santa Fe building/West Coast Life Insurance, Fack's night club, Pig 'N Whistle cafe. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #206 renumbered #606 after the 1944 merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni unit #206.)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Geary
View southeast across Market to Muni C-Line streetcar #635 with wings livery. Palace Hotel in background. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #235 renumbered #635 after the 1944 merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni unit #235.)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Pine
View southeast across Market St. from Pine St. Municipal Railway (Muni) D-Line streetcar #210 in intersection. Ferry Building and Southern Pacific Building in background. Matson Lines and PG&E Buildings at right.
Financial District
View from Southern Pacific Bldg
Elevated view southeast, new annex at Steuart and Mission, over large parking lot toward Bay Bridge, Railway Express Agency pier, Harbor Hotel, Embarcadero, YMCA. Ferry Hotel, Audiffred Building (with Mail Box Grill and large replica mailbox sign and clock hanging above corner entrance, Rincon Annex Post Office, Texaco service station at Steuart and Mission intersection. At far left, state agriculture building, 58 Club.
Financial District
Waller & Stanyan
View northeast across Stanyan St. to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 7-line car #1666, Stadium Hotel, crowds leaving Kezar Stadium after East-West Shrine Football game.
Cole Valley
McAllister near Hyde
View east from center of McAllister to Hastings law school with students out front on left (building demolished 2022), 100 McAllister (former Empire Hotel), President Theater. Old Federal Office Building on right.
Civic Center
4th Street near Market
View south on 4th, Santa Fe Bus Depot, Keystone Hotel Jessie Street and 4th, Benatar's Cut Rate Drug Store, California (later State) Theatre on left, Pacific Building on right
South of Market
Embarcadero near Howard
YMCA. Coit Tower in background.
Financial District
Nikita Khrushchev visit
Soviet flag outside Mark Hopkins Hotel
Nob Hill