Market & Kearny
View East on Market Street, Lotta's Fountain at left, Haight Street cable car, Palace Hotel with Japanese Art (George Turner Marsh) and Grand Hotel at right
South of MarketHotel
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California near Powell
View east on California from Powell. Annex to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co (today's Ritz Carlton) under construction and completed in early 1953.
Nob Hill
Taylor & Ellis
Night view north on Taylor from Ellis, auto accident, with people, crowd ambulance. 7:45PM Glide Church at left. Hotel Del Rey at right (demolished)
Tenderloin
Geary & Stockton
Reconstruction work past Union Square and Dewey Monument to St. Francis Hotel with north wing construction in progress.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
View northwest from Geary and Stockton, St. Francis Hotel at left, Fitzhugh Building at center
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 10th
Fox Theatre, view northeast on Market toward Larkin, Empire Hotel in the background. Municipal Railways streetcar #1 passing the theatre ( during Muni's 50th Anniversary celebration, streetcar #1 was refurbished) [RS1200 Fox SF Fox-55 October 1962]
Civic Center
3rd & Natoma
View north on 3rd Street. Peerless Theatre at left showing 'Ridin the Wind', M.A. Gunst Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), built 1907, with large painted sign for Neustadter's Overalls and Work Shirts. Aronson Building, Call Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Hearst Examiner Building in distance. [Peerless Theatre 1925 Third Street View]
South of Market
Powell near California
View south from cable car on Powell between California and Pine. Sir Francis Drake Hotel in distance, Stanford Court apartments at extreme right. [California July 56 Boat Trip San Francisco Nob St. Hill]
Nob Hill
Powell near Market
View north on Powell between Market and Ellis, Woolworth's at right. [California July 56 Boat Trip San Francisco Looking up Powell St from Market St.]
Downtown / Union Square
Bush & Powell
View east on Bush from Powell, Sherry's Liquors (demolished) at right, Colonial Hotel at left. Russ Building in the distance (An African-American Family Slides, Roll 3)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & 7th
view northeast across Market at 7th, Hotel Shaw, Red Cap Barbecue, City News. City News building was demolished for the construction of Charles J. Brenham Place (7th Street North) (An African-American Family Slides, Roll 3)
South of Market
Union Square
Francis Lambertson sitting in Union Square with St. Francis Hotel in background [Francis - Age 16]
Downtown / Union Square
Palace Hotel
Interior of grand court of Palace Hotel. SF Landmark. Market near New Montgomery
South of Market
Geary near Powell
View west from center of Geary toward Powell, Excursion streetcar #1040 on B-line. The last streetcar of its type built, still in service in 2019. Hotel Stewart, St. Francis Hotel, Elkan Gunst Building (with Air France sign) in background. George S. May Co., Western Air Lines at left. Union Square at right. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Steiner
View west from center of Geary to scrap run, last run of this streetcar. Bekins Storage in distance. Buildings on left demolished, now site of Raymond Kimball Playground, Girl's High School (later Gateway) beyond. Buildings on right and portion of Hamilton Square demolished for Geary widening.
Western Addition