Contains 945 photos
View north up Powell. Powell, Eddy and Market cable car turntable. Cable car #515. View Mohr's Cafeteria and Powell Theatre on left. Woolworth's (Flood Building) on right. Fairmont Tower under construction in the distance
Downtown / Union Square
View north up Powell at Powell, Eddy and Market cable car turntable. Cable car #511. Powell Theatre on left, Woolworth's (in Flood Building) on right.
Downtown / Union Square
View south on Powell from Post. Cable car #506 in front of St. Francis Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across the intersection of Powell and Geary. Cable car #505. Union Square and Hotel Plaza in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Market across Van Ness. Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line PCC streetcar #1144 McKesson (Aetna Life & Casualty, Montgomery & Market) Building under construction in the distance on right. McKesson (Aetna Life & Casualty, Montgomery & Market) Building under construction in the distance.
South of Market
View southwest from Mark Hopkins Hotel at Mason and California. Buena Vista Park and Mount Sutro at left. Lone Mountain at right.
Nob Hill
View south from Mark Hopkins Hotel, toward Potrero Hill, Hall of Justice, US101 & I80 freeways. Sir Francis Drake and St. Francis Hotel (before construction of 32 story tower that began in early 1969) at left, Hilton Union Square Hotel at far right opened in 1964. Architect - William B. Tabler, Sr. It has since been extensively remodeled with a different facade. Beyond Hilton is David Hewes building with modern cladding.
Nob Hill
Elevated vew east on California from Mark Hopkins Hotel. Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island, Fairmont Hotel, University Club at left.
Nob Hill
Elevated View northwest from the old Hilton Hotel toward the intersection of O'Farrell and Taylor, Californian Hotel, Clift Hotel, Hotel Don, TV Channel 44 building
Tenderloin
Elevated View looking west from the Hilton Hotel toward the intersection of Ellis and Taylor. Glide Memorial Church at center, parking lot site of Boedekker Park at left
Tenderloin
View north on Powell toward Sutter from Powell Street Cable Car. Sir Frances Drake Hotel (Starlite Roof ), Parsons Optical, San Francisco State College at right. Grace Ball Secretarial College, Sears Fine Foods, Fairmont Hotel Tower at left.
Downtown / Union Square
View west on California toward Powell, California St. Cable Car #54 and Fairmont Hotel at right
Nob Hill
Telephoto view at night looking west towards Mark Hopkins Hotel, Fairmont Hotel, and then-new Fairmont Tower and Crown Room [The Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Tower K 0092]
Nob Hill
View north on Bryant from 3rd St. Bay Bridge approach in background. Pedersen's Cafe on corner. Cleveland Hotel in background. MSRY (Market Street Railway) 16-line Streetcar #961 [3rd & Bryant 1940]
South of Market
View northeast from Gough and Geary to Jack Tar Hotel and Nob Hill beyond. St. Mark's Lutheran Church (at right, Henry Geilfuss, architect, 1895). At left, First Unitarian Universalist Church (1889). Foundations of demolished buildings at southwest corner in foreground. Later site of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral complex. Rear of prior St. Mary's Cathedral at center.
Cathedral Hill