Powell near Sutter
View south on Powell toward Sutter, Muni cable car #518. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Fitzhugh Building, Union Square at left.
Downtown / Union SquareHotel
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McAllister & Polk
View east on McAllister from Polk. Municipal Railway (Muni) streetcar 5-line #104 outbound. State Building at left. Main Library at right. Empire Hotel and Hotel Astor in the distance.
Civic Center
Embarcadero near Market
View south from in front of Ferry Building showing streetcars & carriages
Financial District
California & Grant
View southeast across California from Grant. St. Mary's Square at center, Hotel Lafayette and Helvetia Hotel at left. Commercial Union Assurance Building at 315 Montgomery in left background, Standard Oil Building at 225 Bush at center back, Alexander Building (155 Montgomery, completed 1921), Crown Hotel, MacDonough Building and Hobart Building at right. Sass & Son Contractors, 134 St. Anne Street (later removed).
Chinatown
Post & Stockton
View southwest from the corner of Post and Stockton toward Union Square and St. Francis Hotel. Hotel Plaza at right. Dewey Monument at left. [1035 San Francisco St. Francis Hotel van Post str. Gezien 7.3.'23]
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Spear
View east from the sidewalk on Market toward Spear. Ferry Building in background. Hotel Terminal, Market Street Railway 6-Line and 4-Line streetcars. Transit signal tower at center. [1034 San Francisco Marketstr. Ferry Bdg op achtergr. 7.3.'23]
Financial District
Market near 6th
Elevated View east on Market from 6th Street. Special Automobile Parade organized by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company with an advertised 25,000 automobiles on parade from the Ferry Building to the Exposition grounds which we under construction) Pantages and Empress (later St. Francis), and Empire Theatres at right. Marquee of Maio Biograph (later Crest) Theatre at far left. Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Lesser Bros. Washington Market, Maryland Dairy Lunch, Eiler's Music House at right. [St Francis as Empress 7/15/1914 from 6th & Market]
Tenderloin
Montgomery & Market
View southwest on Market from across Montgomery. Market Street is decorated for the Golden Gate Bridge Opening Fiesta, May 27-June 2, 1937 with flags, banners and lampposts decorated as redwood trees. Crowds of people on the sidewalk in front of the Crocker Building. Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, Hearst/Examiner Building, Spreckels/Call Building, and Humboldt Bank Building visible across the street.
Downtown / Union Square
El Verano, Sonoma
Large group on a horse drawn hay covered wagon in front of the Bellevue Hotel in El Verano, Sonoma. [Bellevue Hotel]
Powell near Geary
Portola Festival Parade, the commemoration of Portola 'discovering' SF Bay in 1769, and the 400th anniversary of Balboa 'discovering' the Pacific Ocean in 1513, so there is a lot of mixed imagery. The marching women were the 'Pages' of Queen Conchita, Oct. 22, 1913. (JF) Young women march four abreast in white uniforms past the St. Francis Hotel and a large group of sailors.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & California
Cable Car Centennial, Powell & California. View west on California St.
Nob Hill
Geary & Kearny
View east to Sheraton Palace on Market and Annie, from Geary & Kearny. Florsheim shoes.
Downtown / Union Square
Eddy & Larkin
View east on Eddy toward Larkin. George Dobbs Restaurant (now the site of the Phoenix Hotel) Promotional Cable Car #21 in parking lot (the first motorized cable car, built 1952) Hotel Sentinel across the street. [Larkin and Eddy George Dobbs Drive In restaurant. He was the father of Harold Dobbs, co-founder of Mel's Drive-In and a San Francisco Supervisor.
Tenderloin
O'Farrell near Stockton
Elevated view north across street to Alcazar Theatre, 260 O'Farrell between Powell and Stockton. Signs advertise Marjorie Rambeau in the play 'Antonia' (play ran from September 23 to October 13, 1928) Hotel Spaulding next door, extant 2020 as Bartlett Hotel with parapet removed. [Alcazar Theatre SF #3 01]
Downtown / Union Square
Sacramento & Polk
View West on Sacramento toward Polk. Sacramento-Clay line cable cars #15 and #18 at Polk St. Palo Alto Hotel, Safeway market, rear of Old First Presbyterian Church at left. Foster's at right. [CC015-55-02 CC018-55-01 Sacramento & Polk 5 July 1941]
Polk Gulch