Contains 945 photos
View west on California from Sansome Street. From right, Bank of California, London & San Francisco Bank Building (completed 1874) at Leidesdorff corner, Mercantile Trust Co. Building (1903,Albert Pissis, Architect), Kohl Building, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Home Insurance Co. Building (completed 1951), Old St. Mary's Cathedral and Fairmont Hotel. Birdcage traffic signals.
Financial District
View south on Mason St. from near California. Portion of Mark Hopkins Hotel and wall along Mason St. at left.
Nob Hill
View northwest toward Nob Hill from Sir Francis Drake Hotel at Sutter and Powell (opened 1928). Left to right: Grace Cathedral, Hotel Huntington, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio transmission tower atop, Morsehead Apartmentsf (1001 California), Mark Hopkins Hotel, Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel).
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest across Union Square towards St. Francis Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northwest from City of Paris at Geary and Stockton toward Union Square. St. Francis Hotel at left, Fitzhugh Building and Sir Francis Drake Hotel at center, 450 Sutter building at far right. Temporary promotional pavilion for Golden Gate International Exposition in the square at left (it opened in September, 1937).
Downtown / Union Square
View north from current site of Main Library toward Federal Office Building at Fulton and Hyde under construction. Empire Hotel in background. People lounging on the grass.
Civic Center
View north on Highway 1 toward Montara Beach, Frank Torre's Beach Hotel at left.
Outside SF
View north on Highway 1 toward Montara Beach, Frank Torre's Beach Hotel at left.
Outside SF
California Street cable car passing the Fairmont Hotel. Part of the Mark Hopkins hotel at right.
Nob Hill
View east from Sacramento and Jones Streets on Nob Hill. Fairmont Hotel, Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion), Mark Hopkins Hotel, Morsehead Apartments 1001 California), Grace Cathedral buildings on right, Huntington Park beyond.
Nob Hill
View looking northeast from Hilton Union Square hotel. St. Francis Hotel at left center, Transamerica Pyramid, Bank of America Building, bay and Yerba Buena Island
Tenderloin
View looking east from Hilton Union Square hotel towards Bay Bridge.
Tenderloin
Elevated view looking west across Union Square to Dewey Monument and St. Francis Hotel. [St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco] Taken from building on NE corner of Stockton St and Maiden Lane.
Downtown / Union Square
Night view northeast from center of Market between Spear and Main toward illuminated Ferry Building and decorations on street lamps for the 1913 Portola Festival (Oct 22-25), Lincoln Hotel and Sunset Hotel at right. (The '1915' sign on the Ferry Building promoted the upcoming Panama-Pacific International Exposition and would remain in place until the close of the fair in 1915)
Financial District
View southwest, Geary Street at right. Bellevue Hotel, 505 Geary (southwest corner of Geary and Taylor) now known as The Marker. Built in 1907 as the Hotel Bellevue on the site of the pre-earthquake and fire Hotel Aiglon. Before that the El Monte Hotel, The Lyndhurst, and The Hollenbeck, and also the site of a small pre-earthquake and fire alley, Geary Place, that ran south from Geary Street half a block to a dead end, to four small attached houses on the west side of the alley.(PF)
Tenderloin