Fairmont Hotel
[The Birch Room Excellent food - located Arcade Floor][Ernest Drury, General Manager]
Nob HillHotel
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Fairmont Hotel
[Tonga Room, Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill][Zan1255] Band on floating stage in background.
Nob Hill
Fairmont Hotel
Interior view of Fairmont's Tonga Room in its original cruise-liner themed decor as the 'S.S. Tonga.' Original Fairmont Hotel swimming pool at center. [The Tonga Room - SF's most original room featuring Chinese and South Sea Island Foods, Cocktail, Dancing, and Entertainment Nightly]
Nob Hill
Fairmont Hotel
Interior of Tonga Room in its first incarnation as a cruise liner-themed lounge, 'S.S. Tonga.' Original Fairmont Plunge swimming pool was converted to floating bandstand. [The Tonga Room - SF's most original room featuring Chinese and South Sea Island Foods, Cocktail, Dancing, and Entertainment Nightly]
Nob Hill
Eddy near Gough
Imperial Hotel Apartments, 951 Eddy, south side of Eddy between Gough and Franklin. The building still stands in 2020. St. Paulus Church in the background.(St. Paulus burned in 1995.) [real photo postcard - azo]
Cathedral Hill
Market &10th
[This is where I am staying. Ella. Grand Central Hotel, with XX drawn in room window] View northwest across intersection to Grand Central Hotel, earthquake shacks down Polk St. Pedestrians and wagons.
Civic Center
Powell & Ellis
Elevated view northeast across intersection to Golden West Hotel (now Union Square Hotel, 2020) also known as the Pabst Building. Built 1908. Powell Street cable cars at the corner. [Golden West Hotel - cor. Powell and Ellis Sts. F.P. Plagemann, Proprietor]
Downtown / Union Square
Market & New Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Market toward the Palace Hotel burning. Grand Hotel at left. Same original image in wnp37.01186. [E.F. Ford Palace Hotel copyright 1906]
Financial District
6th near Mission
West side on 6th Street between Mission and Howard. [Hotel Henry 106 Sixth Street - Centrally Located Strictly Modern]
South of Market
Turk near Gough
View east on Turk toward Gough, Hotel Jefferson (across from Jefferson Square) [Hotel Jefferson in the heart of SF - Turk and Gough - Stewart Barker Co.](rppc sailboat)
Cathedral Hill
Lombard & Broderick
Marina Motel 2576 Lombard between Broderick and Divisadero, built 1940 [On U.S. Highway No.101 at Entrance to Golden Gate Bridge]
Marina
Lick House
Lick House on Montgomery Street between Post and Sutter Sts. [Decorations in honor of arrival of General U.S. Grant Zan 1240] Grant visited San Francisco in September 1879 as part of his round-the-world tour.
Downtown / Union Square
Santa Rosa
Occidental Hotel, northeast corner of 4th and B Street, Santa Rosa. Entrance shown at 309 B Street. (site of Santa Rosa Plaza, 2020) This building opened 1907 and was demolished 1975. The Ladies Arcade next door. (original of wnp37.02745)
Outside SF
Union Square
[Hotel Plaza, facing Union Square, San Francisco Zan 2511] Northwest corner of Stockton and Post. 450 Sutter Medical Building in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
Elevated view looking northwest across Union Square. 1913 addition to St. Francis Hotel is partially complete. Reviewing stands along Post Street for the Portola Festival (Oct 22-25) which also commemorated Balboa's 'discovery' of the Pacific Ocean. Large replica of Balboa's ship on on display in the square. Nob Hill in the background.
Downtown / Union Square