Van Ness near Hayes
View north on Van Ness Ave towards City Hall. (detail of wnp4.1398)
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Contains 67 photos
Market & Montgomery
De Gaulle visit. View west to north side of Market .Parade with de Gaulle standing in convertible in front of Crocker Building
Downtown / Union Square
California near Battery
Elevated view east on California to Charles De Gaulle parade. Balloons and confetti in the air. De Gaulle standing and waving in second car. Southern Pacific building with large S-P sign on roof and Fife Building with Hamm's sign atop in distance. At right, 255 California (built as John Hancock Building 1958, architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Edward Charles Bassett).
Financial District
Ninth & Market
French President Charles De Gaulle Visit. Elevated view south to motorcade on Ninth Street. People lining streets waving French flags. Shasta Hardware, The Mart Restaurant, Mart Stationers. Hotel Whitcomb parking lot, Blackstone Apartments.
South of Market
US101 near Cesar Chavez
View north on US101. Police motorcycle. Potrero Hill in background. [San Francisco Police Department]
Peralta Heights
US101 near Cesar Chavez
View north on US101 onramp. Police motorcycle merging. SF General Hospital in background. [San Francisco Police Department]
Peralta Heights
California near Mason
View east past Fairmont Hotel, KSFO offices, Tonga Room, University Club, International Building, Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel), to Bay Bridge. Top of the Mark entrance at right.
Nob Hill
Union near Steiner
Elevated view north across Union to MUNI streetcar accident. E-line streetcar collision with MUNI D-line streetcar. Union-Steiner Market, Shumate's Drugs. Ad for Raymond Scott and his orchestra at the Palace Hotel.
Union Street
Unknown Location
Man on motorcycle with sidecar, Italianate flat front cottage behind.
O'Farrell near Jones
South side of O'Farrell between Jones and Taylor - American Cancer Society, Budget Market Liquors. All buildings in this view demolished, except for the building on the left edge of the photo. [Property Management]
Tenderloin
O'Farrell & Powell
View East on O'Farrell from Powell. Omar Khayyam's Restaurant, Cable Car Clothiers, St. Moritz Hotel, Macy's. Phelan Building, Central Tower (former Call Building) in distance. Remains of cable car track crossing from O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde cable car line still present in intersection. [Equitable - Aug 23]
Downtown / Union Square
Geary near Van Ness
View northeast across to Municipal Railway D-line streetcar #45 with wings livery. All of the buildings on the left were demolished in 2015. Prompt Radio & Television Co. Apparently taken at same time as wnp14.3867.
Tenderloin
Ocean near Howth
View west on Ocean between Howth and Southern Pacific right-of-way (now I280 Freeway) Westbound Muni L-line #354
Oceanview
Steam Motorcycle
The Steam Flyer (now at Musee Mecanique) [N.F. Gillenwaters 1517 E Street Sacramento, Ca])
Powell near Ellis
Bike messenger talking with motorcycle police officer.
Downtown / Union Square