Union Square
View looking northwest rom the Corner of Stockton & Geary. St. Francisc Hotel at left, Dewey Monument.
Downtown / Union SquarePedestrians
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Union Square
View looking northwest from Stockton & Geary. St. Francis Hotel, Dewey Monument
Downtown / Union Square
Grant & Geary
View to southeast corner decorated with flowers, H. Liebes Department Store, in old I. Magnin building, Union Trust Bank building (then Wells Fargo) - Birdcage Traffic Signal. 49 Mile Scenic Drive sign.
Downtown / Union Square
Post & Powell
View southeast across intersection to Union Square, I. Magnin & Co., Macy's, Dohrmann's, George S. May, Western Airlines on Geary. Cable Car #509. Very large Union Pacific Railroad Billboard, Old Crow Billboard. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
California near Grant
View northeast across California between Stockton and Grant. Sabin Place and 720 California St. building with 2 story addition at left. Cathay House, Old St. Mary's church at center, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building (1954, demolished 1991), Fireman's Fund Building (built as Home Insurance Company Building 1951, demolished 1983). Southern Pacific Building in distance, with S-P sign atop. Wells Fargo Headquarters Building at 464 California under construction in distance.
Chinatown
Stockton & Sutter
View north on Stockton from Sutter. Stockton Tunnel in the background. Page Boy Maternity Shop and Navarre Guest House Hotel at left, Hotel Victoria background right. Buildings at far right demolished for Sutter-Stockton Parking Garage.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Hyde
View north across Market toward the Pioneer Monument in its original location at Hyde & Grove Streets. Old Main Library (now Asian Art Museum) in the background. In 1993, the monument was moved to the pedestrian mall on Fulton Street between the Asian Art Museum and the new Main Library.
Civic Center
Market & Powell
Market & Powell, looking west on Eddy St.
South of Market
Market near Fremont
Festival of Progress Parade, looking southeast across Market to Fremont St. Horse-drawn carriage and people in costume passing West Coast Electronics Store. Greyhound Building at 371 Market.
Financial District
14th & Church
Looking east on 14th across Market, 37-line Corbett bus.
Duboce Triangle
Powell & O'Farrell
View northeast across Powell to Cable Car #504, Marlow Hotel, Hotel Stratford, Fitzhugh Building, and Omar Khayyam's restaurant.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
View north across Market and up Powell St. Flood Building, Owl Drug .Co, Cable Car on turntable, St. Francis and Sir Francis Drake Hotels in distance. Bank of America Building, Powell Theatre on left. Birdcage traffic signals. Woolworth's opened in Flood Building street level in October, 1952.
Downtown / Union Square
Grant near Sacramento
Chinatown. View north on Grant Ave toward intersection with Sacramento St. Neon signs advertising Hang Far Low restaurant, 'The Chop Stick' restaurant at 747 Grant, Western Union Office, Kimonos and Tai Ping Chop Suey.
Chinatown
Union Square
Looking East to Dewey Monument, Hotel Plaza, Russ Building
Downtown / Union Square
War Memorial Building
Veterans Building, looking west across Van Ness Ave from steps of City Hall.
Civic Center