Palace Hotel
Chef presents The Cheesecake to a woman and two men in the Garden Court. [ 2-10-50 Main Dining Room Palace Hotel]
South of MarketPeople
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Broadway, Oakland
Simon Hardware, 800 Broadway on the corner of 8th Street
Outside SF
Broadway, Oakland
Broadway and MacArthur, Oakland. Mayfair Market and shopping center, built in 1937 as the Andrew Williams store, Mayfair Market moved in in the 1950s. The center was demolished in 1964, replaced by another shopping center, which has also since been demolished.
Outside SF
Golden Gate Park
North Lake, Chain of Lakes. 4 people posing on high rustic bridge on to island on North Lake. View South toward Main Drive.
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
Music Concourse, 6 people posing near the Spreckels Temple of Music / Bandshell
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
Music Concourse, a family of 6 posing near the Memorial Museum, later part of de Young Museum.
Golden Gate Park
Kearny near Clay
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Kearny from Clay, Hall of Justice at right. Telephone pole leaning into the street. Telegraph Hill in background. [8773 Kearney (sic) and Hall of Justice after the great disaster.]
Chinatown
Fort Mason
1906 Earthquake and Fire, woman cooking in the street at Fort Mason. [3792 - Preparing dinner for her family - Old Lady cooking on the curb. SF Disaster] View north on MacArthur Ave near General's House, visible through trees at upper center.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Market & 5th
View east on Market St. towards Ferry Building. Chronicle Building, Call Building, Emporium. Notably, Baldwin Hotel is gone but Flood Building hasn't yet been built. Alisky's Art Studio. [3067 Market Street, SF Cal]
South of Market
Unknown Location
Parade for the Golden Jubilee, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of gold. Crowds of people on sidewalks and residences watching the Calaveras County float with men dressed as gold miners around a giant gilded skull. Sign on float 'Calaveras County The County of Skulls ... Great Gold Producers ... production since 1880 would build this skull out of solid gold ... total over $100,000,000.' [San Francisco. The Golden Jubilee]
Deer Glen
Golden Gate Park, view northwest across Bowling Green Drive near Middle Drive (now Nancy Pelosi) toward the entrance to the Deer Glen (now the AIDS Memorial Grove). From at least the 1910's to the 1990's this was known as the De Laveaga Dell, named after settler and philanthropist Jose Vicente de Laveaga. who gave a monetary bequest for its development in the 1890's.
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
Conservatory of Flowers and Garfield Monument, view looking northwest.
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
View north across Music Concourse to Memorial Museum. Originally constructed as the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Man poses, reclining on grass circle in center of Concourse. Building at left was originally the Royal Bavarian Pavilion at the 1894 Fair. It was converted into an annex to the Memorial Museum. Together with the nearby Japanese Village (today's Tea Garden) these were the only buildings not demolished after the fair.
Golden Gate Park
Aquatic Park
View east from Fort Mason to Aquatic Park and Bathhouse / Casino Building (later the Maritime Museum). Large number of bathers on the beach and in the water. Haslett Warehouse, Bay Bridge, and Coit Tower in background.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Lincoln Park
Crowds of people and automobiles in front of the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Elevated view northeast from top of the Legion of Honor colonnade towards Golden Gate, Fort Point and Angel Island. The circular fountain was installed around 1929.
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley