Stockton & Post
View southeast across Union Square and Stockton to Benioff Fashions; TWA Building; City of Paris Department Store; I Magnin's, which opened in 1948; two F-line streetcars. Old Crow Bourbon billboard.
Downtown / Union SquarePublic Square
Contains 126 photos
Civic Center Plaza
[Zan 343 Feeding Pigeons at Civic Center, San Francisco, Redwood Empire Assn. Photo] View south to Civic Auditorium
Civic Center
Stockton & Geary
Elevated view northwest over Union Square to Calvary Church; First Congregational Church, Trinity Church; National Guard Armory; Mark Hopkins mansion upper right
Downtown / Union Square
Green near Jones
View east from Russian Hill to Telegraph Hill; Layman's Castle; St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Original Ss. Peter & Paul church at Filbert and Grant, Washington Square, J. L. Williams Groceries.; St. Francis of Assisi Church.
Russian Hill
Post near Powell
View north from Union Square to National Guard Armory (dedicated on March 6, 1864), Post between Powell & Stockton Streets, Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street behind. Portion of Trinity Episcopal Church (Cornerstone laid late 1866, dedicated September 22, 1867) on left
Downtown / Union Square
St. Francis Hotel
View west from Union Square, before construction of northernmost wing, which opened in 1913.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
Elevated view north to Fairmont Hotel, towers of rebuilt Temple Emanu-El, Dewey Monument, Union Square Hotel at right. Reconstruction after earthquake. [Post St. Between Stockton and Powell 637]
Downtown / Union Square
Clay Street Cable Car
[TEH3 T. E. Hecht] Clay St. Hill RR company. #10 car at Clay & Kearny terminus. Passengers possibly include Andrew Hallidie in first row, center. C.P. Shaack store, 706 Kearny, Uncle Harris pawn shop, 702-4 Kearny in background. Portsmouth Square at left. Same image as right frame from Houseworth Stereoview 'No. 273. Clay Street Hill Railroad'
Chinatown
Columbus & Union
View north across intersection to Muni PCC #1006 with wings livery, marked for X-11th St. Only service, on rail fan excursion. Washington Square in background, Sts. Peter & Paul Church at right. (X-Line really wasn't a revenue line; Muni used that designation for fan trips, charters, test runs, etc., which inevitably reached wherever they were going by way of 11th Street and the H line from and to the Mariposa Barn.)
North Beach
Clay & Kearny
Elevated view east across Portsmouth Square, Plaza Intelligence Office, Stage Office with stagecoach outside at left, Young's clothing store, carriages, ships. [TEH405 Former Post Office the Rally of the Law & Order Party. George Fardon 1856 T.E. Hecht] (Published in 1856, G.R. Fardon's San Francisco Album).
Chinatown
TWA building
View from Union Square to east side of Stockton St. and Maiden Lane.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
View southeast across Square to sunbather, people relaxing on benches, Dewey Monument, I. Magnin and City of Paris. [Saturday Morning]
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
St. Francis Hotel, Dewey Monument , people on bench
Downtown / Union Square
Civic Center
[Billie Traverston, Johanna Wolff, Richard G Washington. The World Peace Flag. In Armistice Day Parade, Nov. 11, 1926] Three children dressed as queen and pages. Girl's dress has world peace flag design. Library building in background.
Civic Center
Portola Festival
[King and Queen at Union Square] View northeast to Portola celebration. Military band, palm trees, Union Square Hotel on north side of Post, Schroth Building (1908, architect Cunningham & Politeo) on Stockton at far right.
Downtown / Union Square