Maiden Lane
View east from near Stockton. At the end of the street you can see the Metropolis Bank building (1908). V.C. Morris Store (Frank Lloyd Wright, architect) at left. Union Square Cocktails, Junipero Serra Shop.
Downtown / Union SquareRetail
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Stockton & Geary
View east across Stockton to flower vendor with cable car themed flower stand outside City of Paris. Sheraton Palace Hotel in background left.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Fillmore
Elevated view northwest across intersection to Estes Kefauver, Democratic candidate for Vice-President, during his unsuccessful campaign for President, shaking hands. Owl Drugs, Lane's in background. [SF Examiner]
Western Addition
Broad near Plymouth
View southeast across Broad St. to M-Line Magic Carpet streetcar #1001 with wings livery on BAERA (Bay Area Electric Rail Association) charter. Columbus Liquors & Variety Store at right. Buildings in photo still stand in 2023.
Oceanview
Mason near Market
Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad, Fairmont Hotel in distance. The date range for this photo is the production of Florodora, which played for the first time in SF at the Tivoli, from April 9, 1905 through May 7, 1905, and did not have a follow up run before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Metropole lodging house is on the left of the photo. The Hotel Inverness was completed in early 1904. Pacific Shirt Co., Drs. Kergan & Kergan Electric Sanitarium, J.J. Gildea Outfitters, Cohn Bros. Jewelers, The Diamond House, 1034 Market.[No. 15. Mason St. north from Market]
Tenderloin
Lick House
Elevated view northwest across Montgomery between Sutter and Post Sts. L to R: Masonic Temple, Kerby, Byrne & Co., Meagher Taaffe & Co., N Skerrett, J.W. Davidson & Co.[143. The Lick House - from the corner of Market and Montgomery streets.]
Financial District
Occidental Hotel
140. Occidental Hotel, Montgomery Street, from the Russ House, East side of Montgomery between Sutter and Bush. Elevated view southeast. T.J. Broderick Boot & Shoe Store.
Financial District
Grant near Pine
Postcard view north on Grant from Pine. Shanghai Low restaurant at right. New Grant Hotel, Hotel Yamato, Sing Chong Co. Far East Cafe and Hang Far Low noodles in distance. [San Francisco's famous Chinatown, the largest outside China itself.] [Zan 1701]
Chinatown
Kearny & Post
View west to White House, Davidson & Co. Lavishly decorated retail store on northwest corner Kearny and Post, with patriotic decorations for Grand Army of the Republic G.A.R, painting of Washington and Lafayette at center. Young boys posing in front, crowd looking in store window. [White House Department Store at the corner Kearny & Post Sts. S.F. decorated in honor of G.A.R. Aug 86]
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Stockton
Bob with flower vendor, Isaac Rousso, at cable car themed flower stand in front of City of Paris department store. I. Magnin store in background.
Downtown / Union Square
West Portal & Ulloa
View southwest on West Portal Avenue to Municipal Railway (Muni) K-Line #1116 approaching the tunnel, stopped in the intersection. Eezy Freezy Market, Rive Gauche restaurant, Red Carpet Realtors, Empire Theater. West Portal Market, San Carlos Liquor, Eugenia's Hairstylist.
West Portal
Grant & Maiden Lane
View south on Grant. Matthew Geller in Juvenile Building, built 1909, A.C. Lutgens architect. Livingston Bros. Building, built 1920, G. Albert Lansburgh architect. H. Liebes store, Wells Fargo Bank, Maiden Lane. Banner and large decorative lampposts at entrances to Maiden Lane.
Downtown / Union Square
Post & Grant
View east on Post Street from Grant Avenue. Shoppers crowd the sidewalk. Balboa Building in the distance. Retail Shops.
Downtown / Union Square
O'Farrell & Stockton
Looking toward Grant. Saving Union Bank & Central Tower.
Downtown / Union Square
Washington & Grant
View southeast to the former Chinatown Exchange, also called the Chinese Telephone Exchange, center left. The Lucky Corner liquor and grocery store.
Chinatown