Contains 940 photos
View northeast across intersection to approaching California Street Cable Railroad Co. car on O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line. In background, Omar Khayyam's, Ahrens Bros. Pies, Bakery Products, St. Marlow Hotel, Macy's. In distance, Central Tower (former Call Building) and Kamm Building on Market Street. Omar Khayyam's is in a 1906 building, redesigned in 1933 in Moderne style.
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest across Castro to Market Street Railway (MSRy) Castro Cable Car #5 at terminus. Wulzen's Drugs with Dr. R.D. Crittenden dentist on 2nd floor and "Re-elect assemblyman Ray Williamson 26th District" sign, Eureka Bakery in background.
Castro
View west on Pacific toward Kearny. Prescott House 933 Kearny on the Southwest corner at left. Many of the buildings down the street were moved or demolished here for Montgomery Avenue. (later Columbus Ave.) construction. [Pacific street from Kearney (Sic)- looking West. 1385]
North Beach
[China Town] View north on Grant Avenue (formerly Dupont St.) toward California St. Trademark Building on left, Sing Fat Co., Sing Chong Co., Chinese Bazaar, Shanghai Low. Glass street globe lights.
Chinatown
Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad, Nob Hill mansions, Fairmont Hotel, St. Francis 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 St 1906]
South of Market
View northeast to President Theodore Roosevelt in lead carriage turning the corner from Sutter onto Kearny. Pauson & Co. clothiers, Nathan-Dohrmann Co. store with street clock in front at 122-130 Sutter in background. Big crowds, several carriages behind.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view southwest across Market to California Academy of Sciences, F. W. Wright & Co., Emporium (Parrott Building). possible postcard view of south side of Market. [Emporium, Parrot (sic) Building, 1905]
Downtown / Union Square
View north on Grant Ave, to Clay St. intersection. Pedestrians on sidewalk, carts and autos in the road. Sing Chong store, 800 Grant, on northeast corner of Clay and Grant.
Chinatown
[Sourdough, Bread, Cheese] Interior of delicatessen with salamis, bread and cheese.
View NE to 'Victorian Park' in Aquatic Park and the Haslett Warehouse. Ruth Asawa fountain at lower right
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Woman poses with mannequin in amusing T-shirt.
View north on Grant Avenue between Sacramento and Commercial, Four Seas restaurant, Empress of China, Eastern Bakery, United Art Center.
Chinatown
Overhead view taken from upper level of Cannery of plaza and marketplace between the Cannery and Haslett Warehouse at right. View to the south with Beach Street in center distance.
Fishermans Wharf
View west across Grant to flower stand with peaked corrugated fiberglass roof, Brooks Brothers store in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast to The Lucky Corner grocery and liquor store, former Chinatown Exchange, also called the Chinese Telephone Exchange building.
Chinatown