Contains 940 photos
Elevated view west across Market to Grant and O'Farrell intersection. Original Phelan Building (completed April, 1882) at left. New Louvre Cafe on O'Farrell at right. [7953 O'Farrell and Market Street Junction. Taber]
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Grant past sidewalk flower stand with corrugated fiberglass roof on Grant between Geary and O'Farrell. Grant Avenue entrance of H. Liebes store (77 Geary, 90 Grant) and Wells Fargo Bank in background. .
Downtown / Union Square
Night view south on Grant Ave. Lanterns hanging alongside and over street. Republic Hotel, Kan's Food, Far East Cafe, Sky Room, Lamps of China, Bank of America. [Nighttime-Chinatown K 1418]
Chinatown
View north to crowded scene on Grant Avenue in Chinatown. Bank of America, Four Seas Restaurant, Republic Hotel, Kan's Restaurant, Kuo Wah, Chinese Village.
Chinatown
View northeast across Geary from Stanyan, SF Municipal Railway (Muni) B-line Streetcar #77 with wings livery.
Lone Mountain
View northwest across Castro to Market Street Railway (MSRy) Cable Car #3, 8-Line streetcar. Castro Theatre, Castro Grill, Bon Omi Store, Eureka Florist, Prudence Penny grocery Store in background. [15th & Castro 1939]
Castro
View north on Kearny across Market. Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle Building with Security Finance Co., W & H Cigars Liquors on the right. KSAY Radio sign on Schmidt Building, Granville's Jewelers with Bulova clock, Pastine's, O.P.O Clothes, Iron Horse, Moores on left.
South of Market
View west across Market at Front. Crown Zellerbach (aka One Bush, completed 1959) and Shell Buildings. Top of Postal Telegraph Building, Board of Trade Building, Tilden Sales Building with water tank atop. Cigar store at center foreground. Donahue Mechanics Monument at lower left. Buildings in foreground later demolished.
Financial District
View north down Stockton from across Market. Roos Atkins and Joseph Magnin at right; Mayflower Restaurant, Foreman & Clark with large clock and Macy's at left.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across Castro from 18th Street. 8-Line trolley bus #880 turning onto 18th. Bon Omi Stores, Castro Flower Shop, Jack's Liquor and Fine Foods in background.
Castro
View northeast across Mission from 18th Street. Harris's Town Pump, Lakeside Liquors, Dagmar Hotel, Don's Restaurant, Bohr's Menswear along Mission Street. Trolley bus #656 at intersection.
Mission
View north on Fillmore from O'Farrell. Municipal Railway (Muni) 22-line streetcar #867 with zip stripe livery. Jack & Milt liquor store, Coleman Attell's pawn shop, Kay Appliances, Waxman's Bakery, Anglo-California National Bank. Many buildings in this view demolished for redevelopment.
Japantown
View north on Fillmore from Geary to Municipal Railway (Muni) 22-line streetcar #884 with wings livery. Owl Drug, Painless Parker dentist, Hotel Annex James Gibb Building, Martell's Liquors. Buildings on the right side in this view demolished for redevelopment.
Western Addition
View east on Broad toward Capitol. Municipal Railway (Muni) M-line Streetcar #139, Broad Street Hardware and Stephen's Grocery at left with Coca-Cola advertising. Firehouse 33 in distance right.
Oceanview
View northeast across intersection from Mission. Muni 22-line Streetcar #864 with zip stripe livery, Owl Drug at the northeast corner (demolished for BART plaza), Redstone Building (Labor Temple) in the background right.
Mission