Post & Grant
Southeast corner of Post and Grant. Cook's Travel Service, Frank Werner Mens Shoes, Bally Shoes, and Benioff's Department store at right. Building at center has since been heavily remodeled.
Downtown / Union SquareScrap
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Market & Stockton
View north across Market. Roos Brothers at center, Phelan Building at right. City of Paris, Joseph Magnin, Stockton Tunnel in distance left. [Roos Bros - Mr. Kern - Equitable]
South of Market
Embarcadero & Merchant
View northwest to Ferry Station Post Office, Embarcadero & Merchant, now site of Sue Bierman Park. Embarcadero Freeway construction in foreground. The building survived freeway and the nearby Golden Gateway construction, but was torn down in approximately 1967. Coit Tower, background right. [Bldg by Embarcadero]
Financial District
Geary & Grant
View southeast across intersection to 77 Geary, Liebes Building, built 1909 (William Mooser, architect) with remodeling in 1919 and 1929 [Liebes Bros] M. Dunn & Co Furs.
Downtown / Union Square
Battery near Broadway
A. Giurlani & Bro.(Star Fine Foods) 840 Battery between Broadway & Vallejo. Battery Street on ramp of Embarcadero Freeway at right. [840 Battery - E.S. Merriman]
Northern Waterfront
Battery near Broadway
A. Giurlani & Bro.(Star Fine Foods) 840 Battery between Broadway & Vallejo. Battery Street on ramp of Embarcadero Freeway at right. [840 Battery - E.S. Merriman]
North Beach
Powell & O'Farrell
View across intersection toward southeast corner of Powell and O'Farrell. The Downtown Center Building at left was remodeled around 1960 from the Department Store Building, which itself was remodeled from the Avalon Hotel around 1953. It was built in 1909 as the Orpheum Annex Hotel, through 1921. (PF)
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & O'Farrell
View across intersection toward southeast corner of Powell and O'Farrell. Hof Brau, Hotel Herbert, Japan Air Lines.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Taylor
View west in front of Hotel Bellevue. Hunt Room, Tiger Room, and High Tide bars. El Cortez Hotel, Hotel Geary in distance. The Glovatorium cleaners, Veda's beauty parlor, Rembrandt Gallery.
Tenderloin
Mason & Sacramento
View from Pacific-Union Club parking lot to northeast corner and Brocklebank Apartments (designed by architects Weeks & Day in 1926.)
Nob Hill
Bryant & 3rd
View to Schwabacher-Frey Company building at 524 3rd Street. Firm was longtime printer and lithographer in San Francisco.
South of Market
Powell & O'Farrell
View to southeast corner and Elevated Shops building. Optometrists, S.F. School of Fashion Design, tailors, luggage shop, Tro Harper Books. Track crossing from O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde cable car line still present in intersection.
Downtown / Union Square
Bryant & Zoe
View to southwest corner and Shreve & Company jewelers warehouse at 539 Bryant, built 1912, still stands 2021, architect Nathaniel Blaisdell. Burgermeister Beer billboard.
South of Market
Broadway & Battery
View to northwest corner to Security Lithograph warehouse at 200 Broadway. Longtime television station building (KPIX in 2018) now addressed as 825 Battery. Originally built 1907 as the American Biscuit Company building, Ralph Warner Hart architect.
Northern Waterfront
Buckingham Way
View north at Stonestown Apartment towers across lawns.
Stonestown