Market near Sansome
View of south side of 500 block. American Trust Company, California Notion & Toys.
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Market & Post
View southeast to Balboa Building on southeast corner of 2nd Street. All buildings in the photo, except for the West Coast Life Building on the right, have since been demolished. Olivetti Company, Nate J. Fulop Co. Clothing.
Financial District
Montgomery & Sutter
View north. 130 Montgomery, a Streamline Moderne building designed by O'Brien Brothers, extant in 2018. The two buildings to the left have since been demolished.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell near Geary
View southwest from Union Square to Elkan Gunst Building (with Air France signage and billboard on roof) with Milton F. Kries restaurant and cosmetics, Techau Tavern. Manx Hotel, Crane Hotel. The Elkan Gunst Building was completed in 1907 by cigar dealer, champagne wholesaler, and former police commissioner Moses A. Gunst, and named after his son. The Hotel Crane was built in 1909 as the Goodfriend Hotel. The Manx Hotel was built by George D. Toy, completed and opened Oct. 1, 1908. Toy grew up in a house on this lot after Daniel Toy, their father, moved the family there in the early 1850s when the area was still known as St. Ann's Valley.(PF) At far right 333 Geary Building (former St. Francis Theater, later Lefty O'Doul's) with Gene Compton's Restaurant. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Grant
View west to Phelan Building. Regal and Florsheim Shoe stores. Roos Bros., Macy's, American Trust Company bank.
South of Market
Sutter near Stockton
View from rooftop toward 450 Sutter building and Mark Hopkins hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
California near Taylor
View to southeast corner of Taylor and Huntington Hotel from yard of Grace Cathedral.
Nob Hill
O'Farrell near Taylor
View to KNBC television building on northeast corner with mural on Taylor Street side. Downtown Center parking garage.
Tenderloin
Larkin & Market
View south across Market to Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart building (Opened 1937, Twitter headquarters in 2018, renamed Market Square) between 9th and 10th Streets.
Civic Center
Bryant near Beale
View southeast from Rincon Hill, Bay Bridge Anchorage above Bryant Street toward Matson Navigation at Pier 32, U.S. Mail facility with truck yard, and Piers 34 and 36. Isbrandtsen, Pacific Ship Repair.
Rincon Hill
Brannan & Embarcadero
View northwest toward Bay Bridge. Union 76 clock tower (built 1955, demolished 2005), U.S. Royal Tires billboard, Schmidt Lithography Clock Tower Building, gas station, Wissman's warehouse.
South Beach
Union Square
View south. Pan American (Pan Am) World Airways, Wooster optician, Qantas billboard with electric clock. City of Paris department store, I. Magnin department store. Men on benches.
Downtown / Union Square
Tennessee & 19th
Acme Paper Box Co. warehouse at 800 Tennessee. Potrero Hill in background. In 2018 part of Dogpatch historic district.
Dogpatch
Bush near Montgomery
View east. Russ Building with garage entrance, Mills Building on corner. E. F. Hutton & Co. Securities.
Downtown / Union Square
Pacific near Laguna
Apartment buildings north side of Pacific between Laguna and Octavia. 2070 Pacific (built 1927) at left. 2060 Pacific (built 1950) at center.
Pacific Heights