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]
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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
3rd & Brannan
View to southeast corner. American Trust Company Bank, San Francisco Warehouse Co., MJB Coffee. All three buildings on Brannan towards the left edge of the photo have since been demolished.
South of Market
Polk & O'Farrell
View to northeast corner. Originally the J. E. French Company service and parts center building, completed in May 1923. French was a Dodge auto dealer. Razed for the Trinity Towers project, which was completed in 1988. Hotel President visible in background. (PF)
Tenderloin
2nd & Folsom
View across to southeast corner and McCormick Schilling company building at 301 2nd Street. Clock Tower building and freeway visible on right. People in line on left; others waiting for bus?
South of Market
Post near Stockton
View across to Gump's department store at 250 Post.
Downtown / Union Square
Sutter near Stockton
View of north side of block. 450 Sutter visible on left. Row of buildings occupied by Sutter-Stockton parking garage in 2018. MUNI bus #0257. The Yosemite fountain, Philadelphia sandwich shop, Gaffney Building, California Umbrella Works, Sal's Hosiery.
Downtown / Union Square