Contains 2400 photos
View west. Maxine Dress Shop, Baldwin Pianos, Hotel Francis, Fred Astaire Dance Studio, New Delmonico. 450 Sutter building in distance. Most of the buildings on the right side of the street were demolished to make way for the Sutter-Stockton parking garage.
Downtown / Union Square
View towards northwest corner. The Glovatorium, Clift Market, Lewin Drug Co., Geary-Taylor hotel apartments.
Tenderloin
View west. Hotel Germain. Ellis-O'Farrell parking garage almost finished with sign advertising opening around August 1. Golden State Hotel in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Union Square north. Louis & Co., Atlas Drugs, Hotel Drake Wiltshire advertising Charcoal Room and Cameo Room bars in distance (Taj Campton Place Hotel in 2018).
Downtown / Union Square
View north towards Mills Building on corner of Bush. E. F. Hutton & Co. Securities in bank building at 160 Montgomery, which has since been demolished.
Downtown / Union Square
Barrett U-Drive Garage Truck Depot and Leasing building across street at 735 Harrison. Building extant in 2018. Billboard for Milo Coffee.
South of Market
View across Sutter to south side of block and down Lick Place alley. Parking garage, Reva Blouses, Barrett U-Drive, Buckbee Thorne & Co. Real Estate. In 2018, site of Crocker Galleria.
Downtown / Union Square
View south to Stonestown Shopping Center. Stonestown Market, Walgreens Drugs, Butler Brothers, Joseph Magnin, Toy World, Bruce Bary.
Stonestown
View to line of warehouses. Packard-Bell, Apparel City, Nelson-Kent Refrigeration Inc., Globe Quilting.
Apparel City
View north at Stonestown Apartment towers across lawns. Line of autos, Chevys, Buicks.
Stonestown
View of south side of 500 block. American Trust Company, California Notion & Toys.
Financial District
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
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
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
View west to Phelan Building. Regal and Florsheim Shoe stores. Roos Bros., Macy's, American Trust Company bank.
South of Market