Maiden Lane near Stockton
Crowd of well-dressed people on Maiden Lane, with overhead decorations. Looking west toward Union Square and St. Francis Hotel. Flower festival, Union Square Cocktails.
Downtown / Union SquareSfheritage
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3rd & Berry
Unloading lumber at the Pope & Talbot yard. Two schooners tied up at right, one the Okanagan.
Mission Bay
Ferry Building
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake-damaged Ferry Building viewed through ruins at foot of Market Street. Repairs to tower in progress. The cast iron-column and brick ruins in the foreground are all that remained after the earthquake and fire of the Seamen's Institute, an Anglican mission to sailors at 29-33 Steuart Street since the mid-1890s. The building had been built in 1888-1889 as the Gualala Mill Co. After 1906, the Seamen's Institute rebuilt two blocks further south on Steuart. (WMK)
Financial District
Embarcadero
U.S. Navy cruiser 'USS Bremerton' tied up at Pier 20 on the Embarcadero. Bay Bridge and Pier 22 at right.
Rincon Hill
USS Bremerton
U.S. Navy cruiser 'USS Bremerton' CA 130 tied up at Pier 20 on the Embarcadero.
Rincon Hill
Embarcadero
Three U.S. Navy destroyers tied up at the Embarcadero.
Embarcadero
Gun turrets and radar masts of three U.S. Navy destroyers tied up at the Embarcadero
Unknown Location
Girl in bobby sox posing in front of an unidentified residence.
Embarcadero
Stern view of freighter 'Jean Lafitte' tied up at unidentified pier on the Embarcadero, probably either Pier 3 or 5. Security Lithograph sign in distance.
Embarcadero
Bow view of freighter 'Jean Lafitte' tied up at unidentified pier on the Embarcadero. Probably either pier 3 or 5. Yerba Buena Island in distance.
Lurline Ocean Liner
Bow view of Matson Lines' passenger liner 'Lurline." Probably Pier 32, where Matson Lines had their facilities.
South Beach
Market & Taylor
Elevated view looking east on Market from intersection of Market, Taylor and Golden Gate. Loew's Warfield Theater at left. Final week of January 1929; Ramon Novarro in 'The Flying Fleet' on the Warfield screen. Lina Basquette (actress) in person. Owl Drug Co lower left. On south side of Market, St. Francis Theatre, Simon Millinery Co., Kress Stores, Hale Bros. (with KPO Radio towers on roof), Emporium, Humboldt Bank Building, Call Building.
Tenderloin
Post & Powell
Elevated view northeast from St. Francis Hotel to Fitzhugh Building (completed January, 1924) on corner of Post and Powell Streets. Cosgrave's clothing store, That Man Pitts.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Battery
Elevated view northeast of unidentified parade heading west on Market Street during Diamond Jubilee (then 75 years) of California statehood. Multiple parades were held over several days. People watch from windows and rooftops. From left, New Orleans Coffee Parlor and Kewell Fishing Tackle, Board of Trade Building (with Emmons Draying Co., Burke's Paints, Warner Bros. Radio) Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop, Ferry Building with 1925 on tower and "Welcome To California For The Diamond Jubilee" sign.
Financial District
Market & Battery
Elevated view northeast of unidentified parade heading west on Market Street during Diamond Jubilee (then 75 years) of California statehood. Multiple parades were held over several days. People watch from windows and rooftops. From left, New Orleans Coffee Parlor and Kewell Fishing Tackle, Board of Trade Building (with Emmons Draying Co., Burke's Paints, Warner Bros. Radio) Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop, Ferry Building with 1925 on tower and "Welcome To California For The Diamond Jubilee" sign.
Financial District