GG Bridge Opening
Golden Gate Bridge opening. Aerial view through fog of crowd on bridge on Pedestrian Day.
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GG Bridge Opening
Golden Gate Bridge opening. Aerial looking south to Ft. Point
SF Bay
GG Bridge Opening
Golden Gate Bridge opening. Warships steaming under bridge
SF Bay
View up Market
View from Ferry Building looking west down Market
Financial District
Telegraph Hill
View from Russian Hill; Coit Tower
Russian Hill
Islais Creek near 3rd
[Islais Creek from 3rd Street looking west to Twin Peaks, dpwbook47 dpw2716] View west from 3rd Street Bridge. Southern Pacific Railroad trestle in distance. Rosenberg Bros. & Co. Rice Mill No. 1 (opened 1918) on Rankin St. at left. Bernal Heights, Twin Peaks in distance.
Central Waterfront
Islais Creek near Rankin
Elevated view east toward assembled crowd for the celebration and ceremony by the SF Chamber of Commerce to start the Islais Creek Reclamation Project. Rosenberg Bros. & Co. Rice Mill No. 1 (opened 1918) on Rankin St. at far right. Bascule bridge at 3rd Street in distance left. [Islais reclamation district Celebration dpwbook47 dpwA2745]
Central Waterfront
Aquatic Park
View east along Aquatic Park beach to Hyde Street Pier. 3-masted sailing ship 'Balclutha' (then named 'Pacific Queen') tied up at former ferry slip at left. Haslett Warehouse and bleacher seats at right.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View of Alcatraz
[475 Alcatraz Island Perkins] View north from North Beach, between Hyde and Leavenworth. Old houses on Bay Street.
Russian Hill
Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Dock
Elevated view east From Rincon Hill to Pacific Mail dock with sidewheel steamer boats (identified in one source as the Colorado, built 1865, scrapped 1879, Steamer Senator at right (1865-1882)), sailing ships and Yerba Buena Island in background. Oriental Warehouse (built 1867, still stands 2021 at 650 Delancey St.) at left. Three part wooden structure at center is Occidental Warehouse, used for grain storage, with blacksmith and boiler shops to the left. Ad for C.C. Hastings & Co. Clothing at Lick House, 'Use IXL Bitters' on fence. May be part of panorama with Carlton Watkins wnp71.2170. From Watkins Mammoth Plate CEW 611.
South Beach
Great Highway
Golden Gate Park, Maxwell car on promotional Coast to Coast Tour in front of Amundsen's Gjoa. Roald Amundsen's Gjoa was the first ship through the northwest passage in 1906. Donated to San Francisco, she was displayed at the west end of Golden Gate Park from 1909 to 1972, when she was returned to Norway.
Golden Gate Park
View from Telegraph Hill
Bay Bridge & SOMA, looking southeast; Southern Pacific Building (S-P Sign removed August 1961) Fife and Matson Buildings with large electric signs atop. Embarcadero Freeway at left. Bethlehem Steel Corp. Building / 100 California (1960, Welton D. Becket architect) at right. Embarcadero Freeway at left.
Telegraph Hill
Alcatraz
Elevated view north to Alcatraz Island and bay.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Fort Point
[2531 Across the Golden Gate, San Francisco, looking over the Fort.] Schooner in Gate, Marin Headlands.
Presidio
Submarines at sea
[Subs entering Golden Gate] Taken somewhere west of Golden Gate straits