Grant & Vinton
View north on Grant Avenue from Vinton Court.
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California & Powell
View east down California towards Bay Bridge and Southern Pacific Building with large S-P sign atop (installed March, 1954). At center, 720 California St. Building (then Hartford Insurance Building) with 2 story addition, Old St. Mary's Church, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building under construction (Completed 1954, demolished 1991). Home Insurance Co. Building with Colonial tower (finished 1951, demolished 1983), Financial Center Building, later Omni Hotel. At right, Delis Garage.
Nob Hill
Haight & Masonic
Southwest corner of Haight and Masonic, Haight St Palace, Inporium African imports, Men's Clothes.
Haight Ashbury
California near Mason
View east from center of California Street, Fairmont Hotel Tonga Room, KSFO, University Club on left. Southern Pacific Building with large S-P sign atop, Bay Bridge in distance. Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel) at right.
Nob Hill
Clay near Waverly
View east from above Waverly on Clay.
Chinatown
International Settement
View to south side of Pacific St., The House of Blue Lights, Bee & Ray Goman's Gay 90s.
North Beach
Pacific near Columbus
Entrance to Barbary Coast Club (later the Little Fox), 533 Pacific, Joe Andrini and his music, Toots LaMay M.C. 'the Sophie Tucker of the West'. "Girlesque on our Stage", "Strips, Laffs, Music", "The Greatest All Girl Revues in Town", "Solly Hoffman, A Dozen Voices and Faces". The area had been rebranded as the International Settlement to promote it as a nightlife district.
North Beach
Hunters Point Shrimp Camp
Chinese Shrimp Camp closed and burned by SF Department of Health. sign
Hunters Point
St. Francis Circle
View north to Arden Wood Christian Science Sanatorium behind trees at left, billboards for Lakeshore Park development ("For Prestige Living, Homes of Character and Distinction", Kraft Mayonnaise.
West Portal
Bryant near 16th
Rainer Brewery, street work removing streetcar tracks
Mission
San Jose Avenue
Looking north to Martha Hill (Dorothy Erskine Park); Removing streetcar tracks
Mission Terrace
Market & Powell
Gallencamps shoe store - looking to 5th and Market, buildings at right demolished for Hallidie Plaza
Downtown / Union Square
Portola & O'Shaughnessy
View east on Portola near O'Shaughnessy. Twin Peaks boulevard rising the background right. Richfield gas station at left at the corner of Woodside.
Miraloma Park
Clarendon Ave
Billboard advertising Sunstream Homes
Parnassus Heights
Turk & Lyon
View south across Turk near Lyon from Arbol Stairs. Billboards lining south side of Turk Street; Twin Peaks and Mt. Sutro in background
Anza Vista