Grant near California
View north on Grant Avenue toward California. Decoration for Shrine convention hanging over street reads 'Welcome Nobles'. New Grant Hotel, Hotel Yamato, Shanghai Low, horse and wagon.
ChinatownSign
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Grant near Sutter
Exterior with sign 'Hirsch & Kaye' photo supplies at 239 Grant Ave.
Downtown / Union Square
Weinstein's Drugs
160 Ellis near Mason. Night view of display window of Weinstein Co. Cut-Price Drugs, Liquors. Blurry.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Beale
Night view looking east on Market. At left Hansford Building 268 Market (1908), Glenwood Building, Fife Building (1909, demolished 1966). At right, PG&E and Matson Buildings. Camera movement.
Financial District
Sansome & Clay
Plaque mounted on side of building commemorating location of ship 'Niantic.' Sign reads Shrimp Oyster
Financial District
Market near 7th
View east on Market toward 7th during BART construction. Municipal Railway (MUNI) PCC streetcar #1016. Construction equipment. Locker Club on north side of Market, demolished for United Nations Plaza. Crocker Center (McKesson) at Post and Market under construction in distance
South of Market
Fisherman's Wharf
Night view north on Taylor from Jefferson. Excelsior Fish Market, Sabella-Latorre, Cresci Bros., Lighthouse, Alioto's, Fishermen's Grotto, Matson Terminal Pier 45.
Fishermans Wharf
Geary at Kearny
View east on Geary to Lotta's Fountain and Sheraton Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building with Eureka Federal Savings & Loan. Muni N-line streetcar #124 with wings livery, ad for St. Francis Mural Room and sign for Football Today at Kezar Stadium. Stag Bar and Dinty's Kitchen on right in Flannery Building. Granville's Jewelers on left. Top Hat bar and Dr. M.B. Rich optometrist. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary near Kearny
View east down Geary to Lotta's Fountain, Sheraton Palace Hotel, Chronicle and Monadnock Building (with Eureka Federal Savings). Mun C-Line streetcar #208 with wings livery. Foster's Cafeteria, Schmidt Building, Granville's Jewelers on left, Stag bar on right. Birdcage traffic signal. (Rail service on Lines B & C ended in December 1956)
Downtown / Union Square
Stockton near Sacramento
View north on Stockton from the top of the Stockton Tunnel toward Sacramento Street.
Nob Hill
Pacific near Taylor
View east on Pacific between Taylor and Salmon Alley toward Mason. Bay Bridge in the background, Cable Car on Mason Street crossing Pacific
Nob Hill
Powell & Eddy
View west on Eddy from Powell. Powell Street cable car #501 on the turntable. Eddy street is now blocked to traffic at this point and most building on the left were demolished for Hallidie Plaza. Bank of America with large electric clock in entry in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Embarcadero & Market
View west on from the foot of Market Street across a fenced-in landscaped area in ferry loop plaza. MUNI starters kiosk at center. Buildings on the immediate blocks closest to the camera have all been demolished for plazas. Hobart, Call Buildings in the distance. Ensign Cafe, Alameda Cafe, Hotel Terminal, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop.
Financial District
Fishman's Wharf
View north across Fisherman's Wharf boat basin from Jefferson Street between Taylor and Jones. Not many fishing boats, Fishermen's Grotto Restaurant in background
Fishermans Wharf
West Portal & Ulloa
View southwest on West Portal from Ulloa. MUNI M-Line PCC streetcar #1135. View of south side businesses.
West Portal