Ferry Building
View of Ferry Building Tower from foot of Market Street. Sign reads 'SF Welcomes S.S. California Goliath of the Seas.'
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O'Farrell near Powell
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on O'Farrell between Stockton and Powell before the fire. Debris, bricks in the street, Orpheum theatre with round awning at right. People wandering through the street. Original Phelan Building in distance center, portion of Alcazar Theater at far left.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 4th
Night view west on Market toward 4th Street, California Theatre at left ( Gloria Swanson in Prodigal Daughters), Roos Brothers and Crystal Cafeteria (762 Market) at right
Downtown / Union Square
Post near Stockton
View east on Post toward Stockton, Adlai Stevenson campaign parade passing Hotel Plaza at Union Square.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Geary
Elevated view southeast on Market from the intersection of Kearny and Geary. Lotta's Fountain in foreground. Chronicle Building with clock above entrance, Palace Hotel (with Schwabacher Co. in corner retail space), Metropolis Bank Building with United Bank sign atop, Santa Fe building/West Coast Life Insurance, Balboa Building, Underwood Building, PG&E, Matson Lines and Ferry Buildings in distance. [South side of Market showing Palace Hotel 68]
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
Elevated wideangle view southeast from Post and Powell across Union Square. Powell Street cable car #518 at right.[11416]
Downtown / Union Square
22nd & Valencia
View north across intersection of 22nd and Valencia. Municipal Railway (Muni) 11-Line streetcar #432 (Former MSRy #132 re-numbered #432 in order to avoid confusion with MUNI unit #132) passing Gothic Revival building built 1927 on northeast corner at 3296 22nd Street. Mitch's Drive-In in background right. Birdcage traffic signal.
Mission
California & Market
View southwest from California and Market. California Street cable car #14 at terminal. Advertisement for Pope & Talbot centennial on top of cable car. Matson Building, PG&E Building, Fife Building in background.
Financial District
California near Hyde
View northeast across California between Hyde and Leavenworth. California Street cable car in background. Enterprise Garage at 1350 California at left demolished.
Nob Hill
Market & Stockton
View east on Market toward Call Building. Midway Plaisance 'Big Show Burlesque', Sanborn Vail & Co. Dixon's Hatter & Furnisher, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Lion Drug Co. listed in City Directories 1901-1904
Downtown / Union Square
O'Farrell & Stockton
View east on O'Farrell toward intersection with Market and Grant. Call Building in background. Oberon Music Hall in Shiels Building (38 O'Farrell, offices and lodge halls) left of center. In the Kohler & Chase building (with Decker Bros. Piano sign) basement is site of the Belvedere Music Hall (began operations about July, 1904). The three-story building just after it is the Fire Station for Truck No. 1. Phelan Building at right. (PF) Bancroft History Building across Market St. in distance with Ayres' Business College sign. Sign on building across Market for Sarah Cowell LeMoyne in 'The First Duchess Marlborough' at the Columbia Theatre, which played there in November, 1901. (see also wnp27.7594 taken minutes apart)
Downtown / Union Square
23rd & South Van Ness
View across South Van Ness toward the southeast corner.1201-1205 South Van Ness on the corner, with a bar called the Towne House Club (now a produce store), built 1891. 1207-1211 also built 1891.
Mission
Broadway near Drumm
View west on Broadway from Drumm, showing Southern Pacific rail yard. Accident report 5470 - Gorman Case. A United Railroads streetcar #689 in an accident with Pacific Fruit Express freight car. Hotel Evans in the background. [U03288]
Northern Waterfront
Hyde Street Pier
View north on Hyde at Jefferson, Automobiles lined up waiting for Car Ferry at Hyde Street Pier
Fishermans Wharf
Market & 1st
Elevated view west on Market across Battery. Many streetcars, automobiles, pedestrians. The block at right, with Selig Bros. Wholesale Tailors, is now the site of Zellerbach Plaza. Remington Rand Inc. at left. (negative badly deteriorating, discarded)
Financial District