View E from Mark Hopkins
Looking east from Mark Hopkins Hotel to Yerba Buena Island/. Chinatown, Old Hall of Justice, Ferry Building.
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Market & Castro
looking down Market St from Market and Clayton
Clarendon Heights
Top of the Mark
Grace Cathedral, Huntington Park, fog coming in through Golden Gate, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio transmission tower atop (1930, architect Albert Larsen), 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928), Palace of Fine Arts.
Downtown
Top of the Mark
View northwest to thick fog coming in through Golden Gate. Palace of Fine Arts in distance left. Marin Headlands and Mt. Tamalpais. Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on top. Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928. At far left, Chambord Apartments at Sacramento and Jones. Grace Cathedral with bell tower at lower left.
Downtown
View from Twin Peaks
View Downtown from Upper Market. Alvarado School; Castro Hill, Dolores Heights; Vacant lots
Upper Market
O'Farrell & Cyril Magnin
Elevated view east to Hotel Manx, Macy's at O'Farrell and Stockton at center. Wells Fargo building under construction in background. Central Tower (Call Building), Whittell Building and Equitable Building also visible.
Downtown
Ferry Building From Bay
12 noon; looking west from bay; Southern Pacific Building (S-P sign removed in September 1961); Shell Building; Russ Building, Bethlehem Steel Corp. Building / 100 California (1960, Welton D. Becket architect), Mark Hopkins Hotel.
Financial District
Presidio
Elevated view east over Crissy Field to Marina, Russian and Nob Hills, downtown.
Presidio
View from Telegraph Hill
View southwest to Nob Hill over North Beach. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brocklebank, Park Lane and Cathedral Apartments, Grace Cathedral. In center distance, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928. 11-story building at 1190 Sacramento St. in front of Grace Cathedral completed in 1958. Lyon Van & Storage Co. with large Lyon sign on roof on Stockton, near Green. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church, Broadway and Mason, at center right, Russian Hill at right.
Telegraph Hill
Twin Peaks looking east
Market Street/ Russ Building/City Hall/U.S. Mint/Bay Bridge
Downtown
View from Buena Vista Park
View east from Buena Vista Park to Civic Center, Downtown, Bay Bridge and East Bay hills. S-P sign atop Southern Pacific Building was installed March 1954 and removed in September 1961.
Downtown
Yerba Buena Island
looking west to Bay Bridge/ SF Skyline/ '55 Chevy
SF Bay
View from Coit Tower
looking south to the Financial District, the Equitable Life Bldg. doesn't have the digital clock/thermometer at the top (added in early 1957); and the new Union 76 tower looks completed (late summer 1955).
Telegraph Hill
View of Downtown
View northeast from the St. Francis Hotel Tower, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Transamerica Tower.
Downtown
View NE from Russian Hill
Probably from Ina Coolbrith Park at Taylor and Vallejo. Coit Tower. Yerba Buena Island at right, Treasure Island at left
Russian Hill