Contains 951 photos
View to Presidio, Palace of Fine Arts and Golden Gate Bridge. At left, Grace Cathedral under construction. Chambord Apartments. At right Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, Comstock Apartments built 1961, behind. At far left, 1200 California Street (architect Angus McSweeney, completed 1962).
Nob Hill
View over downtown to Yerba Buena Island and Bay Bridge, Embarcadero Freeway. 650 California (Hartford Building, completed 1964) under construction.
Nob Hill
View northwest to Presidio and Golden Gate Bridge. At left, Grace Cathedral under construction. Chambord Apartments. At right Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, Comstock Apartments built 1961, behind. At far right, 1170 Sacramento apartment building, completed 1963. Huntington Park and Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion) at bottom.
Nob Hill
View north to Russian Hill with apartment towers and Bay. Brocklebank Apartments and Alcatraz at right. Sproule mansion at lower left. Park Lane Apartments at center. Washington Mason Cable Car Power House between apartment buildings at left. At far left, 1170 Sacramento St., built 1963.
Nob Hill
View southeast from Top of the Mark to Financial District and Bay Bridge. Russ, Alexander, Standard Oil, Equitable (completed 1955), Hunter-Dulin, Crocker Bank and Crocker Buildings. At right, White House department store, Sutter-Stockton Parking Garae, Chronicle Building with modern cladding (later removed), Pacific Telephone Building. In distance, Union 76 clock tower. At far left, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building.
Nob Hill
View northwest to Russian Hill, Marina, Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands.
Russian Hill
Aerial view from blimp looking north to Financial District from south of the Bay Bridge
Aerial view from blimp looking northwest with Financial District and Bay Bridge
Skyline with Bay Bridge in foreground
View south from Russian Hill to Nob Hill & Financial District. Taylor Street at right. On Nob Hill, Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels, Brocklebank and Park Lane Apartments, Sproule Mansion, Huntington Hotel, Grace Cathedral upper right. Downtown buildings at upper left include Russ Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, Pacific Telephone Building, Central Tower (former Call Building). Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church, Broadway near Mason, at lower left.
Russian Hill
View south down Montgomery before paving, concrete wall and stairway construction [Montgomery southerly from a point between Union and Green dpwbook48 dpw10433]. Standard Oil Building, Merchants Exchange, Call Building in background.
Telegraph Hill
View southwest toward Noe Valley. St. Paul's Church in background [Aztec from Summit to Twin Peaks dpwbookSPECIMP16 dpwA1472]
Bernal Heights
View south on Bradford [Bernal south from Bradford dpwbookSPECIMP16 dpwA2868]
Bernal Heights
View south on Florence to steps down to Broadway. Nob Hill, Huntington Hotel, background left[70 Florence St dpwbook42 dpwA1269]
Russian Hill
Elevated view north of Financial District from Nob Hill: Russ Building on right, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building at left, rear of Hotel Grant at lower left
Lower Nob Hill