Stockton & Post
View southwest on Stockton from Post, I. Magnin Department Store (former Butler Building) at center, Macy's, Blums, Union Square at right. Old Crow billboard with electric clock.
Downtown / Union SquareStores
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Maiden Lane
View east from near Stockton. At the end of the street you can see the Metropolis Bank building (1908). V.C. Morris Store (Frank Lloyd Wright, architect) at left. Union Square Cocktails, Junipero Serra Shop.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & 6th
View southeast across Market to David Hewes Building (with modern cladding on outside installed 1963-1964)), National Shirt Shops, Kress, Humboldt Bank Building. Greyhound Bus crossing Market.
Tenderloin
Broad near Plymouth
View southeast across Broad St. to M-Line Magic Carpet streetcar #1001 with wings livery on BAERA (Bay Area Electric Rail Association) charter. Columbus Liquors & Variety Store at right. Buildings in photo still stand in 2023.
Oceanview
Mason near Market
Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad, Fairmont Hotel in distance. The date range for this photo is the production of Florodora, which played for the first time in SF at the Tivoli, from April 9, 1905 through May 7, 1905, and did not have a follow up run before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Metropole lodging house is on the left of the photo. The Hotel Inverness was completed in early 1904. Pacific Shirt Co., Drs. Kergan & Kergan Electric Sanitarium, J.J. Gildea Outfitters, Cohn Bros. Jewelers, The Diamond House, 1034 Market.[No. 15. Mason St. north from Market]
Tenderloin
Lick House
Elevated view northwest across Montgomery between Sutter and Post Sts. L to R: Masonic Temple, Kerby, Byrne & Co., Meagher Taaffe & Co., N Skerrett, J.W. Davidson & Co.[143. The Lick House - from the corner of Market and Montgomery streets.]
Financial District
Kearny & Geary
[108 Corner of Kearny and Geary Streets] Northwest view from Market street. Temple Emanu-el and Nob Hill in distance. Lotta's Fountain absent, Dentist Mark Libbey's advertisement with portrait on roof, horsecar line tracks. The entrance to St. Mark's Place (renamed Morton Street in 1869, the same year brothels began colonizing the alley) is visible just off Kearny Street on the right of the photograph.
Downtown / Union Square
California & Montgomery
Elevated view southeast to south side of California. The second Merchants' Exchange building (completed July, 1867), Alameda Real Estate Agency, Bowen Bros.[208. South side of California Street, from Montgomery, looking east - Merchants' Exchange]
Financial District
Grant near Pine
Postcard view north on Grant from Pine. Shanghai Low restaurant at right. New Grant Hotel, Hotel Yamato, Sing Chong Co. Far East Cafe and Hang Far Low noodles in distance. [San Francisco's famous Chinatown, the largest outside China itself.] [Zan 1701]
Chinatown
West Portal & Ulloa
View southwest on West Portal Avenue to Municipal Railway (Muni) K-Line #1116 approaching the tunnel, stopped in the intersection. Eezy Freezy Market, Rive Gauche restaurant, Red Carpet Realtors, Empire Theater. West Portal Market, San Carlos Liquor, Eugenia's Hairstylist.
West Portal
Union Square
View east along walkway with benches and people, toward Stockton St. Whittell Building, City of Paris and I. Magnin. Howard Building, Pan-Am Airlines, Wooster Opticians, Qantas billboard with electric clock.
Downtown / Union Square
California & Drumm
Looking west down California towards Nob Hill. Mark Hopkins Hotel in distance.
Financial District
Grant & Clay
View northeast along Grant. Empress Jewelry sign at left.
Chinatown
Grant near California
View norts from between California and Sacramento on Grant. Lanterns strung along street and across at intersections. Shangri-La Art Goods, United Dept. Store, Eastern Bakery, Republic Hotel, Chinese Village liquors, Kan's Restaurant, Kuo Wah Co., Lotus Bowl Chinese Food, Canton Bazaar
Chinatown
Pine & Grant
Chinatown, view north from center of Grant Ave. Chinese Lily Jewelry Art Goods, Lamps of China, Shanghai Low restaurant, Tai Chong & Co. Lanterns strung across and along street.
Chinatown