Market near Spear
Looking towards Ferry Building. Southern Pacific Building at right
Financial DistrictStreet
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Market & Grant
Market at O'Farrell & Grant. Busy street scene, looking north on Grant. On right Union Trust (Wells Fargo) building, old I. Magnin building, H. Liebes, White House department store. Geary line streetcar in background
Downtown / Union Square
Pacific near Columbus
Barbary Coast, view east from center of Pacific towards the bay. Following the end of Prohibition and the resumption of alcohol sales. Spider Kelly's saloon and dance hall with poster for Texas Tommy dance with Lois Feeley; Lindy Hotel 578 Pacific, Hippodrome Theater 560 Pacific. North End Auto Repair 540 Pacific.
North Beach
Alemany & San Bruno Ave
View southeast, (Alemany Interchange freeways will later cross background) to cars and approaching streetcar Market Street Railway H-Line streetcar with zip stripe livery.
Bernal Heights
Van Ness & Geary
View northeast across intersection to two D-Line streetcars, one with wings livery, Concordia Club at center left. Corner building, 1100 Van Ness Ave., originally built 1912-13 as a car showroom for Duryea and Maxwell autos, demolished 2015.
Lower Nob Hill
O'Shaughnessy Blvd
Looking north to Portola, nearing completion (inscription written on emulsion side of negative comes out backwards)
Glen Park
Valencia & Market
Elevated view south to traffic tie up around Hub Building Collapse. McRoskey Mattress Co. and Hotel Fallon (1693 Market) and Salvation Army building beyond.
South of Market
Powell near California
View south down Powell to cable car descending hill between California and Pine. Sir Francis Drake Hotel at left center. Back of 450 Sutter building at upper left.
Nob Hill
Market & California
View west up California Street from across Market. Fife Building at center, Santa Marina Building at right. Weinstein Co.
Financial District
Bay & Taylor
Cable Car Turntable at Bay and Taylor Line Car #518
North Beach
Mason near California
Woman standing on Mason Street sidewalk. View south between California and Pine.
Nob Hill
Kearny St Looking North
Looking North Bank of America Bldg.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Taylor
View northwest across Market to Golden Gate Theater, with Alexis Smith in 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas' playing.
Tenderloin
Cushman near Sacramento
View north toward Sacramento Street. The brown house on the corner of Sacramento St. and Sproule Lane is the Sproule Mansion (1907-1967), built for George Whittell and sold in 1917 to William Sproule (1858-1935), president of Wells Fargo Express and the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Pacific-Union Club across the street. It was then extensively remodeled by Bliss & Saville architects. It was demolished in November, 1967 after an unsuccessful fight for its preservation. Park Lane Apartments (1925, Eugene Fritz, Jr. architect) at upper right.
Nob Hill
Noe near 17th St
View south on Noe to Dolores Heights.
Castro