Powell near Post
View northwest across Powell to Municipal Railway (Muni) Powell & Mason Cable Car #504. St. Francis hotel at left. United Airlines. Car is still painted with pre-merger Market Street Railway (MSRy) shield.
Downtown / Union SquareTaxi
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Montgomery & Post
Elevated view northeast from Palace Hotel to Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Company Building, Standard Oil Building, Hobart Building, Shell Building at right. Crocker Building at far left. Birdcage traffic signals.
Financial District
Powell near Geary
View southwest from Union Square to Elkan Gunst Building (with Air France signage and billboard on roof) with Milton F. Kries restaurant and cosmetics, Techau Tavern. Manx Hotel, Crane Hotel. The Elkan Gunst Building was completed in 1907 by cigar dealer, champagne wholesaler, and former police commissioner Moses A. Gunst, and named after his son. The Hotel Crane was built in 1909 as the Goodfriend Hotel. The Manx Hotel was built by George D. Toy, completed and opened Oct. 1, 1908. Toy grew up in a house on this lot after Daniel Toy, their father, moved the family there in the early 1850s when the area was still known as St. Ann's Valley.(PF) At far right 333 Geary Building (former St. Francis Theater, later Lefty O'Doul's) with Gene Compton's Restaurant. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
3rd & Townsend
Elevated view southwest across intersection to Southern Pacific railroad station and Lefty O'Doul Bridge, China Basin Building in distance. Pier 1697 bar and restaurant, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 15-line streetcar #811.
South Beach
Powell near Post
View southeast to Muni Powell & Mason Line cable car on Powell Street in front of St. Francis Hotel. Dewey Monument at upper left. I. Magnin and Dohrmann's stores in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 8th
View east. Orpheum Theatre on left and Embassy, United Artists and Strand Theaters on right. Grant, David Hewes and Odd Fellows Buildings. Sign for Del Webb's TowneHouse hotel to open in early 1961 at construction site on southeast corner.
Civic Center
Polk near California
View northwest across Polk to Royal Theatre, west side of Polk between California and Sacramento. Swan Oyster Depot, See's Candies, Citizens Savings [RS1217 Royal Theatre May 1975]
Polk Gulch
Powell Near Sutter
View northeast across Powell to Muni Cable car #519 on the Powell-Hyde line passing the Sir Francis Drake Hotel at right. Cable car built in 1894 for the Midwinter Fair. Parsons Optical, San Francisco State College Extension in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Civic Center
View east from Hyde and Fulton. Auto entrance to Brooks Hall at current site of main library. People in business attire. City Hall. United Service Organization (USO) Hospitality House (later San Francisco City offices) at left. Yellow cab.
Civic Center
California & Hyde
View east from center of California below Hyde, 2 cable cars (California to Van Ness service started in May, 1954) passing each other just west of Hyde Street.Cal-Hyde Market, Eppler's Bakery, Conradi's Drugs. [5871]
Nob Hill
3rd & King
View northwest to Southern Pacific Passenger Depot.[Southern Pacific Depot, Third & Townsend Sts., San Francisco Zan 1064]
South Beach
Market & McAllister
View south across Market from Jones and McAllister. Studio Theatre (later the Guild, formerly the Egyptian), Roundup Theatre and United Artists Theatre. Street decorated for Shrine Convention. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) M-line streetcar #139
Tenderloin
Jones & McAllister
View north on Jones from McAllister. Hotel Boyd, Hotel Governor, and Anglo Bank at right. Pedestrians crossing intersection. Cal Street Cable Railroad Cable Car #60 (Jones Street Shuttle), Harrington's Bar. Birdcage traffic signal. Side/Rear of the Paramount Theatre (entry at 1066 Market, demolished 1965) in background.
Tenderloin
Stockton near Sutter
View north on Stockton from Grant toward Stockton Tunnel. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) F-line Streetcar #10. Hotel Navarre and Hotel Victoria, built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel), Farra's Beauty Shop. Dalma Garage (later Sutter-Stockton Garage) at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Grant near Geary
View southeast across Grant past sidewalk flower stand with corrugated fiberglass roof on Grant between Geary and O'Farrell. Grant Avenue entrance of H. Liebes store (77 Geary, 90 Grant) and Wells Fargo Bank in background. .
Downtown / Union Square