Powell & California
Cable Cars at the crest of a hill on Powell street.
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Market near 3rd
Elevated view west toward Phelan and Bankers Investment Buildings, Mutual Savings Bank and Flannery Buildings. Eagelsons, Jarman, Lundstrom Hats, Prices, Bank of America, Citizens Federal Savings, Dinty's Kitchen, The Stag bar, dentist offices. H. Liebes, Santa Fe Railroad sign, Whittell Building, St. Francis Hotel on Geary Street at right. Muni C-Line #198, Bus #0124, Birdcage traffic signals, Lotta's Fountain at lower right. Taken with wnp100.00663. [Geary St. at Market St.]
South of Market
Market near 3rd
Elevated view west up Geary Street from upper floor of building toward Mutual Savings Bank and Flannery (with The Stag bar, Dinty's Kithen, dentist offices) Buildings. Whittell Building in distance, center, and Chronicle Building at right. H. Liebes, Whittell Building, Granville's jewelers with 10:35 on clock, Mell's Broiled Hamburgers, Foster's cafeteria, H. Liebes, M. Dunn & Co. furs, Keifer's Shoe Repair, California Savings, Hotel Graystone, Santa Fe Railroad sign, Muni C-Line #198 on Geary Street. Dr. Willett Chiropractor, W and H Liquors, Security Finance signs on Chronicle Building. Taken about the same time as wnp100.00662. [Geary St. at Market St.]
South of Market
3rd & Market
Elevated view northeast to the Chronicle Building at the corner of Market, Kearny and Geary showing Lotta's Fountain, Nucleus Hotel, tower of Masonic Temple. Crocker Building (1891) not yet built. 700 Market building at left, California Hotel and Theatre (1889) in distance beyond. [344 The Chronicle][McDonald- Corner of Market-Kearny-Post]
South of Market
California near Kearny
View east down California to Cable car approaching. On left, San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett, architect), German Savings and Loan Society, Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Kohl Building. On right, Safe Deposit Building with tower, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York Building beyond. Clearer version with different cropping at wnp37.02807. [California St. July 3, 1905 SS-12] [F810 SS-012] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Grant & Market
View north. Many horsecars, including #12 marked for Oakland Ferry. [141 Grant Avenue San Francisco Cal 1880 SS-35] [F810 SS-035] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Grant & Market
Elevated view north on Grant Avenue (formerly Dupont St). Horsecars (including #13 marked for Oakland Ferry), delivery wagons. [Grant Ave North from Market St 1894 SS-37] [F810 SS-037] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Broadway
View south on Kearny St. to busy street scene with horsecars and pedestrians. Old St. Mary's Church steeple in distance right. Same image as wnp37.00809, different cropping. [Kearny St South from Broadway St 1870 SS-45] [F810 SS-045] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
Market & Stockton
View east toward Call Building. Midway Plaisance 'Big Show Burlesque', Sanborn Vail & Co. Dixon's Hatter & Furnisher, Call Buildng, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Lion Drug Co. listed in City Directories 1901-1904. Clearer original image at wnp24.349a. [SS-64 Market St. East 4th St. 1898.] [F810 SS-064] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Mason
View East on Market from Mason. Pacific Shirt Co., towers of St. Ann's Building, Baldwin Hotel (destroyed November 1898) at left, Clock tower of Chronicle Building in the distance. Castro Street cable car #104 at center. Same image as wnp37.02723. [Market St., East Mason St.] [F810 SS-078] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
Market & Mason
View east from the sidewalk on Market Street toward Mason. Pacific Shirt Co., Admission Day Native Sons Monument at left, 'Socialist Labor Party' banner across the street, R.P. Doolan for Supt. of Streets (and many more political banners. Banners), Baldwin Hotel (at Powell, destroyed November 1898) and Call Building in the distance (completed 1898) date this to Fall 1898. [F810 SS-080] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
Market & 2nd
Elevated view south down 2nd Street. Electric streetcar. The Hoffman Restaurant, Grand Hotel on right, Stein Simon & Co. in Cunningham Block on left. Same source image as wnp37.02202. [Second-Market 1905 SS-172] [F810 SS-172] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
California & Montgomery
View west across Montgomery to Omnibus Railway Co. horsecar #11 passing. Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams) in background with Equitable Life 405 Montgomery. Men talking and walking, with man in traditional Chinese dress at right. Dr. William F. McNutt 405 Montgomery. Telegraph or telephone poles with 8 crossbars.[STC-4 N.W. Cor Calif-Montgy St] [F810 STC-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
California near Stockton
View east to Bay Bridge in distance. California Street cable car, Grant Street pagoda towers, House of Lee, Cathay House, Clunie Building with Lincoln National Life ad on west side, Hotel Yolanda with Hotel Lafayette painted sign., Helvetia Hotel, Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery). In distance, Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop. [5-48 11050]
Chinatown
Haight & Clayton
View west at police car stopped for traffic accident. Drug store, The Venice Italian restaurant, Grand Ice Cream, Haight Theatre and Golden Gate Park in distance.
Haight Ashbury