Market & Stockton
Vnew northeast across Market from near Stockton. Cable cars, horse drawn carriages. Old Phelan Building, Chronicle Building at center. [F45 SSS-053] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Market & 3rd
Elevated view looking south on 3rd Street from Market. Two electric streetcars in foreground. Nucleus Hotel at left, Call Building under construction at right. [F45 SSS-070] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Hibernia Bank
View northwest across Market to Jones & McAllister to Hibernia Bank, Albert Pissis architect. The building was extended westward with an addition in 1905. [Hibernia Bank B- 10] [F810 B-010] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
Pacific & Kearny
Barbary Coast, View northeast across intersection of Columbus, Kearny, and Pacific up Kearny toward Broadway. Parente Brothers Tavern, with stained glass signage on the corner awning for Wreden's Lager, Old Kirk Whiskies, North Star, and ads for Rainier Beer, shoe shine stand to left of doorway. 16-Line Streetcar in background left in front of New Broadway Hotel, having just turned from Broadway. A posed photo, proprietors standing in each business doorway. Most of the buildings in this view still stand in 2021. In doorway of Parente's are posters for a fight promoted by Louis Parente in Coffroth Daly City Arena, Ad Wolgast and Willie Hoppe, set for 9-22-16, but postponed and cancelled, because of weather and threat of legal prosecution. [BC-7][F810 BC-007] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)(AS)
North Beach
Newark Ferryboat
View northeast to Ferryboat Newark heading east to Oakland Mole past Yerba Buena Island. [F810 BO-032] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [B1744 San Francisco Bay View Oaklands Ferryboats and Goat Island BO-32]
Market & O'Farrell
Elevated view west to first Phelan Building. O'Farrell St. at right. [Phelan Building, Market & O'Farrell SF 1890 BU-20] [F810 BU-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Columbus & Kearny
View south to Sentinel Building, also called Columbus Tower. Calegaris Pharmacy, Caesar's Grill, United Cigar Co. 15-line streetcar #1734. [Abe Reueff (sic Ruef) Building, 1910 BU-23] [F810 BU-023] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
Howard near 3rd
Union Hall (S.C. Bugbee, architect) with sign 'It Shall Be Preserved' over entry. Omnibus Railway horse car #6 in front. Later the site of Morosco's Theater in the 1880's, which specialized in melodrama and cheap prices, according to Walter Morosco's 1901 obituary. The ground floor was used by the Omnibus Railroad as a horse car barn from 1862 until 1895. The building was destroyed by fire on May 2, 1898. [Omnibus R.R. Depot, South side Howard bet 3rd & 4th Morosco Theatre 1886 BU-41 Aug 6 1863] [F810 BU-041] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
Near Fourth & Townsend
Elevated view northwest across tracks to Southern Pacific Passenger Depot Building with W. W. Cole Circus advance train coach, locomotive and other rail cars. Sign for Potrero & Bay View Railroad Co. in back. Southern Pacific headquarters building in distance. [SP Depot 4th Townsend St 1890(inscription is incorrect, Cole's circus liquidated in November 1886)] [F810 BU-043] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Mission Bay
Fourth near Townsend
View northeast to Southern Pacific locomotive, Southern Pacific Headquarters , and horsecar on Townsend St. 4th story has been added to building.[1880 Fourth Townsend St. Central Pacific & Southern Pacific Bldg.] [F810 BU-044] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
Market & 3rd
View southeast across Market to Examiner Hearst building, decorated for return of California volunteers in Spanish-American War. "Welcome Home Californians" and insignia for battles of Paco and Guam. [Return of the Calif Boys 1899] [F810 CB-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Lands End Train
Narrow gauge railroad locomotive of Ferries & Cliff House Railroad, posed on tracks with three men, two in cab and one on cowcatcher. Taken near Dead Man's Point. [Cliff House Train SF 1890 CH-26] [F810 CH-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Fairmont Hotel
Nob Hill, Elevated view northwest across intersection of Powell and California, unrestored Flood Mansion (restored 1910 for Pacific-Union Club) at left background, 1906 ruins of Stanford Mansion at left. United Railroads Powell Street cable car
Nob Hill
Bush & Powell
View northeast across intersection past United Railroads cable car #513 on Washington-Jackson route in front of Kenilworth Apartments, built 1907, architects Sutton & Weeks. To its right, Beck Apartments, built 1909, architects Cunningham & Politeo. Both apartment buildings still stand in 2023. [The Kenilworth. N. E. Cor. Bush and Powell St.]
Downtown / Union Square
Berkeley, CA
View to northwest corner of Shattuck and University Avenues. Hotel California with corner spire and Johnson Grocery on ground floor. Japanese goods and Bakery on Shattuck side and New California Market on University Avenue. Streetcar #50. Building at left with Varsity Creamery Co. extant in 2018.
Outside SF