Contains 422 photos
Elevated view southeast with Piers 44 and 46 in distance (occupied by South Beach Harbor in 2021). SS President Hoover. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 29-line #952 passing. Empty lots now site of AT&T (later Oracle) Ballpark. California Cotton Mills Co., State Cold Storage Plant.
Mission Bay
View north to Market Street. Canopy Fountain Lunch restaurant, Swiss watches, people passing. All buildings on the east side of 2nd Street have since been demolished, except for the building on the right, Wells Fargo Express/ Railway Express Building. Hobart Building, Balboa Building in distance. 1958 Ford waiting at intersection.
South of Market
View north past elegant lamp posts. Sir Francis Drake Hotel with sign for Starlite Roof bar. Roos Atkins in Fitzhugh Building.
Downtown / Union Square
North side of Market St. Dr. Brady Dentist, Pix, Esquire and Telenews Theatres, Howard's Clothing, Boyd's Mens Store. Present-day site of Hallidie Plaza. Bank of America (One Powell) and Flood Building in background. [JT09 Esquire Telenews & Pix August 1967]
South of Market
View northeast across Mission to American Trust Co. bank, City Roofing & Paint, Shanghai Herb Co. Market Street Railway 9-line streetcar #1575. [New Bell Theatre (Sic) now American Trust Company 29th & Mission SF 1939]
Bernal Heights
View northeast across Castro to Market Street Railway (MSRY) 8-line streetcar #153. Annette's, Herndon's Market grocery on east side of block. [0153-08-A SB ON CASTRO AT 18TH ca 1940]
Castro
View southwest across South Van Ness to Market St. Railway (MSRy) 35-line streetcar #406 crossing Southern Pacific tracks. [0406-35-01 NB on South Van Ness North of 24th Street SP Xing ca 1937]
Mission
View south on Castro toward 18th, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 8-Line streetcar #207, Castro Line cable car at terminus. On left Pauls, Prudence Penny grocery, Castro Bakery, on right Palace Soda Fountain, Ramsay's Drugs, Wulzen's Drugs, Star Pharmacy. View south on Castro toward 18th, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 8-Line streetcar #207, Castro Line cable car at terminus. On left Pauls, Prudence Penny grocery, Castro Bakery, on right Palace Soda Fountain, Ramsay's Drugs, Wulzen's Drugs, Star Pharmacy. Same image as wnp27.2735, 67.0239. [0207-08-01 NB on Castro North of 18th Street 1941]
Castro
Larkin Street facade of old Main Library at Civic Center. Now the Asian Art Museum. [Old Main Library]
Civic Center
View of the northwest corner of Sutter & Lyon. Market Street Railway 2-line streetcar #255 collision with garbage truck. Majestic Cleaners. [0255-02-01 EB on Sutter at Lyon 1935 Accident]
Lower Pacific Heights
View northeast to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 19-line Streetcar #906. Chase Hotel (Philipp Schwerdt, architect, built 1907) behind streetcar. Birdcage traffic signal. [0906-19-02 Hayes and Larkin ca 1943]
Civic Center
View east on Broadway from Turk Murphy Alley toward Stockton. Bay Bridge in background. De France Restaurant at left.
North Beach
View east from center of California St. at Powell. Bay Bridge in background. Hartford Building at 650 California, built 1963-64, in background. International Building , Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (later Cogswell College and Ritz-Carlton Hotel), Rolls Garage and Mohawk Gasoline at right.
Nob Hill
Large truck advertising the movie 'Johnny Got His Gun' with a picture of Jimmy Carter, political motivation?
Mission
View northeast across California Street between Grant and Kearny to cable car #2., behind is the north side of the street where almost all buildings were demolished. Stauffer Chemical Company building before later facade replacement (later site of Hartford Building at 650 California, Squire Hotel, States Hotel, Financial Center Building (1927) at center, later Omni Hotel. At far right, Clunie Building with Lincoln National Insurance ad on west wall. In distance, Southern Pacific Building and Bay Bridge.
Chinatown