Contains 422 photos
SF Golden Gateway Project. View northeast across intersection to demolition of Produce District. Large painted sign with pastoral scene for John DeMartini Co. 170 Washington St. and Sunkist. Scatena Galli Fruit Co., 104 Washington in distance right. Embarcadero Freeway at far right.
Northern Waterfront
Bayshore Highway, South San Francisco. Old Western Pipe and Steel WWII shipyard
Outside SF
View west down 24th street at Church, Twin Peaks in the background, 11-line streetcar #805
Dolores Heights
View northwest across Washington & Drumm intersection to old Produce Market district, demolished for Golden Gateway project. Scatena Galli Fruit Co., 104 Washington at right. In distance, John Demartini Co., Levy & Zentner, Appraisers Building.
Financial District
view west to C. W. Smith Copper Works 16 Washington, Jacobs Malcom & Burtt, Appraisers Building in distance. U.S. Mail truck at left.
Northern Waterfront
View north to Market, Bush and Battery intersection, Crown Zellerbach building, Shell Building in background. Foster's Cafeteria.
South of Market
Sand quarry. Promotional picture for Atlas Mortar Company. Ewing Field in background.
Lone Mountain
View east toward Bay Bridge. Old St. Mary's cathedral and rectory, Stauffer Chemical Co. building, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building (1954) under construction, Home Insurance Co. Building (1951, later Fireman's Fund, demolished 1983). At right, St. Mary's Square Park and Parking Garage (1954) House of Lee, Yamato Sukiyaki in Sun Fat Building. Southern Pacific Building with large S-P sign on top in center distance, installed March, 1954.
Chinatown
View southeast across intersection to Union Square, I. Magnin & Co., Macy's, Dohrmann's, George S. May, Western Airlines on Geary. Cable Car #509. Very large Union Pacific Railroad Billboard, Old Crow Billboard. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across Powell to Cable Car #504, Marlow Hotel, Hotel Stratford, Fitzhugh Building, and Omar Khayyam's restaurant.
Downtown / Union Square
Chinatown. View north on Grant Ave toward intersection with Sacramento St. Neon signs advertising Hang Far Low restaurant, 'The Chop Stick' restaurant at 747 Grant, Western Union Office, Kimonos and Tai Ping Chop Suey.
Chinatown
Chinatown, view looking southwest along Grant Ave from Jackson St, showing storefronts on west side of Grant., Imperial Palace Restaurant at 919 Grant.
Chinatown
View northeast across market to Shopper Shuttle #0333 bus. Foggy or smoky conditions.
South of Market
View northwest across Market to Municipal Railway (Muni) B-line Streetcar #125 with wings livery. Chronicle Building with Florsheim Shoes and Peck-Judah, 660 Market, See's candies in background. The B and C cars ended service on December 29, 1956.
South of Market
Hazy view north across Market Street toward Kearny. Chronicle / de Young Building with Security Finance Co., W & H Cigars and Liquors, Top Hat bar. Lotta's Fountain. Maskey Building (1908) in left background was demolished in 1983 for San Francisco Federal Savings & Loan highrise project, but 4 of the 6 bays on the facade were moved, as part of the project, 2 doors east, next to the Chronicle Annex, and now face Maiden Lane. Municipal Railway (Muni) B-Line Streetcar (The B and C cars ended service on December 29, 1956). At left, signs on Flannery Building for Dr. Alexander Dentist, The Stag Bar. Birdcage traffic signals.
South of Market