Embarcadero & Folsom
View West on Folsom from The Embarcadero
Financial DistrictUnbuilt
Contains 4015 photos
Downtown
Pine Street, near Grant, looking east. St. Mary's Square, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Russ Building. Matson, PG&E Buildings in distance. Buildings on north side of Pine beyond St. Mary's Square Garage (completed 1954) to 315 Montgomery have been demolished.
Chinatown
Candlestick Park
Inside Stadium toward Bay and Parking Lot, Hunters Point
Candlestick Point
View W from City College
View from City College to West Campus. Navy wartime buildings used by CCSF, 1945-55, on Balboa Reservoir site. Riordan High School and Westwood Park in background.
Sunnyside
View from Twin Peaks
Looking south. Diamond Heights Construction
Clarendon Heights
View Toward Noe Valley
North from Gold Mine Hill, prior to Diamond Heights development. The unpaved intersection is Douglass and Valley Streets. The red-roofed house with a separate garage still stands, now 70 Gold Mine.
Noe Valley
South San Francisco
View northerly across Colma Creek toward San Bruno Mountain, Sign Hill. PG&E power lines
Outside SF
View NE from Russ Building
Taken from roof garden of Russ Building toward Golden Gateway Construction and bay. Cupola of Commercial Union Assurance Bldg (315 Montgomery), Assessor's Building at left. Embarcadero Freeway, Treasure Island in background.
Financial District
Golden Gateway
Construction. View northeast from roof garden of Russ Building. Old Federal Reserve Bank at left. Embarcadero Freeway along waterfront, Treasure Island in background
Financial District
31st Ave & Judah
View southeast. Opening of the Sunset Tunnel and Muni N-Judah line. Bunting, '1' sign, and 'Old Timer's Car' banner decorate streetcar stopped on Judah. This was the lead car in the parade, with Mayor James Rolph as its motorman, headed to the inaugural ceremonies at the western terminus of the new line. Automobiles line the street surrounding it. People standing in street and on sandy hillside. Homes on 30th Avenue in left background, side of a home on 31st Avenue in right background. See also wnp27.0493
Sunset Outer
Haight & Stanyan
View west on Haight between Shrader and Stanyan, at Haight Street Car House, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 17-line streetcar #173. Golden Gate Park in background.
Haight Ashbury
Alemany & San Bruno Ave
View southeast, (Alemany Interchange freeways will later cross background) to cars and approaching streetcar Market Street Railway H-Line streetcar with zip stripe livery.
Bernal Heights
Bryant & Division
Construction of Rainier Brewery, Fire Department training tower site, Central Freeway later constructed across this view.
Mission
Niagara Ave
View north to Southern Pacific tracks passing Market Street Railway's Elkton Shops.
Cayuga
48th Ave near Geary
Municipal Railway (MUNI) Demonstration Bus parked on 48th Ave, with Sutro Heights in background. Taken from site of present Seal Rock Inn.
Sutro Heights