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Taken between Mason and Powell Streets, looking east. Fairmont Hotel at left, Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel) at right. Nob Hill Theatre, Cirque Room. International Building (601 California) in distance, center.
Nob Hill
Subdivision under construction, south San Francisco, early 1950s. View from Junipero Serra Boulevard above Granada Drive.
Outside SF
View looking south from Portola Drive near O'Shaughnessy (car on right side). Golf driving range on McAteer High School/Ruth Asawa School of the Arts school site. Church at 480 Teresita Drive in Miraloma Park is prominent on horizon, built 1951. Row of houses on frontage road on O'Shaughnessy is partially finished - house in progress visible closest to car has completion date of 1952.
Midtown Terrace
View looking northwest on Santa Rosa Ave near Alemany Blvd. Intersection with Cayuga Ave at bottom of hill. View of Mt Davidson. Westwood Highlands under construction just below.
Mission Terrace
Looking west over South of Market and Civic Center to Fillmore District, Golden Gate Park, Presidio, Pacific Ocean, US Steel Plant, Central Freeway extending to Jefferson Square. Beginning of Fillmore demolition for 'urban renewal project' visible.
Mission
Bay Bridge and Mission Bay Railroad yards.. View from near 20th Street and De Haro.
Potrero Hill
Looking southeast from Fairmont Hotel over financial district
Nob Hill
View east from Mason St, Fairmont Hotel on right, Brocklebank Apartments on left. Bay Bridge in background.
Nob Hill
Looking East toward Bay Bridge, International Building (601 California) at right. Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (later Ritz Carlton) at right.
Nob Hill
View north towards Bay, Alcatraz and Angel Island. Columbus monument not yet installed, will arrive in 1957. Also called Pioneer Park. At center, top of 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
Telegraph Hill
View north from a Boat in the Bay. Alcatraz still open as a prison. Angel Island in background.
SF Bay
View east at California and Powell to California St. Cable Car loading passengers. At left is the University Club, in background the Hartford Building at 650 California. Completed in 1964, it was the tallest building in California at the time. Bay Bridge, International Building in background.
Nob Hill
View Southwest toward Nob Hill, Fairmont Tower addition under construction at center.
Telegraph Hill
Near Lawton & 15th. Looking to the Northeast from that location. St. Ignatius Church, UCSF, Columbus school (called that at that time).
Golden Gate Heights
View south from Sutro Heights looking down the length of Ocean Beach. Original Ocean Beach Pavilion as 'Surf Club' at left. Great Highway, Playland at the Beach, Golden Gate Park, Esplanade, Lurline Pier. (Ocean Beach Pavilion, built in 1884, was oldest building that part of Great Highway. It had been remodeled many times.)
Sutro Heights