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View east from below Powell to Bay Bridge and downtown. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building (later Ritz Carlton Hotel) center right. Tall building in center is Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969).
Nob Hill
View east to sunrise. Glen Park at left, Bernal Heights at right
Miraloma Park
View northeast over Noe Valley, Eureka Valley, Downtown, to Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island. Alvarado School, Castro Hill.
Upper Market
View northeast over Noe Valley, Eureka Valley, Downtown, to Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island. Alvarado School, Castro Hill.
Upper Market
View North from Presidio bluffs near Lincoln Blvd
Presidio
Two seated people take in view of Tennessee Hollow, eastward from Inspiration point.
Presidio
View towards Russian Hill, Alcatraz and Angel Island, Mt. Tamalpais and Marin County from Top of the Mark. Park Lane and Brocklebank Apartments in foreground.
Nob Hill
Elevated view northwest across California from near Leidesdorff to Hartford Insurance Building, 650 California, between Grant & Kearny. Wells Fargo Building on right.
Financial District
Northern waterfront viewed from boat on the bay. Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower at right center.
SF skyline viewed from bay, with Bay Bridge overhead. Sailboat
Russian Hill/Aquatic Park from SF Bay. Maritime Museum building at far right. Riverboat 'Fort Sutter' on the beach next to the rowing clubs at left. Entrepreneur Barney Gould purchased the old riverboat and brought it to Aquatic Park in February 1953 with hopes to convert it into a showboat. It was later moved to west end of beach where it burned on May 1, 1959.
View East to UC Medical Center, Muni Car #1, N Line #1138, AM General bus. Track construction with temporary crossover track.
Sunset Outer
View toward Coit Tower from (now) Ina Coolbrith Park. At left is 857 Green, the home of Governor and later U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson. He lived there from 1909, when it was built, most likely until 1927. It was torn down in 1961 to build the Royal Towers highrise. Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, and Garfield School at center.
Russian Hill
View west with Ferry Building and ferry slips in foreground. Southern Pacific, Standard Oil, St. Francis and Fairmont Hotel buildings. The Mark Hopkins Hotel is under construction. Russ Building (1927), Shell Building (1929) not there yet. Matson Building (1923), Pacific Telephone Building (1925) just built. Twin Peaks, Mt. Sutro, Golden Gate Park in distance. Heinz 57 sign, Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop. Mission St. at left.
Elevated view northwest from Kearny & Market. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brocklebank Apartments, Stanford Court Apartments (later hotel). Russian Hill in distance right. Original Federal Reserve Bank at center. Blurry.
Nob Hill