View from Telegraph Hill
View north over Embarcadero towards piers and Alcatraz, State Belt Railroad, box cars. At bottom center 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
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View north over Embarcadero towards piers and Alcatraz, State Belt Railroad, box cars. At bottom center 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
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View northwest over North Beach, Fisherman's Wharf, Fort Mason, Hyde St. Pier, Haslett Warehouse and Cannery buildings, Ghirardelli factory, Aquatic Park, gas works, gas storage tank (gasometer) at foot of Powell St. Mount Tamalpais and Marin Headlands in distance.
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View northeast towards Russian Hill. Man sitting on curved balustrade
Pacific Heights
View northeast across California between Stockton and Grant. At left, Sabin Pl. and 720 California St. building after 2 story addition, Old St Mary's Cathedral, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building (1954, demolished 1991), Fireman's Fund Building (built as Home Insurance Company Building 1951, demolished 1983). Southern Pacific Building with S-P sign atop (sign removed in September 1961) in distance at far right. Bay Bridge in background. Wells Fargo Headquarters Building at 464 California under construction in distance.
Chinatown
View east from Top of the Mark. Southern Pacific Building with S-P sign atop, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign, Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Russ Building, Standard Oil Building, Alexander Building, Metropolitan Life Building, Bay Bridge in background. The building under construction to the right of the Standard Oil Building is the Equitable Life Building, completed in June, 1955.
Nob Hill
From near Hester and Bayshore, Geneva Towers
Little Hollywood
From near Hester and Bayshore, San Bruno Mountain & Geneva Towers
Little Hollywood
View looking east over Embarcadero towards Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island
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View southwest over Chinatown and North Beach to Nob Hill, Mt. Sutro in background. In left and center distance, Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brocklebank, Park Lane and Cathedral Apartments, Grace Cathedral with one bell tower. Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church, Broadway and Mason, at center right, St. Francis of Assisi Church at bottom, center. [Meston's travels around the world]
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View looking north over Embarcadero towards Angel Island. [Meston's travels around the world]
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View looking East over Embarcadero towards Bay Bridge. Yerba Buena Island. [Meston's travels around the world]
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[Meston's travels around the world] Looking west up Greenwich
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Houses along Marine Boulevard viewed from yacht harbor. [Meston's travels around the world]
Marina
View straight up Market Street
Midtown Terrace
View north over Embarcadero towards piers and Alcatraz. Gas holding tank (gasometer) at foot of Powell at left. At right, 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
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