Top of the Mark
View north to Park Lane Apartments, Brocklebank Apartments, Alcatraz, Angel Island, Russian Hill. Gas storage tank at foot of Powell Street.
DowntownWaterfront
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Hyde & Chestnut
O'Farrell-Jones-Hyde St. Cable Car. Hyde Street Pier ferry slip at foot of street. Alcatraz and Angel Island in distance. Humphrey's Castle (1852-1949), early mansion with crenellated roofline, at right.
Russian Hill
Waterfront From Bay
View west to San Francisco from Ferry Boat, with Ferry Building at right. Six Ferry Boats in view. 57 Sign. Chevrolet sign above Fife Building.
Downtown
YMCA Hotel on Embarcadero
Under construction, opened in 1926 as an Army/Navy YMCA for soldiers returning from war; View west across the Embarcadero from the piers at Howard St. Building with Bromo Seltzer sign on roof. [YMCA]
Financial District
Ferry Building Loop
Elevated view south from pedestrian overpass steps on Embarcadero to traffic at Ferry Building Loop. State Agriculture Building in center distance.
Financial District
Fisherman's Wharf
View east to fishing boat lagoon and gas tank (gasometer), Fishermen's Grotto, Alioto's
Spear & Embarcadero
View north on Spear to Bay Bridge above, empty streets, Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill in distance. At right Joseph Magnin Warehouse (1918, George Applegarth architect).
Rincon Hill
Embarcadero & Howard
View south. Bay Bridge in background, Seaboard Hotel with giant Sherwin-Williams electric billboard sign on top.
Financial District
Fisherman's Wharf
Taylor & Jefferson Streets, view northwest across intersection to Tarantino's,, Cresci Bros., Sabella-Latorre's, Lighthouse Fish Grotto and Alioto's restaurants, Excelsior Fish Market
Fishermans Wharf
Embarcadero & Howard
Looking West up Howard, Folger's Coffee, Hotel Admiral, Sailor Boy Bar, Peterson's Barber Shop, Pacific Telephone Building in distance.
South of Market
View from Southern Pacific Bldg
Elevated view southeast, new annex at Steuart and Mission, over large parking lot toward Bay Bridge, Railway Express Agency pier, Harbor Hotel, Embarcadero, YMCA. Ferry Hotel, Audiffred Building (with Mail Box Grill and large replica mailbox sign and clock hanging above corner entrance, Rincon Annex Post Office, Texaco service station at Steuart and Mission intersection. At far left, state agriculture building, 58 Club.
Financial District
Skyline from the Bay
View northwest approaching Pier 22 and Bay Bridge. Taken from bridge of outbound ship. The Embarcadero Freeway looks completed (May, 1959); and the old S-P sign (center right edge of image) on the Southern Pacific Building is still there (removed, Sept. 1961).
SF Bay
View from Top of the Mark
View north to Alcatraz and Angel Island. Park Lane Apartments, Washington-Mason Car House (cable car barn and powerhouse), Brocklebank Apartments, roof of Fairmont Hotel in foreground. Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church and Washington Square at right. Russian Hill at left.
Nob Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
View southeast over apartment buildings toward Embarcadero & Bay Bridge on a foggy day. Yerba Buena Island at left.
Telegraph Hill
Embarcadero near Howard
YMCA. Coit Tower in background.
Financial District