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View west on Geary from the terminal of the former Geary, Park, & Ocean Railroad. Cable car on turntable. Flannery Building (with Electra-Vita sign), Lotta's Fountain in background. In distance, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Bankers Investment Building under construction. This is one of the last days of cable operations on the line. The cable franchise expired in 1912 and was almost immediately converted to electric operation. United Railroads [U03276]
Downtown / Union Square
View west on Geary from the terminal of the former Geary, Park, & Ocean Railroad. Cable car on turntable. Flannery Building (with Electra-Vita sign), Lotta's Fountain in background. In distance, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Magee Building, Bankers Investment Building under construction. This is one of the last days of cable operations on the line. The cable franchise expired in 1912 and was almost immediately converted to electric operation. United Railroads United Railroads [U03277]
Downtown / Union Square
View west on Geary from the terminal of the former Geary, Park, & Ocean Railroad. Cable car on turntable. Flannery Building (with Electra-Vita sign, M.A. Gunst store), Lotta's Fountain in background. In distance, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Bankers Investment Building under construction. This is one of the last days of cable operations on the line. The cable franchise expired in 1912 and was almost immediately converted to electric operation. United Railroads. United Railroads [U03278]
Downtown / Union Square
View west on Geary from Stockton. St. Francis Hotel at right. the former Geary, Park, & Ocean Railroad. This is one of the last days of cable operations on former Geary, Park, & Ocean Railroad line. The cable franchise expired in 1912 and was almost immediately converted to electric operation. United Railroads [U03279]
Downtown / Union Square
View east across Ellis to St. Germain Restaurant on left. Under construction is the Cort Theatre (later named Curran, Century, Morosco and Capitol) which opened in Septmber, 1911. It was demolished in 1941. The four-story building to the right of the Cort Theater was built as the Harding Building in 1907, an office structure. It was listed as the Hotel Cort from 1915 to 1928, after which it was listed as the Germaine Hotel from 1931 to 1974. It was vacant in 1975 and demolished sometime after, one of the last SRO hotels east of Powell Street. Humboldt Bank Building (with 1915 sign for PPIE) in background across Market St. (PF) [Cort Theatre SF August 1911 Opened 2 September 1911 01]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northeast toward Post and Stockton. Dewey monument. Union Square Hotel. Byron Mauzy for Supervisor ad on building at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Looking east toward Market. de Young / Chronicle Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Magnin's at right.
Downtown / Union Square
View north on Grant. Cable car, horse drawn carriages, people walking, Zobel's Millinery Store, Union Trust Bank on right and Savings Union Bank on left
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Market to Call, Hearst Examiner, Monadnock Buildings, Palace Hotel. Sorensen's Jewelers.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view southeast across to south side of Market, Hearst Examiner building under construction, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, Call Building, V-Odeon Theatre 747 Market, Spreckels Market 755 Market. 5-line and 9-Line streetcars. [dpwbook2 dpw204]
Downtown / Union Square
Market and Geary looking east to new Palace Hotel
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Market to [Lincoln building 5th & Market dpwbook3 dpw539]
Downtown / Union Square
Geary W from Powell [dpwbook4 dpw609] St. Francis hotel at right
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Geary between Powell and Stockton. [dpwbook4 dpw610] Union Square at left. Wolfe & Hawley on NE corner of Geary & Stockton.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary E from Stockton [dpwbook4 dpw611] Palace Hotel in distance
Downtown / Union Square
View west from center of Geary toward Grant. [dpwbook5 dpw1317] Geary W. of 3rd St, looking west. Sing Fat Co. Branch, I. Magnin, N. Harband Trunk Co. Streetcars have replaced cable cars.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view from the St. Francis Hotel, north up Powell toward Nob Hill, Fairmont Hotel, Telegraph Hill. Intersection at bottom is Powell and Sutter. Part of a 4-part panorama.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view from the St. Francis Hotel, north toward Telegraph Hill, rebuilt Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street at center. Original (1909-14) Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building at background left on Stockton and California. Part of a 4-part panorama.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view from the St. Francis Hotel, East toward Yerba Buena Island. Intersection of Post and Stockton at bottom. Union Square Hotel, W & J Sloane, Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange, Ferry Building Part of a 4-part panorama.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view from the St. Francis Hotel, southeast to buildings on east side of Stockton across from Union Square. Whittell Building and Call Building at right, both still stand. Part of a 4-part panorama.
Downtown / Union Square