Contains 2840 photos
Broadway,Van Ness, Eddy, Grant/Kearny Union Square, Portsmouth Square, Chinatown, St. Mary's Square (Section 053 of 190 - 1948 Aerial Survey of San Francisco) (A larger version of this image has been provided to and can be seen at the David Rumsey Map Collection)
Nob Hill
City Hall, Tenderloin, Union Square (Section 054 of 190 - 1948 Aerial Survey of San Francisco) (A larger version of this image has been provided to and can be seen at the David Rumsey Map Collection)
South of Market
East across Union Square toward Stockton Street, pink flowers, people, Dewey Monument (post parking garage) Hotel Plaza and Fred Benioff department store.
Downtown / Union Square
View west across Market toward Turk St. Dewey Warren Headquarters, Doctor H.H. Brady Dentist, Alice Wonder Hamburger, and billboard for Rainer Beer. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) PCC #1008, Market Street. Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument before 1948 move to Golden Gate Park.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell St. cable car #511 passing The Family Club. View looking west from Anson Place alley.
Downtown / Union Square
View west on Sutter between Stockton and Powell, Muni 2-Line, #412. (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #112 renumbered #412 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #112.)
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast to terminus of California Street Cable RR Co. Car #57 at Grant. (Muni took over this line at the beginning of 1952.). In background, Morris Plan in Kamm Building before facade makeover, Progressive Optical, Silver Palace Theatre and Stanford Jewelry in Bancroft Building, Schwabacher-Frey Stationers, Grant Market, Pacific States Savings and Loan Co. American Trust Bank at left. At right, corner of Phelan Building with United Cigar store.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view south across plaza to Dewey Monument; I Magnin's (opened in this building in 1948); Werner Bldg.; Dohrmann's.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Union Square and Stockton to Benioff Fashions; TWA Building; City of Paris Department Store; I Magnin's, which opened in 1948; two F-line streetcars. Old Crow Bourbon billboard.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast toward Yerba Buena Island
Downtown / Union Square
MSRy #410 31-line passing the Emporium (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #110 renumbered #410 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #110.)
Downtown / Union Square
View east from center of Eddy to 31-Line #125 at Eddy at Powell, turning off Market and heading toward the Richmond District. Emporium and Flood Building in background and Bank of America (One Powell) on left.
Downtown / Union Square
View east from center of Market to MUNI D-line #60 with wings livery and Red Cross Flag turning onto Geary. de Young / Chronicle Building on left with Hymans Leasing, Peck-Judah, Greyhound Bus signs. 660 Market and Crocker Buildings. Palace Hotel on right. 'Give Gladly' banner on right for Red Cross campaign.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across intersection to approaching California Street Cable Railroad Co. car on O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line. In background, Omar Khayyam's, Ahrens Bros. Pies, Bakery Products, St. Marlow Hotel, Macy's. In distance, Central Tower (former Call Building) and Kamm Building on Market Street. Omar Khayyam's is in a 1906 building, redesigned in 1933 in Moderne style.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast from plaza to Dewey Monument, I. Magnin Building (opened 1948) and City of Paris.
Downtown / Union Square
View south across the square toward Dohrmann's Department Store
Downtown / Union Square
The final weeks of both the Tivoli Theatre, 70 Eddy., and 31-Line Streetcar #970 with zip stripe livery. Ray Kinney and his Royal Hawaiian Review playing, Bobby's Bar. The buildings on the left were demolished for the Parc 55 hotel and Cyril Magnin Street.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view southwest across busy Market to MUNI 'Magic Carpet' PCC car #1003 with wings livery and many busses and streetcars, Penney's, Kress, California School of Beauty Culture. "Drums of India" playing at the Telenews Theatre.
Downtown / Union Square
31-line, Municipal Railway (MUNI) streetcar #983, Flood Building and Emporium in background
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Market to Municipal Railway (MUNI) streetcars D-Line #202 with wings livery and J-Line #94. Palace Hotel at right.
Downtown / Union Square