Financial District

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Embarcadero near Mission
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Embarcadero near Mission

View north on Embarcadero near Mission. Embarcadero Freeway at left, Ferry Building and state agriculture building at right.

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Pier 1
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Pier 1

Embarcadero Freeway in foreground.

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View from Mark Hopkins
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View from Mark Hopkins

View East from the Mark Hopkins toward Downtown, Financial District, Bay Bridge, SF Bay. The International Building (Kearny and California) under construction at center [1602 Oakland Bay Bridge San Francisco]

Nob Hill
Market & 1st
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Market & 1st

View west, Zellerbach Building under construction

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Market & Montgomery
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Market & Montgomery

Old Union Trust Building. View northeast across Market Street down Montgomery. Hobart Building at right.

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Market & Bush
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Market & Bush

View southwest on Market near Bush, Municipal Railway MUNI streetcar #1008 out of service parked on dead-end track (Remnant of tracks to the Ferry Building). Mechanics Monument, Zellerbach Plaza, Hobart Building in the background.

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Downtown Skyline
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Downtown Skyline

Taken from Sir Francis Drake Hotel. View east toward bay.

Downtown
Ferry Building From Bay
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Ferry Building From Bay

12 noon; looking west from bay; Southern Pacific Building (S-P sign removed in September 1961); Shell Building; Russ Building, Bethlehem Steel Corp. Building / 100 California (1960, Welton D. Becket architect), Mark Hopkins Hotel.

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Market at Sutter
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Market at Sutter

View east to Muni J-Line #1038 passing Crown Zellerbach Building. Donahue Mechanics Monument, Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect), Tilden Sales Co. Bulding, Ferry Building and Embarcadero Freeway in background.

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Financial District Aerial
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Financial District Aerial

View southeasterly over Financial District, South of Market, Bay Bridge, Transbay Terminal, Embarcadero Freeway. Russ Building, Standard Oil and Shell Buildings, Equitable Life Insurance Building / 100 Montgomery Street (1955) at center, Bethlehem Steel Corp. Building / 100 California (1960, Welton D. Becket architect) at far left. Just beyond is Southern Pacific Building with S-P sign atop, removed September, 1961.

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Montgomery Street
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Montgomery Street

French President Charles DE Gaulle arrival parade, Russ Building at right.

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Montgomery Street
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Montgomery Street

French President Charles DE Gaulle arrival parade

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California & Montgomery
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California & Montgomery

De Gaulle Visit. De Gaulle standing in convertible gesturing with right hand.

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Montgomery near Pine
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Montgomery near Pine

De Gaulle Visit. Street crowded. DE Gaulle standing with both hands up.

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560 Market
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560 Market

3 People on roof of Patrick & Co.

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California near Davis
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California near Davis

View east on California to President De Gaulle motorcade, Nob Hill. Bethlehem Steel HQ (1959, now 100 California) at far right.

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California & Battery
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California & Battery

View east on California to Charles De Gaulle parade. Balloons and confetti in the air. De Gaulle standing and waving in car. Southern Pacific building with large S-P sign on roof and Fife Building with Hamm's sign atop in distance left 255 California (built as John Hancock Building 1958, architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Edward Charles Bassett), Robert Dollar Building.

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California & Sansome
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California & Sansome

View east on California to motorcade with Gen. Charles De Gaulle waving from lead car. In background, Southern Pacific Building with S-P sign atop. Fife Building with Hamm's Billboard atop, Robert Dollar and J. Harold Dollar Buildings.

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Market & Battery
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Market & Battery

View east. 38-line Geary bus, Greyhound Station

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Market & Sutter
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Market & Sutter

View south across Market to vendor at newspaper stand kiosk "Pirates Champs!", Kehoe Display & Fixture Co., 541 Market, and other buildings on south side of Market.

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