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View east from Sir Francis Drake Hotel. W.J. Sloane and White House stores below. Construction of high-rise Wells Fargo Building (44 Montgomery) in distance. Russ, Mills Tower, Shell, Standard Oil, Equitable, Hunter-Dulin, Shreve and Hobart Buildings.
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View east across small plaza with rounded benches to SF Muni Cable Car #53. Santa Marina Building, Weinstein Co., Ferry Building, Embarcadero Freeway, Southern Pacific Building in background.
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Alcoa Building (One Maritime Plaza) from roof garden of Russ Building
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Color view of Pacific Telephone Building at 140 New Montgomery St.
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View west up California Street from across Market. Fife Building at center, Santa Marina Building at right. Weinstein Co.
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[Wells Fargo Bank Building & Bank of California] Elevated view northwest across California. Bank of California under construction. Wells Fargo Building and Kohl Building to left.
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View north toward Coit Tower from 14th floor of the J. Harold Dollar (formerly Balfour) Building, 351 California, southeast corner of Sansome and California. 343 Sansome at left. Building in foreground demolished. Zellerbach Paper Building at left remodeled and incorporated into larger structure. [Coit Tower from library in 1410 Balfour Building]
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View northeast toward Golden Gateway Towers and Old Federal Reserve Bank Building from 14th floor of J. Harold Dollar (formerly Balfour) Building, 351 California. [Federal Reserve Bank Building & Golden Gateway from 1410 Balfour Building]
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View west from lobby of Crown-Zellerbach Building (One Bush) toward Sansome Street. Standard Oil Building in background. Many people lounging on wall and standing in front
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[Bank of California in construction] Elevated view northwest across California. Bank of California under construction. Wells Fargo Building at left.
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Elevated view northwest across California from near Leidesdorff to Hartford Insurance Building, 650 California, between Grant & Kearny. Wells Fargo Building on right.
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Elevated view west across Drumm toward the Fife Building, 1 Drumm Street. The Fife Building opened 1909 and was demolished in 1966. California Street at right. Shell Building in the background left.
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Agricultural Building, Ferry Building, and freeway.
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View north on the Embarcadero toward the Ferry Building. Pier 14 was destroyed by fire (along with historic Ferryboat San Leandro) on September 25, 1969.
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Wells Fargo Bank on northwest corner. (In 2001, the remains of the Gold Rush-era store ship General Harrison would be discovered here during construction excavations.)
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Embarcadero south of Howard. The facade of the Pier 16 was demolished in May 1980. Stub end of Embarcadero Freeway at left.
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View southeast at the intersection of Sacramento and Front, 100 California (built 1959) at left. The white building at 236 Front, Schroeder's Restaurant, is the only extant building on this block of Front between California and Sacramento
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Southwest corner of Front and Sacramento. D. Debernardi & Co. Warehouse, 259 Front, built 1911.
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Rooftop view north to top of 343 Sansome Street (Crown Zellerbach Building,1930, Hyman & Appleton)Telegraph Hill on right, Russian hill on left, Ss. Peter & Paul Church in center. Marin Headlands and Mt. Tamalpais in background
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Market Street BART Montgomery Station construction, elevated view southwest from 1 Bush (Crown Zellerbach Building) towards Market & Sansome. Most buildings on south side of Market east of 2nd Street have since been demolished, including Balboa Building at 2nd Street corner. Flatiron Building at right remains in 2022.
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