Fairmont Hotel?
Adlai Stevenson with VIPs inside hotel. Likely the Fairmont, where he spent the night of 10-15-1952
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Powell near California
Powell Cable Car #527; looking south from California
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View from top of the Mark
View of Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, North Beach and Bay.
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California near Powell
View East on California toward Bay Bridge, S.P. Building. On right, new wing of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building is under construction, with upper stories of Pacific National Bank Building behind.
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California near Powell
Looking east towards intersection with Stockton Street. Bay Bridge in distance. California Street Cable Car #3 heading uphill.
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Powell near Pine
View south on Powell, cable car #509 coming uphill, street partially dug up.
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Mason & Washington
Cable Car #527 turning on to Washington, passing Man Sang Meat Market. Boys standing on corner.
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California near Powell
View east on California toward Powell. University Club at left. Southern Pacific Building and Bay Bridge in background. Construction at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building in distance, center. (no color on slide, processing error?)
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Mason near California
View south on Mason toward Pine down steep block (no color on slide, processing error?)
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Powell near Pine
View south on Powell toward Pine down steep block (no color on slide, processing error?)
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California near Mason
Cable car #22 passing Fairmont Hotel, view towards south side of the street. Last week of December 1953.
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California near Mason
Cable car #15 passing Fairmont Hotel, view towards north side of the street, sign for Papagayo Room, Cirque Room. Last week of December 1953.
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View from Mark Hopkins
View east from the Top of the Mark toward downtown and Bay Bridge. California Street at center. California Street wing of the Metropolitan Life Building is nearing completion at bottom center. 1/4
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View from Mark Hopkins
View east from the Top of the Mark toward downtown and Bay Bridge. California Street at center. The California Street wing of the Metropolitan Life Building is nearing completion at bottom center. 4/4
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Powell near Bush
View south on Powell toward Bush from moving vehicle. Cable car #525 at center. Lot of traffic.
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California near Mason
California Street cable car passing the Fairmont Hotel. Part of the Mark Hopkins hotel at right.
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Sacramento & Jones
View east from Sacramento and Jones Streets on Nob Hill. Fairmont Hotel, Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion), Mark Hopkins Hotel, Morsehead Apartments 1001 California), Grace Cathedral buildings on right, Huntington Park beyond.
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Fairmont Hotel
Interior view of Fairmont's Tonga Room in its original cruise-liner themed decor as the 'S.S. Tonga.' Original Fairmont Hotel swimming pool at center. [The Tonga Room - SF's most original room featuring Chinese and South Sea Island Foods, Cocktail, Dancing, and Entertainment Nightly]
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Fairmont Hotel
Interior of Tonga Room in its first incarnation as a cruise liner-themed lounge, 'S.S. Tonga.' Original Fairmont Plunge swimming pool was converted to floating bandstand. [The Tonga Room - SF's most original room featuring Chinese and South Sea Island Foods, Cocktail, Dancing, and Entertainment Nightly]
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View southwest to Nob Hill over North Beach and Chinatown. Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel), Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels. Brocklebank, Park Lane and Cathedral Apartments, Grace Cathedral with single bell tower. In center distance, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Nuestra Senora de Guadelupe Church at far right center on Broadway near Mason. Lyon Van & Storage Co. with large Moving sign on roof on Stockton, near Green at lower right. At lower center, St. Francis of Assisi Church. At far left center, 450 Sutter building and Sir Francis Drake Hotel.
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