Contains 92 photos
View north to Embarcadero Freeway construction. Southern Pacific Building (later One Market) with S-P sign atop at far left. Ferry Building at right. Produce District at center. Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill in distance.
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Elevated view from Ferry Building northwest to later stages of Embarcadero Freeway construction, old Produce District, and Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. Ferry Station Post Office, Jack's Waterfront Hangout at left. Metropolitan Chevron service station, State of California Department of Employment, Wellman Peck Co, Bemis Bros. Bag Co., National Ice and Cold Storage buildings. Large building at upper left built 1907 as the American Biscuit Company building on the corner of Battery & Broadway, still stands 2022. Alcatraz, Mt. Tamalpais in distance.
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Elevated view northeast to freeway construction in front of Ferry Building
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View northwest across Washington & Drumm intersection to old Produce Market district, demolished for Golden Gateway project. Scatena Galli Fruit Co., 104 Washington at right. In distance, John Demartini Co., Levy & Zentner, Appraisers Building.
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View northeast to old Produce District, now SF Golden Gateway. Jacobs Malcom & Burtt, Scatena-Galli Fruit co. flatbed truck. Embaracadero Freeway, Bay Bridge tower in background right.
Waterfront
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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View northwest approaching Pier 22 and Bay Bridge. Taken from bridge of outbound ship. The Embarcadero Freeway looks completed (May, 1959); and the old S-P sign (center right edge of image) on the Southern Pacific Building is still there (removed, Sept. 1961).
SF Bay
View from bay towards waterfront piers, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower. Freighter 'Seattle Star' tied up at pier in foreground.
Telegraph Hill
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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Ferry Building tower at right center
SF Bay
Art fair in Justin Herman Plaza. Elevated Embarcadero Freeway in background.
Downtown
Ferry Building Plaza. Street vendors; Embarcadero Freeway.
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