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View from Nob Hill

January 1, 1931

View northeast from Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Downtown View: Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, completed 1930, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Bldg. (315 Montgomery), Russ Building, Mills Building with Mills Tower (1931), Shell Building, Yerba Buena Island. Two Pacific Telephone Buildings at right (on Bush, near Kearny). At far left, Hall of Justice and County Jail on Portsmouth Square, corner of Metropolitan Life Insurance Building.