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View from Mark Hopkins

January 1, 1948

View east to Financial District skyscrapers, including Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel) Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building 315 Montgomery, Russ Building, Alexander Building, Standard Oil Building . Ferry Building, Bay Bridge in distance. PG&E Building annex in center distance built 1947-48, in late stages of construction here. Metropolitan Life Insurance Building at bottom center. Clunie Building at California and Montgomery with large Lincoln National Life ad on west side. At far left center, original Federal Reserve Bank on Sansome.