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View from Top of the Mark

January 1, 1953

View east toward Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island. Old Federal Reserve Building, Ferry Building, Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Russ Building.

Tony Arioli - Califtony707@aol.com message: This image was taken in 1953 - the California Street Annex of the Metropolitan Life Building (just above the left side of the blackish mark in the lower right hand corner of the view and to the lower right of the Independence Hall - like building on California St.) is nearing completion with a construction elevator visible to its lower left (the brownish-red ladder like structure.)