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Financial District

July 1, 1958

View east from Mark Hopkins Hotel's Top of the Mark to Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island. At far left, old Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square and County Jail, U.S. Appraiser's Building. California St. at center with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 720 California St. after 2 story addition (then Hartford Insurance Building), Old St. Mary's Church. Fireman's Fund Building with Colonial tower atop (built as Home Insurance Company Building 1951, demolished 1983). Clunie Building Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel). Russ Building at right. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building (with large S-P sign atop) in distance.