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Financial District aerial

January 1, 1934

View northwest over Financial District over Bush and Market. Shell Building in foreground right, Standard Oil Building foreground left, Russ Building at left center, Commercial Union Assurance Building with cupola (315 Montgomery) at center. To its right, Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, completed 1930, demolished 1969). To right, Financial Center Building (1927), later Omni Hotel. Mills Building and Mills Tower (completed 1932). Portsmouth Square at upper right corner, Old St. Mary's Cathedral top center.