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Geary & Taylor

January 1, 1940

View southwest, Geary Street at right. Bellevue Hotel, 505 Geary (southwest corner of Geary and Taylor) now known as The Marker. Built in 1907 as the Hotel Bellevue on the site of the pre-earthquake and fire Hotel Aiglon. Before that the El Monte Hotel, The Lyndhurst, and The Hollenbeck, and also the site of a small pre-earthquake and fire alley, Geary Place, that ran south from Geary Street half a block to a dead end, to four small attached houses on the west side of the alley.(PF)