Market & Eddy at Powell
Drawing of view northwest across Market to San Francisco Business College in Douglas Building (1909).
South of MarketOpen SF History Photos
Vicente & West Portal
View to northwest corner, Colonial Savings & Loan Association.
West Portal
Marine Exchange Lookout
Old Marine Exchange Lookout at Point Lobos, on present site of USS San Francisco Memorial.
Lands End
Pacific near Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Firemen fighting fire with water near 408 Pacific and Marconi Hotel (419)
North Beach
Fleishhacker Pool Aerial
Ocean Beach, Fleishhacker Pool, Great Highway, Tait's at the Beach, Sloat Blvd., Fleishhacker Playfield, Mothers' Building [Municipal Swimming Pool S.F> Cal.]
Lakeshore
View from 20th & Noe
Looking toward Twin Peaks.
Eureka Valley
3rd & Townsend
View southwest across intersection to Southern Pacific Pasenger Depot shortly after completion. Horse drawn Palace & Fairmont Hotel shuttle coach at right.
South Beach
Telegraph Hill
Night view from bay [After dark from offshore, San Francisco's skyline is a sparkling necklace reflected in the deep blue of the bay. Telegraph Hill, capped by Coit Tower and framed by the lacy network of the Bay Bridge, looms above the Embarcadero]
Telegraph Hill
Chinatown
[SLEUTH ON THE TRAIL is Charles Coburn, who seeks location of an address in this Chinatown scene from Impact, a Harry M. Popkin production for United Artists...]
Chinatown
Golden Gate Park
[ROOT OF AN EVIL - Police officer Bernard Gallagher uproots a marijuana plant in Golden Gate Park. Tended by a gardener who said he didn't know what it was, the plant was capable of producing about $100 worth of dope. It was turned over to narcotics agents]
Golden Gate Park
Potrero Hill Aerial
Western Pacific Railroad tunnel fire. View northwest from above Sierra Street. [A stubborn fire in a railroad tunnel, Aerial view made 7/3 shows entrance to tunnel (center bottom) whose timbers are still burning, and large hole in street where top of tunnel ha started to collapse, necessitating the evacuation of a dozen homes so far.]
Potrero Hill
Fillmore & Fell
[Firemen ascending ladders in four-alarm blaze here in which four persons died, 17 were hurt, some 16 persons were carried to safety down ladders. 200 firemen fought the blaze.]
Lower Haight
Lyon & Haight
San Francisco Mime Troupe Gorilla Band descending steps from Buena Vista Park for Freedom Festival Week parade.
Buena Vista
Sutro Heights
Entrance to Sutro Residence. Two statues of women and elaborate urns holding plants flank entry steps.
Sutro
Miraloma near Yerba Buena
Willie Mays' house, 175 Miraloma Drive [This is the new home 175 Miraloma Drive, for which Willie Mays, SF Giants center-fielder, offered $37,500. Willie's offer was turned down, the owner Walter A. Gneadiloff, explaining there was great neighborhood pressure against the deal. Gneadiloff commented:
Sherwood Forest
Downtown Aerial
[Cargo liner heads down SF Bay toward Golden Gate. City's downtown skyline and Bay Bridge in the background.] View looking southeast
O'Farrell & Market
View southeast toward the Call Building (3rd and Market), Silver Palace Theater, Sorenson & Co. crowds of people. advertisement for a sale at Royal Shoes. Post-earthquake Hearst Examiner building at 3rd and Market corner (1911) not yet built.
Downtown / Union Square
Van Ness & Oak
View northwest across Market to Masonic Temple and original location of California Volunteers memorial (now at Dolores and Market). At left Young Men's Institute/International Center, 50 Oak St. (1914), extensively remodeled in 2000's for San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Civic Center
4th & Market
Elevated view southeast across Market to Red Cross nurses in Parade on Market Street, crowds lining street; California Theatre, Humboldt Savings Bank; Call Building in background. Pacific Building at right. [The Great Parade on ....1917]
Downtown / Union Square
Eddy & Market
View east to Emporium reopening after Earthquake and Fire. Pacific Building under construction, Flood Building at left.
Downtown / Union Square