Open SF History Photos

View from Twin Peaks
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View from Twin Peaks

View east towards Market and South of Market

Midtown Terrace
Bay Bridge from bay
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Bay Bridge from bay

Suspension tower and Yerba Buena Island

St. Francis Circle
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St. Francis Circle

St. Francis Circle Looking West down Sloat [Sloat Blvd. west from Junipero Serra Blvd.] [DPW A2599]

Sunset
21st Street near Mission
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21st Street near Mission

Merit Shaving Parlor, two men in cowboy clothing

Mission
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Looking back at the city skyline from a ferry on the bay. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building; ferries in slips.

Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

Cable car turntable. MSRy #50. Flood Building in background.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View northeast across Powell to cable car turntable and Market Street Railway (MSRy) #504 on Powell and Mason Line. Flood Building behind with Owl Drug.

Downtown / Union Square
Civic Center
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Civic Center

Temporary veterans housing looking southwest from the center of Civic Center Plaza toward Grove and Polk and the Health Department building.

Civic Center
Van Ness & Fulton
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Van Ness & Fulton

View to Veterans Memorial Performing Arts Center

Civic Center
Grove near Van Ness
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Grove near Van Ness

View west towards Opera House from City Hall

Civic Center
Polk & Grove
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Polk & Grove

Civic Center plaza view southwest to Public Health Building, City Hall at right

Civic Center
Van Ness & Fulton
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Van Ness & Fulton

View to Veterans Memorial Performing Arts Center

Civic Center
California near Stockton
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California near Stockton

View east on California toward Bay Bridge from above Joice Street intersection

Nob Hill
Junipero Serra Blvd
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Junipero Serra Blvd

Junipero Serra South from St. Francis Circle [DPW A2602]

West Portal
Sansome at Halleck
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Sansome at Halleck

View north to Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill from Crown-Zellerbach Building. In foreground, rear of Tadich Grill at Clay and Leidesdorff Streets, Montgomery Block to left.

Financial District
Financial District
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Financial District

View southeast from Russian Hill (Ina Coolbrith Park). Appraiser's Building (completed 1944) at center. Hall of Justice and County Jail on Portsmouth Square to right of center, original Federal Reserve Bank just beyond. Russ Building at far right. Bay Bridge in distance.

Russian Hill
Market & Embarcadero
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Market & Embarcadero

J-Church streetcar at Ferry Building, 'Port of San Francisco' sign on Ferry Building

Financial District
Geary & Masonic
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Geary & Masonic

#1 Muni streetcar at Presidio Car Barn

Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Market & Embarcadero
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Market & Embarcadero

View southeast across Market to Muni streetcar, J Line #1 with wings livery. Ensign Cafe, 3 Market Liquors, Ferry Building in background with Port of San Francisco sign installed late 1951 or early 1952.

Financial District
Dolores Park
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Dolores Park

#1 Muni streetcar. J-Church looking north to overpass and Mission High School.

Mission Dolores