Open SF History Photos

Market & 5th
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Market & 5th

SFMR Muni #564 6-Line Outbound, Humboldt Bank, Paris Theatre

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Stockton
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Market & Stockton

View across Market from about Stockton Street A line of Municipal Railway (Muni) PCC streetcars. including #1158 L-Line. Humboldt Bank Building (Bank of America) and Paris Theatre. Most buildings on the south side of Market here now demolished.

Downtown / Union Square
California & Grant
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California & Grant

SFMR Muni Cable Car #51 on California, Russ Building in background

Chinatown
Market & 11th
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Market & 11th

View southeast across intersection to SFMR Muni PCC #1156 J-Line boarding passengers at island, Kaplan's Army Surplus, Great Western Furniture.

Civic Center
St. Mary's Cathedral
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St. Mary's Cathedral

View northwest across Van Ness & O'Farrell intersection to St. Mary's Cathedral, construction of Delbert Block (Arthur A. Lamb architect, demolished 1910) at left. Crowd of well dressed people in front of church. Same construction pictured in wnp102.0024.

Tenderloin
Market near New Montgomery
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Market near New Montgomery

Muni track work in front of Palace Hotel

Financial District
Columbus & Jackson
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Columbus & Jackson

View southeast on Columbus toward Montgomery Block, E-Line Streetcar. At center, Hotel Reims in Fugazi Bank Building (Fugazi Banca Popolare Operaia Italiana) built 1909,later Bank of America and Transamerica Building (as shown here). Exists today as San Francisco Landmark #52. Venezia Cafe, San Joaquin Hotel rooming house. Original Federal Reserve Bank in background. [Columbus Ave. San Francisco]

North Beach
Market near O'Farrell
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Market near O'Farrell

Looking east, Mutual Savings Bank, Chronicle Building, Hobart [copy negative damaged]

Downtown / Union Square
Downtown skyline
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Downtown skyline

N.W. from Chronicle Building, Mark Hopkins Hotel at center, dirigible in sky1930s

South of Market
Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

Suspension section of bridge, Yerba Buena Island. Taken from bay

SF Bay
Golden Gate Bridge
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Golden Gate Bridge

Prior to opening, Doyle Drive in foreground

Presidio
Golden Gate Bridge
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Golden Gate Bridge

Exterior of Fort Point looking west towards arch over fort. Sign at right reads 'Storeroom John A. Roebling's Sons Co.' (Probably taken between October 1935 and May 1936 during spinning of Golden Gate Bridge cables, performed by the Roebling Co. Note large cable spool at left.)

Presidio
Golden Gate Bridge
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Golden Gate Bridge

Prior to opening, San Francisco side railing and light fixtures

Presidio
Golden Gate Bridge
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Golden Gate Bridge

Prior to opening, people viewing bridge from Doyle Drive. Taken from Lincoln Blvd in Presidio

Presidio
View from Pacific Heights
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View from Pacific Heights

Looking toward Presidio and Palace of Fine Arts

Pacific Heights
US Custom House
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US Custom House

Main entrance to the United States Custom House on Battery Street. Granite carvings on the outside of the building were done <em>in situ</em> from raw granite blocks.

North Beach
Oakland
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Oakland

Alameda County Court House next to Lake Merritt

Outside SF
19th & Church
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19th & Church

Streetcar on private right-of-way through Dolores Park. Mission High in background

Mission Dolores
Hunters Point Auto Repair
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Hunters Point Auto Repair

View west across Lane Street between Evans and Fairfax (street does not exist any more in that block).

Bayview
Lombard near Larkin.
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Lombard near Larkin.

Above Polk, looking west toward Presidio

Russian Hill