Downtown Vista Before Manhattanization, mid-20th Century

Unfinished History

View east over South of Market, Bay Bridge and 5th Street on ramp, Treasure Island under construction c 1937 wnp26.1006.jpg

View east over South of Market, Bay Bridge and 5th Street on-ramp, Treasure Island under construction c. 1937.

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Financial District aerial Jan 29, 1947 opensfhistory wnp28.1785.jpg

Financial District aerial Jan 29, 1947.

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Jan 29 1947 Aerial view from blimp looking north to skyline from south of Bay Bridge opensfhistory wnp28.1789.jpg

Same day in 1947, view from blimp looking north to skyline from south of Bay Bridge.

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Hashbury$downtown-view-1955.jpg

Buena Vista Park provided a nice vista on a more demure skyline in 1955.

May 15, 1962 view from Fairmount wnp27.6291.jpg

View from Fairmount Hotel at top of Nob Hill, May 15, 1962. Hall of Justice still stands in middle of photo on Kearny Street in front of Portsmouth Square. The taller white building is the Immigration building.

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