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[[Image:View east over South of Market, Bay Bridge and 5th Street on ramp, Treasure Island under construction c 1937 wnp26.1006.jpg|800px]] | |||
'''View east over South of Market, Bay Bridge and 5th Street on-ramp, Treasure Island under construction c. 1937.''' | |||
''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.1006'' | |||
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'''Financial District aerial Jan 29, 1947.''' | '''Financial District aerial Jan 29, 1947.''' | ||
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[[Image:Jan 29 1947 Aerial view from blimp looking north to skyline from south of Bay Bridge opensfhistory wnp28.1789.jpg|800px]] | [[Image:Jan 29 1947 Aerial view from blimp looking north to skyline from south of Bay Bridge opensfhistory wnp28.1789.jpg|800px]] | ||
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'''Same day in 1947, view from blimp looking north to skyline from south of Bay Bridge.''' | '''Same day in 1947, view from blimp looking north to skyline from south of Bay Bridge.''' | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:06, 14 June 2023
Unfinished History
View east over South of Market, Bay Bridge and 5th Street on-ramp, Treasure Island under construction c. 1937.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.1006
Financial District aerial Jan 29, 1947.
Photo: OpenSFhistory.org wnp28.1785
Same day in 1947, view from blimp looking north to skyline from south of Bay Bridge.
Photo: OpenSFhistory.org wnp28.1789
Buena Vista Park provided a nice vista on a more demure skyline in 1955.
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.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6291