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


[[Image:May 15, 1962 view from Fairmount wnp27.6291.jpg|800px]
[[Image:May 15, 1962 view from Fairmount wnp27.6291.jpg|800px]]


'''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—INS, now ICE|Immigration building]].'''
'''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—INS, now ICE|Immigration building]].'''

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Unfinished History

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

Financial District aerial Jan 29, 1947.

Photo: OpenSFhistory wnp28.1785

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.

Photo: OpenSFhistory wnp28.1789

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.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6291


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