Downtown Vista Before Manhattanization, mid-20th Century
Unfinished History
Financial District aerial Jan 29, 1947.
Photo: OpenSFhistory wnp28.1785
Same day in 1947, view from blimp looking north to skyline from south of Bay Bridge.
Photo: OpenSFhistory 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