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View from Top of the Mark 1954

View east to California St. at left, Pine St. at center. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building (S-P sign atop added March 1954), Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop, Matson and PG&E Building in distance left. Standard Oil Building, Metropolitan Life Building (later Cogswell College, Ritz-Carlton Hotel) at bottom. On Montgomery St.: Financial Center Building, later Omni Hotel, Clunie Building, Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Russ Building at center, Alexander and Hunter-Dulin Buildings to right, Bay Bridge in last stages of being painted in background. At far left center Home Insurance Company Building, completed 1951.
Photographer Unknown (Courtesy of a Private Collector)

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