San Francisco Photolog [by SSC members]

Mortar & Pestle · June 4th, 2004, 03:04 AM

ON SITE IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA!!

I am happy to finally present you all with a photo series of San Francisco, taken on two separate occasions within the past month amid splendid, sunny weather.

In trying to decide how to arrange all these photos, I thought of some alternatives:

1) chronological - where I started...where I ended up
2) formal/structural - by building type
3) geographical - as per location in San Francisco

For reasons of simplicity, I decided on alternative 3!

SOME NOTES, before you start viewing:

1) All images have by taken by the 5.0 mgpxl Sony DSC-V1 camera, except where noted.

2) THE PHOTOS IN THIS THREAD ARE SEVERELY REDUCED IN SIZE AND QUALITY BY THE SERVER I AM USING!!! Most were taking very quickly and without much regard for artistic composition.

3) I will do my best to give identifying captions, though I have yet to identify all the buildings myself (even with the help of www.skyscrapers.com)! You will find the names of architects/firms, construction year, location and additional comments preceding some photos.

4) Please also visit my Berkeley Photo Threads!

Berkeley Churches

University of California, Berkeley: Part I

University of California, Berkeley: Part II

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CHINATOWN

The entrance gate to Chinatown, SF

A typical Chinatown apartment/commerce building

A view of Chinatown from California Street

CIVIC CENTER/MARKET

Lippert Building (unknown; 1924; Market Street)

Eastern Outfitting Company Building (Applegarth; 1909; Market Street; brick with woods posts; part of the Market Street Beautification project)

Golden Gate Theater (Lansburgh; 1922; NW corner of Taylor/Market; I am very fond of this south-facing façade with descending balcony windows)

Interior view

Unidentified as of yet

Unidentified

FINANCIAL DISTRICT/UPPER MARKET STREET

Views of the San Francisco Financial District from the Bay Bridge (first two photos taken with Nikon D70)
(Note the highly-sloped California Street in the distance behind the crane!)

Aerial view of the Financial District, with the Bay Bridge in the background

Hunter-Dulin Building (Schultze & Weaver; 1926; SW corner of Montgomery/Market)

View of the Hunter-Dulin Building, surrounded by skyscrapers

Northern Financial District building (unidentified)

Northern Financial District (with the TransAmerica Pyramid soaring on the right and Coit Tower in the distance)

A tiered skyscraper in the Northern Financial District

The Hobart Building (Polk; 1914; Market Street; one of San Francisco's most famous and well-liked buildings!)

Unidentified skyscraper with beaming sunlight

Hibernia Bank (Albert Pissis, architect; 1905/1907 rebuilt after fire; NW corner of McAllister/Market; the earliest surviving Classical building in San Francisco)

Sheraton Palace Hotel (Trowbridge & Livingston firm; 1909; SW corner of New Montgomery/Market)

The Humboldt Bank Building (Meyer & O'Brien; 1906; Market Street)

The Four Seasons Hotel and Residences (Handel & Associates; 2001; Market Street; first 21st Century skyscraper in SF)

A stunning apartment building

TransAmerica Pyramid

NORTH BEACH

Church of Saints Peter & Paul, North Beach, by twilight

Saint Francis of Assisi Church, North Beach

The Sentinel Building (on the ground level is the Café Niebaum-Coppola, owned and operated by San Francisco filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola)

A coffeehouse in North Beach

The apartment building separating North Beach from Chinatown at Broadway & Columbus Avenue

Map painted outside a restaurant in North Beach (note: not drawn to scale!

)

Casual restaurant life in North Beach

PRESIDIO (all photos taken with Nikon D70)

A military medical chopper performs a fly-over above the Presidio (former military grounds, now designated as a national park) during Memorial Day

American soldiers dressed in uniforms from earlier periods (WWS I & II, Civil War) make a solemn line-up during Memorial Day, 31 May 2004

Three American soldiers

The cemetery grounds at the Presidio

Old military barracks, with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge

Man admiring the Golden Gate Bridge

The Palace of Fine Arts (Bernard Maybeck) in the Presidio

A bird decides to serve as the head of a statue gracing the Palace of Fine Arts

RUSSIAN HILL (taken with Nikon D70)

A view of Lombard Street, "the crookedest street in the world" (photo taken from moving vehicle!)

TELEGRAPH HILL

View of Coit Tower from the Bay Bridge (taken with Nikon D70)

View looking northeast from Union Square

UNION SQUARE (all aerial views taken from Westin-St. Francis Hotel with Sony DSC-V1)

In the center, from near to far, the Humboldt Bank Building and San Francisco Marriott.

A closer view

Union Square

View of unidentified building from Union Square

EXTRAS: SF TRANSPORTATION

A streetcar riding up Market Street

A Van Ness-Market Trolley

A cable car rides past Union Square on Powell Street

Sightseeing bus affront Union Square

My limousine on this very fine day

Finally, a wonderful light-hearted reminder of my trip to San Francisco

wolkenkrabber · June 4th, 2004, 03:16 AM

wow! great photos, i really love the thread, your a great photographer i must say, i am looking forward for more photos

Vaidas · June 4th, 2004, 08:37 AM

Great photos!
I haven't been to the US yet, but that's the first city I will visit there

And I absolutely adore the Golden Gate bridge

Monkey · June 4th, 2004, 08:55 AM

Excellent pics ... what a fantastic place to visit.

John · June 4th, 2004, 10:58 AM

Beautiful! No wonder why SF is considered one of the best cities in USA, I'd love to live there

NorthStar77 · June 4th, 2004, 12:12 PM

What more can I say? Superb!

These images only confirms what a friend of mine that was there a month ago, told me. That it is a very nice, friendly, walkable city, with beautiful scenery!! I really want to visit SF one day, seriously!

BTW. why didn't you use www.photobucket.com, you can store larger images there, up to 250kB

AltiusAltiusAltius · June 4th, 2004, 03:03 PM

Great shots man!

My favorite is the one with sloped California St & Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel towering atop Nob Hill!

San Francisco is full of architectural treasures and your selection is great! The Market Street tower you haven't identified is Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (surrounded by some of the most beautiful heritage buildings such as Humboldt Bank, Phelan Building etc). I very much prefer the Marriott though!

The other tower on Powell St you were wondering about is Sir Francis Drake hotel (behind it you have Crowne Plaza Union Square hotel and the Fairmont high above on the Nob Hill...)

Do you have any more photos?

Cheers

ch1le · June 4th, 2004, 03:16 PM

aaah dam, nice pix, should have visited that too, but on my tour to US i got to visit many citys still... NY(ofcourse), Atlanta(hub to tampa), Philadelphia (ride by train to D.C + emergency landing-no fuel on plane-), D.C-nice city gotta love the squirrels, mag-the monuments are nice so is the White house, great order u got the in the US

DenverDane · June 4th, 2004, 03:36 PM

Great photos, M&P!

Reminds me of my trip to this city 10 years ago. San Francisco is definitely among the most interesting cities in the USA. It's got some great architecture, impressive bridges, as well as a beautiful setting.

RafflesCity · June 4th, 2004, 09:27 PM

delightful tour!

I'm really impressed with the rich architectural heritage and the chinatown!

hypermount · June 4th, 2004, 09:53 PM

Great pics!

Many things to see.

Monkey · June 4th, 2004, 09:55 PM

Raffi, you really should start using different routes for your LDN - SG - LDN trips.

That way you could stop over and pay SF a visit.

Wu-Gambino · June 4th, 2004, 10:06 PM

Awesome pics! Transamerica Pyramid is one of the greatest skyscrapers in the US!

Here's some sites that don't resize pics:

http://www.photobucket.com
http://www.fotopic.net

RafflesCity · June 4th, 2004, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Whose Homepage

Raffi, you really should start using different routes for your LDN - SG - LDN trips.

That way you could stop over and pay SF a visit.

I have been to SF, in my mum's stomach that is

But yeah the West Coast of US is one place I'd like to check out and these pics are a good reason to!

Daortíz · June 4th, 2004, 10:21 PM

Is so cool to have such a nice city 6 hours away in car
from Los Angeles

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Monkey · June 4th, 2004, 10:45 PM

True, SF IS a great city! And your pictures are wonderful, Mortar & Pestle!

Thank you!

So you'll think about it, Raffi?

Mortar & Pestle · June 4th, 2004, 10:53 PM

It's so nice to see so many of you coming out to visit SF........on SCity, that is!

It is a city more beautiful than words (and pictures!) can ever demonstrate.

bagel · June 4th, 2004, 11:33 PM

Ah San Francisco! What a place! What a city! A long time ago, as a visiting New Yorker, I told myself that if there were any place on the west coast I would live in it would be San Francisco.

Now I almost have my wish. I live just an hour's drive south and I love it.

Wonderful pics, Mortar & Pestle. Bravo!

I haven't been there often enough this year. Ah, but the summer is coming...

kiku99 · June 5th, 2004, 02:15 AM

SF is a beautiful city. i have to go there again sometimes. actually i am considering about going to SF State U.

Mortar & Pestle · June 5th, 2004, 07:33 AM

@NorthStar & Naptown...thanks for the Photobucket tip. I uploaded my S.F. photos to that site and discovered - aside from humongous proportions!

- terrible granularity and roughness in the images.

So I think this time, I willl have to settle with snapfish smallness!

@ AltiusAltiusAltius....as I acquire more photos, I will be sure to show them to you! Tomorrow I will be in the City (as San Francisco is called here in the Bay Area) once again for my cousin's graduation ceremony, so there will no doubt be some occasion for photography, including of St. Mary's Cathedral!!!
Btw, thanks for the helpful identifying information!

June 4th, 2004, 03:04 AM	#1
Mortar & Pestle Freezing & Lovin' It! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 76 Likes (Received): 0	San Francisco Photolog [by SSC members] ON SITE IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA!! I am happy to finally present you all with a photo series of San Francisco, taken on two separate occasions within the past month amid splendid, sunny weather. In trying to decide how to arrange all these photos, I thought of some alternatives: 1) chronological - where I started...where I ended up 2) formal/structural - by building type 3) geographical - as per location in San Francisco For reasons of simplicity, I decided on alternative 3! SOME NOTES, before you start viewing: 1) All images have by taken by the 5.0 mgpxl Sony DSC-V1 camera, except where noted. 2) THE PHOTOS IN THIS THREAD ARE SEVERELY REDUCED IN SIZE AND QUALITY BY THE SERVER I AM USING!!! Most were taking very quickly and without much regard for artistic composition. 3) I will do my best to give identifying captions, though I have yet to identify all the buildings myself (even with the help of www.skyscrapers.com)! You will find the names of architects/firms, construction year, location and additional comments preceding some photos. 4) Please also visit my Berkeley Photo Threads! Berkeley Churches University of California, Berkeley: Part I University of California, Berkeley: Part II _________________________________________________________________ CHINATOWN The entrance gate to Chinatown, SF A typical Chinatown apartment/commerce building A view of Chinatown from California Street CIVIC CENTER/MARKET Lippert Building (unknown; 1924; Market Street) Eastern Outfitting Company Building (Applegarth; 1909; Market Street; brick with woods posts; part of the Market Street Beautification project) Golden Gate Theater (Lansburgh; 1922; NW corner of Taylor/Market; I am very fond of this south-facing façade with descending balcony windows) Interior view Unidentified as of yet Unidentified FINANCIAL DISTRICT/UPPER MARKET STREET Views of the San Francisco Financial District from the Bay Bridge (first two photos taken with Nikon D70) (Note the highly-sloped California Street in the distance behind the crane!) Aerial view of the Financial District, with the Bay Bridge in the background Hunter-Dulin Building (Schultze & Weaver; 1926; SW corner of Montgomery/Market) View of the Hunter-Dulin Building, surrounded by skyscrapers Northern Financial District building (unidentified) Northern Financial District (with the TransAmerica Pyramid soaring on the right and Coit Tower in the distance) A tiered skyscraper in the Northern Financial District The Hobart Building (Polk; 1914; Market Street; one of San Francisco's most famous and well-liked buildings!) Unidentified skyscraper with beaming sunlight Hibernia Bank (Albert Pissis, architect; 1905/1907 rebuilt after fire; NW corner of McAllister/Market; the earliest surviving Classical building in San Francisco) Sheraton Palace Hotel (Trowbridge & Livingston firm; 1909; SW corner of New Montgomery/Market) The Humboldt Bank Building (Meyer & O'Brien; 1906; Market Street) The Four Seasons Hotel and Residences (Handel & Associates; 2001; Market Street; first 21st Century skyscraper in SF) A stunning apartment building TransAmerica Pyramid NORTH BEACH Church of Saints Peter & Paul, North Beach, by twilight Saint Francis of Assisi Church, North Beach The Sentinel Building (on the ground level is the Café Niebaum-Coppola, owned and operated by San Francisco filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola) A coffeehouse in North Beach The apartment building separating North Beach from Chinatown at Broadway & Columbus Avenue Map painted outside a restaurant in North Beach (note: not drawn to scale! ) Casual restaurant life in North Beach PRESIDIO (all photos taken with Nikon D70) A military medical chopper performs a fly-over above the Presidio (former military grounds, now designated as a national park) during Memorial Day American soldiers dressed in uniforms from earlier periods (WWS I & II, Civil War) make a solemn line-up during Memorial Day, 31 May 2004 Three American soldiers The cemetery grounds at the Presidio Old military barracks, with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge Man admiring the Golden Gate Bridge The Palace of Fine Arts (Bernard Maybeck) in the Presidio A bird decides to serve as the head of a statue gracing the Palace of Fine Arts RUSSIAN HILL (taken with Nikon D70) A view of Lombard Street, "the crookedest street in the world" (photo taken from moving vehicle!) TELEGRAPH HILL View of Coit Tower from the Bay Bridge (taken with Nikon D70) View looking northeast from Union Square UNION SQUARE (all aerial views taken from Westin-St. Francis Hotel with Sony DSC-V1) In the center, from near to far, the Humboldt Bank Building and San Francisco Marriott. A closer view Union Square View of unidentified building from Union Square EXTRAS: SF TRANSPORTATION A streetcar riding up Market Street A Van Ness-Market Trolley A cable car rides past Union Square on Powell Street Sightseeing bus affront Union Square My limousine on this very fine day Finally, a wonderful light-hearted reminder of my trip to San Francisco Last edited by Mortar & Pestle; June 7th, 2004 at 04:10 AM.

June 4th, 2004, 08:37 AM	#3
Vaidas Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Pisa (IT)/Vilnius (LT) Posts: 389 Likes (Received): 44	Great photos! I haven't been to the US yet, but that's the first city I will visit there And I absolutely adore the Golden Gate bridge __________________ My Photo threads: 6150 km in 14 days \|\| London is Awesome. \|\| My time in Leeds \|\| Pisa\|Toscana my flickr

June 4th, 2004, 12:12 PM	#6
NorthStar77 Born to run Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Oslo Posts: 1,720 Likes (Received): 1	What more can I say? Superb! These images only confirms what a friend of mine that was there a month ago, told me. That it is a very nice, friendly, walkable city, with beautiful scenery!! I really want to visit SF one day, seriously! BTW. why didn't you use www.photobucket.com, you can store larger images there, up to 250kB __________________ Read about the Fjordcity-project, and other urban developements in Oslo

June 4th, 2004, 03:03 PM	#7
AltiusAltiusAltius Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,218 Likes (Received): 9	Great shots man! My favorite is the one with sloped California St & Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel towering atop Nob Hill! San Francisco is full of architectural treasures and your selection is great! The Market Street tower you haven't identified is Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (surrounded by some of the most beautiful heritage buildings such as Humboldt Bank, Phelan Building etc). I very much prefer the Marriott though! The other tower on Powell St you were wondering about is Sir Francis Drake hotel (behind it you have Crowne Plaza Union Square hotel and the Fairmont high above on the Nob Hill...) Do you have any more photos? Cheers __________________ "A City is the greatest work of art possible" Lloyd Rees Last edited by AltiusAltiusAltius; June 5th, 2004 at 01:38 PM.

June 4th, 2004, 03:36 PM	#9
DenverDane Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denver/Copenhagen Posts: 1,058 Likes (Received): 0	Great photos, M&P! Reminds me of my trip to this city 10 years ago. San Francisco is definitely among the most interesting cities in the USA. It's got some great architecture, impressive bridges, as well as a beautiful setting. __________________ The Øresund Region - Copenhagen, Denmark + Malmö, Sweden - One destination, two countries. Latest photo threads: World Photos (2011), World Photos (2010), World Photos (2009), World Photos (2008), World Photos (2007), Madrid, Spain, Atlanta, Georgia, The Wild West, Denver, Colorado

June 4th, 2004, 03:16 AM	#2
wolkenkrabber Expert Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: same city as Jo Posts: 928 Likes (Received): 1	wow! great photos, i really love the thread, your a great photographer i must say, i am looking forward for more photos

June 4th, 2004, 08:55 AM	#4
Monkey Londinium langur Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Londinium Posts: 14,549 Likes (Received): 2	Excellent pics ... what a fantastic place to visit.

June 4th, 2004, 10:58 AM	#5
John No analogues Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London Posts: 1,428 Likes (Received): 0	Beautiful! No wonder why SF is considered one of the best cities in USA, I'd love to live there

June 4th, 2004, 03:16 PM	#8
ch1le always on Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: tallinn/Tartu Posts: 4,531 Likes (Received): 1	aaah dam, nice pix, should have visited that too, but on my tour to US i got to visit many citys still... NY(ofcourse), Atlanta(hub to tampa), Philadelphia (ride by train to D.C + emergency landing-no fuel on plane-), D.C-nice city gotta love the squirrels, mag-the monuments are nice so is the White house, great order u got the in the US

June 4th, 2004, 09:27 PM	#10
RafflesCity By Spirit Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S I N G A P O R E Posts: 26,215 Likes (Received): 6	delightful tour! I'm really impressed with the rich architectural heritage and the chinatown!

June 4th, 2004, 09:53 PM	#11
hypermount Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Malaysia Posts: 414 Likes (Received): 21	Great pics! Many things to see. __________________ Moto BARISAN NASIONAL: "United we stand, united we fall". Moto PAKATAN RANJANG: "United we stand, you fall yourself lah".

June 4th, 2004, 09:55 PM	#12
Monkey Londinium langur Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Londinium Posts: 14,549 Likes (Received): 2	Raffi, you really should start using different routes for your LDN - SG - LDN trips. That way you could stop over and pay SF a visit.

June 4th, 2004, 10:06 PM	#13
Wu-Gambino Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,678 Likes (Received): 2	Awesome pics! Transamerica Pyramid is one of the greatest skyscrapers in the US! Here's some sites that don't resize pics: http://www.photobucket.com http://www.fotopic.net

June 4th, 2004, 10:21 PM	#15
Daortíz República Salvadoreña Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: San Salvador Posts: 24,268 Likes (Received): 249	Is so cool to have such a nice city 6 hours away in car from Los Angeles .. .. .. __________________ las joyas preciosas vienen en cajas pequeñas ·´¯`·.¸.¸.·´¯`·.¸.. *el salvador.... descubrelo!!*

June 4th, 2004, 10:45 PM	#16
Monkey Londinium langur Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Londinium Posts: 14,549 Likes (Received): 2	True, SF IS a great city! And your pictures are wonderful, Mortar & Pestle! Thank you! So you'll think about it, Raffi?

June 4th, 2004, 10:53 PM	#17
Mortar & Pestle Freezing & Lovin' It! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 76 Likes (Received): 0	It's so nice to see so many of you coming out to visit SF........on SCity, that is! It is a city more beautiful than words (and pictures!) can ever demonstrate.

June 4th, 2004, 11:33 PM	#18
bagel Member, Winifred Fan Club Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Santa Cruz, CA Posts: 2,401 Likes (Received): 3	Ah San Francisco! What a place! What a city! A long time ago, as a visiting New Yorker, I told myself that if there were any place on the west coast I would live in it would be San Francisco. Now I almost have my wish. I live just an hour's drive south and I love it. Wonderful pics, Mortar & Pestle. Bravo! I haven't been there often enough this year. Ah, but the summer is coming... __________________ bagels \| blog I am the original thread killer.

June 5th, 2004, 02:15 AM	#19
kiku99 ไทย Amazing Thailand 泰国 Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Bangkok Posts: 3,357 Likes (Received): 4	SF is a beautiful city. i have to go there again sometimes. actually i am considering about going to SF State U. __________________ 'BANGKOK-THAILAND' --> Los Angeles --> Melbourne, Australia! --> & now back to amazing Bangkok, Thailand again Bangkok Skyline Links Thai forum \| Bangkok Skyscrapers Info \| Amazing Thailand \| Bangkok City

June 5th, 2004, 07:33 AM	#20
Mortar & Pestle Freezing & Lovin' It! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 76 Likes (Received): 0	@NorthStar & Naptown...thanks for the Photobucket tip. I uploaded my S.F. photos to that site and discovered - aside from humongous proportions! - terrible granularity and roughness in the images. So I think this time, I willl have to settle with snapfish smallness! @ AltiusAltiusAltius....as I acquire more photos, I will be sure to show them to you! Tomorrow I will be in the City (as San Francisco is called here in the Bay Area) once again for my cousin's graduation ceremony, so there will no doubt be some occasion for photography, including of St. Mary's Cathedral!!! Btw, thanks for the helpful identifying information! Last edited by Mortar & Pestle; June 7th, 2004 at 04:11 AM. Reason: Added comments!

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