Downtown -
Civic Center Area
Learn to prance here.
San Francisco Ballet Association,
Franklin and Grove
Stay here.
Inn at the Opera, Grove near
Franklin
Hear Sibelius here.
Louise
Davies Symphony Hall, Van Ness Ave. Since 1850, this was
also the site of Col. Tom Hayes' home, Hayes Park & Pavilion, St.
Ignatius College (now USF, located in Western Addition), the Van Ness
Theatre, and the athletic field of the High School of Commerce.
The War Memorial complex
Hear Puccini here.
Attend veterans' conventions
here. War
Memorial Veterans Building, Van Ness Ave. - similar in appearance
to its next door neighbor, the Opera House. Both were built simultaneously
in 1931-32. The circular building beyond is the State of California
office. It is symmetric with the circular Davies Symphony Hall behind
here on the other side of the Opera House.
San Francisco's palatial city hall, Van Ness Ave. Buildings on the left and right are across the street from the city hall, and are War Memorial Veterans Building and Opera Hall, respectively. Picture is actually taken from a block away where east-west Fulton St. ends at north-south Franklin St.
UC Hastings College of
the Law, sometimes known as the
100 McAllister Tower.
(Hastings is headquartered at 200 McAllister St.) The high rise
was originally the William Taylor Hotel built in the late 1920s.
It now contains student housing and law organizations.
In the foreground is the United
Nations Plaza, facing Market Street,
between Leavenworth and Hyde.
The dark green advertising kiosk, which ought to look familiar to anyone
who has been in Paris, is maintained by JC Decaux, a French company who
also maintain the famous porta-potties around town. (See the Haight
page.)
Simon Bolivar's statue in
U.N. Plaza
San Francisco Public Library
Main Branch, Larkin at Grove. The Dewey Decimal classification
still used here.
Tower Sighting
Mount Sutro Tower spotted
from library steps
Founders' Statue
Fulton Street, east end of
Civic Center Plaza
Building in background is
new home of Asian Art Museum.