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Intertitle: "Panorama of Mission Street." This jerky segment is a
right-to-left
(northeast-to-west) panorama filmed from the north side of Mission Street
between 6th and 7th streets, a block south of
Market Street. The camera looks northeast down Mission Street. The twin chimneys of the U.S. Mint (one smoking) at 5th Street are at center right. Beyond them and in the center of the picture is the Call Building tower on Market Street. The Flood Building at Market and Powell streets is seen in the background. The ruins of the Hale Brothers Department Store rise in the background at Market and 6th streets. In the far distance at left is the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill. Note the steps in the foreground leading nowhere; a common sight in the ruined city. A small break in the continuity occurs here. |
The arch-windowed ruin on Jessie Street between Mission and Market
streets is the Swedish Evangelical Mission Church, founded in
1877 and built on this site circa 1900. The heart of the city's
Scandinavian neighborhood lay several blocks further west. The distant ruined tower of St. Boniface Church (1902) rises beyond the classic facade of the ruined Hibernia Bank (1892) at McAllister and Jones streets, at Market Street. We see the north (Stevenson Street) wing of the U.S. Post Office (1905) at 7th and Mission streets, and a lower central part of the building behind a boundary wall. Built on a buried marsh, the building was damaged in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes. It was recently restored to serve as a court building for the U.S. Court of Appeals.
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