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Originally Posted by sfcity1
These are great photos!
I think that alot of these nicer and bigger buildings from pre-1906 still exist today, partucularly around union square and market street west of 4th. City hall is a big loss, but there is a nice replacement there. Alot of very nice art deco buildings and victorian buildings have been developed since then.
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They do, of course. You can see the facade of the old Emporium store, now Westfield SF Center here:
The buildings on either side of the cable car turnaround are old. As we all know, the deYoung Building, seen here, is now being rehabbed as the Ritz Residences:
Even this tower is still there, stripped of its ornament but with a vertical addition all of which makes it look "deco" now (see
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=213394 ):
In fact, a number of the great buildings that survived the quake were covered in sheet metal or other nastiness in subsequent eras and are still there hiding under the crud.