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Financial District & Bay Bridge viewed from Coit Tower

Fisherman’s Wharf, Piers 31, 33, 35 & The Embarcadero viewed from Coit Tower

<- Saints Peter and Paul Church & Russian Hill <- Saints Peter and Paul Church & Russian Hill viewed from Coit Tower Ferry Building viewed from Coit Tower ->

Mural inside Coit Tower

Coit Tower Coit Tower Transamerica Pyramid

Golden Gate viewed from Fort Point

Golden Gate viewed from Vista Point

Golden Gate viewed from near Battery Spencer

Powell Street Cable Car Turnaround (done manually !) (Downtown)

<- Cable Car on Hyde Street (Russian Hill) Cable Car at night ->

Union Square (Downtown)

Wells Fargo Bank & former Savings Union Bank (Corner Grant & Market, Downtown)

City Hall (Downtown)

American Chinese (Falungung) practising qiqong in front of City Hall

City Hall at dusk

<- Former US Mint (5th Avenue, Downtown) <- Former US Mint (5th Avenue, Downtown) San Francisco Chronicle -> (5th Avenue, Downtown)

Marriott, corner 5th & Mission (SoMa : South of Market)

Yerba Buena Gardens (SoMa)

<. <- San Francisco MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). (SoMa) < <- San Francisco MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) (SoMa) Contemporary Jewish Museum (SoMa) ->

<- Grant Avenue (Chinatown) Peace Pagoda (Japantown) ->

‘Painted Ladies’, Alamo Square (The Haight)

‘Painted Ladies’, Alamo Square (The Haight)

Typical houses, Grant Avenue (North Beach)

Typical victorian homes, Central Avenue (The Haight)

Typical victorian homes (The Haight)

Upper Haight : a district reliving the ‘60s hippies glory days (stores selling drug smoking materials … , radical literature bookshops …)

Tommy’s Joynt, San Francisco original Hof Brau, one of SF longest living institutions -> (corner Geary Street & Van Ness Avenue) <-Typical house with an herbs store (look at the sign of this store, above : ‘to help you feel … horny’ ! …)

Spanish-Moorish style Castro’s theatre, San Francisco grandest cinema (located in The Castro : this neighbourhood is one of the major gay scene in San Francisco)

Maritime Plaza & The Embarcadero (Financial District)

Beale Street (Financial District)

Fountain, Maritime Plaza (Financial District)

South Beach Harbor Park (look at the bow & arrow), southern end of Bay Bridge & recent buildings (SoMa), viewed from Pier 40

Bay Bridge (day) Bay Bridge (night)

A friendly city : free hugs …. but (see next) …..

The dark side …. … but redemption is next door … ->

Ferry Building (Ferry Terminal Plaza)

Pier 9 on San Francisco Bay

One of the ferry terminals on San Francisco Bay, near Ferry Building

Ferry Building at night

Ferry Building & Pier 1 at night

Fisherman’s Wharf (a tourist trap : the fishermen who once snared sea life have gone …)

<- Modern art, Chestnut Street (The Marina) Modern art, The Embarcadero -> ( near Fisherman’s Wharf)

Alcatraz (San Francisco Bay)

The said (untruly) world’s crookedest street (Lombard Street, Russian Hill) (appears in Vertigo, the Hitchcock’s movie)

Twin Peaks & California Academy of Sciences, viewed from top of the tower of MH de Young Museum (Golden Gate Park)

Sculptures near MH de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park

Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park

Legion of Honor (Art Museum), in Lincoln Park (a marble-clad replica of Paris’ Légion d’Honneur)

Palace of Fine Arts (Presidio)

Palace of Fine Arts at dusk (Presidio)

Palace of Fine Arts at dusk (Presidio)