Mick Hartley

Looking up California Street from Sansome St after the April 18th earthquake:

[Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Co]

Full size here.

For a closer view of the Fairmont Hotel, on the right at the top of the hill, go here.

The Wiki page on the earthquake has a couple of spectacular panoramas, here and here. On that second one, expanded to full size, you can make out the Fairmont, standing alone amid the desolation, about two-thirds over on the right.

And here's the view today.