Top of the Mark, Rooftop restaurant at InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, United States
Top of the Mark is a restaurant and rooftop bar on the 19th floor of the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel offering 360-degree views of the city. From here you see the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and the entire San Francisco Bay.
The Mark Hopkins Hotel, built by George D. Smith on the site of the Mark Hopkins mansion that burned after the 1906 earthquake, was dedicated in 1926. In 1939 Smith had the 11-room 19th-floor penthouse converted into a glass-walled cocktail lounge for US$110,000. During World War II, servicemen bound for the Pacific drank a farewell toast here; the northwest corner became known as "Weeper's Corner".
The bar's name comes from its perch on the 19th floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel. In the 1940s Marjorie Trumbull broadcast celebrity radio interviews on KSFO from here. During the Korean War, squadrons kept a signed "squadron bottle" at the bar; the man who finished it kept the label and bought the next. Live music and dancing now fill most days.
The bar occupies the 19th floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel at California and Mason Streets on Nob Hill, reached by the hotel's lifts. On fog-free days the windows take in the financial district, Chinatown, North Beach, the bay, Grace Cathedral and Huntington Park. Live music and dancing run most days, and an afternoon tea service is offered in December.
The northwest corner is called "Weeper's Corner", named for the wives and girlfriends who gathered there during World War II for a last look at ships leaving for the Pacific. During the Korean War, squadrons kept signed "squadron bottles" at the bar; the man who finished one kept the signed bottle and bought the next.
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