San Bruno Ave near Alemany
Market Street Railway (MSRy) 25-line streetcar #855 with zip stripe livery passing by while rail fan takes photo.
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Polk near California
View northwest across Polk to Royal Theatre, west side of Polk between California and Sacramento. Swan Oyster Depot, See's Candies, Citizens Savings [RS1217 Royal Theatre May 1975]
Polk Gulch
Clement & 5th Ave
Vandalized advertisement billboard for Camel Cigarettes, with anti smoking graffiti
Richmond Inner
3rd & Natoma
View north on 3rd Street. Peerless Theatre at left showing 'Ridin the Wind', M.A. Gunst Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), built 1907, with large painted sign for Neustadter's Overalls and Work Shirts. Aronson Building, Call Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Hearst Examiner Building in distance. [Peerless Theatre 1925 Third Street View]
South of Market
18th & South Van Ness
View northeast across South Van Ness at 18th Street. Market Street Railway 35-line streetcar #269, passing St. Charles Barbershop. The corner building still stands, but most of the east side of this block has been demolished.(2019). Billboard for defeat of Prop. 1, controversial 'Ham and Eggs' pension proposal, defeated in 1939. [0269-35-06 SB ON SOUTH VAN NESS CA 1939]
Mission
Monterey Near Detroit
Elevated view southwest from Monterey and Detroit. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 10-line streetcar #802 with zip stripe livery. St. Finn Barr Church and Sunnyside School in background.[0802-10-04 WB on Monterey West of Detroit circa 1940]
Sunnyside
Monterey & Detroit
Elevated view south from Monterey and Detroit. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 10-line streetcar #802 with zip stripe livery. Balboa High School in background. [0802-10-05 WB on Monterey at Detroit 1942]
Sunnyside
Balboa Near 30th Ave
View east on Balboa to large crowd around Market Street Railway (MSRy) 31-Line Streetcar #970 at the end of the line on opening day. Flags draped from utility poles. Houses at right still stand in 2023. [OPENING DAY 31 LINE 15 May 1932] [U13454]
Richmond Outer
Unknown Location
Billboard being replaced on apartment building, possibly south of Market
Irving near 23rd Ave
North Side of Irving between 23rd and 24th, Sunset Show Store, 2218 Irving. 'Poll Parrot Shoes'
Sunset Outer
Irving near 22nd Ave
View east on Irving between 22nd and 23rd, Pacific 5 & 10, 2131 Irving. Lawton Pet Shop
Sunset Outer
10th near Minna
Mohrdick Electric, 135 10th Street
South of Market
Folsom & Essex
Billboard in front of Transbay Terminal ramp and Embarcadero Freeway
Rincon Hill
California near Kearny
View northeast across California Street between Grant and Kearny to cable car #2., behind is the north side of the street where almost all buildings were demolished. Stauffer Chemical Company building before later facade replacement (later site of Hartford Building at 650 California, Squire Hotel, States Hotel, Financial Center Building (1927) at center, later Omni Hotel. At far right, Clunie Building with Lincoln National Insurance ad on west wall. In distance, Southern Pacific Building and Bay Bridge.
Chinatown
Market & 9th
View southwest across Market toward the Merchandise Mart, which opened in August, 1937. Billboard advertising Sunkist Oranges.
Civic Center