Contains 268 photos
View northeast across Geary to Municipal Railway (Mun) C-Line streetcar #203 with wings livery. Larkins Building (former Park & Ocean Railroad Co. Geary St. Carbarn), with signage for Brown Buick Co. in background. E.L Coburn & Co. Insurance, 3738 Geary at left. The B and C cars ended service on December 29, 1956.
Richmond Inner
View northwest to parked Muni M-Line #170 with wings livery. Harold's, The Commuter Restaurant, W.P. (Western Pacific) sign with feather.
South of Market
Elevated view north to new Southern Pacific Building annex at Steuart and Mission. Large S-P sign (installed on roof March 1954) atop building. At left, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop, Coit tower atop Telegraph Hill at far right.
Financial District
Elevated view north to new Southern Pacific Building annex at Steuart and Mission. Large S-P sign (installed on roof March 1954) atop building. At left, Matson Lines Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop. Texaco service station.
Financial District
Elevated view southeast, new annex at Steuart and Mission, over large parking lot toward Bay Bridge, Railway Express Agency pier, Harbor Hotel, Embarcadero, YMCA. Ferry Hotel, Audiffred Building (with Mail Box Grill and large replica mailbox sign and clock hanging above corner entrance, Rincon Annex Post Office, Texaco service station at Steuart and Mission intersection. At far left, state agriculture building, 58 Club.
Financial District
View north from Market & 8th Streets to City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902), Pioneer Monument (also Lick Monument).
South of Market
MSR 8-line, car #101 at at Ferry Loop
Financial District
Khrushchev's car headed north, Interstate I280 (I280) under construction, Bernal Heights in background left.
Bernal Heights
View south on 8th Street from Howard. Potrero Hill in the background. Blue Danube apartments (with Banner Milk ad) at left. Galland Mercantile Laundry with tall smokestack in background. Building at left still stands in modified form. (2019)
South of Market
View north on 11th Street toward Howard, Market Street in the background. Thompson Tire Co, 120 11th. at left, D.H. Rhodes & Co., paint factory 169 11th street still stands in 2022. Birdcage traffic signals. Masonic Temple at Van Ness & Market visible in background center.
South of Market
View southeast across intersection to Union Square, I. Magnin & Co., Macy's, Dohrmann's, George S. May, Western Airlines on Geary. Cable Car #509. Very large Union Pacific Railroad Billboard, Old Crow Billboard. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across intersection to approaching California Street Cable Car #11 with signage for D. Zelinsky & Sons Painters on front and top, Old St. Mary's church and rectory, Stauffer Chemical Co. building, Home Insurance Co. Building under construction at Kearny corner (1951, later Fireman's Fund, demolished 1983). Southern Pacific Building and Bay Bridge in distance right.
Chinatown
View northeast across Taylor toMuni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes."
North Beach
View southeast across Taylor to Powell & Mason Cable car #509, A. LaRocca & Sons seafood, 2350 Taylor. Buildings in photo extant 2019. Fence filled with election ads.
North Beach
View north to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 on turntable, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann.
North Beach