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Mission Street Viaduct
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Mission Street Viaduct

View northwest to Muni 14-Line #961 on the Southern end of the Mission St Viaduct at Trumbull St. St John the Evangelist Catholic Church (1893) in distance right.

Mission Terrace
Haight near Market
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Haight near Market

View northwest across Haight to 7-Line #473. (Former Market Street Railway (MSRy) unit #173 renumbered #473 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #173.)

Lower Haight
Geary & Collins
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Geary & Collins

View northeast across intersection to Municipal Railway (Muni) B-Line #131 with wings livery on Geary at Collins. Oldsmobile car dealership. 76 gas station.

Lone Mountain
San Jose Near Alemany
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San Jose Near Alemany

View southwest Market St. Railway (MSRy) 26-Line #1553 on San Jose Ave near Alemany. Associated service station and Safeway supermarket at Alemany intersection in distance. Reinstated 26-Line running between Daly City and Onondaga Ave. and Mission St. only during World War II. Site is now under the I280 Freeway and BART elevated tracks.

Outer Mission
Hyde & Ellis
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Hyde & Ellis

View north on Hyde from Ellis [Hyde St. Ellis to O'Farrell dpwbook27 dpw6688]

Tenderloin
Leavenworth near O'Farrell
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Leavenworth near O'Farrell

View north from center of Leavenworth [dpwbook27 dpw6693]

Tenderloin
Main & Howard
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Main & Howard

View North on Main from Howard Street toward Mission, Guittard Chocolate on right. [dpwbook28 dpw6833]

Financial District
McSheehy for Mayor Sign
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McSheehy for Mayor Sign

Supervisor James McSheehy for Mayor political billboard. Paid for by Adolph Uhl (later a supervisor and mayoral candidate himself.) [dpwbook33 dpw8992]

Ocean Beach
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Ocean Beach

View north to construction of Ocean Beach Esplanade, 2nd section. Concrete forms lying against seawall. Probably taken near foot of Cabrillo Street, Sutro Heights in background. [Esplanade 2d Section dpwbook31 dpw8009]

Richmond Outer
Market & Beale
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Market & Beale

View southeast across Market toward Beale and the site of the PG&E Building. (completed 1925) Collins-Hencke Candy Company on Beale [Market St. looking east toward Beale St.] [dpwbook32 dpw8596]

Financial District
Market & Stockton
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Market & Stockton

View southeast across Market near Stockton showing the streetcar safety zone in the middle of the street. Most of the buildings on the south side of Market in this view have been demolished. Portola Theatre (showing Mary Pickford in Little Annie Rooney), Humboldt Bank Building, California Theatre at right. Call/Spreckels, Hearst Examiner and Lesser Buildings in the distance. [Market at Stockton Sts] [dpwbook35 dpw10056]

Downtown / Union Square
Embarcadero & Market
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Embarcadero & Market

Elevated view southwest to streetcar turnaround / Ferry Loop and Southern Pacific Building at right. Pacific hotel at left.

Financial District
Haight & Baker
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Haight & Baker

View northwest to eastbound Market Street Railway (MSRy) 17-line streetcar #137; Queen Anne houses in background with turrets / towers still stand in 2023.

Buena Vista
Monterey  near Gennessee
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Monterey near Gennessee

View northeast across Monterey Blvd to Market St. Railway (MSRy) 10-Line #921. Mock-Tudor style house on left is 678 Monterey Blvd.

Sunnyside
San Bruno Ave near Alemany
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San Bruno Ave near Alemany

View northwest to MSRy25-line (special car on Fan Trip) #1341 (or #1241). Now site of US101 Freeway. Kunst Bros. Paint Co., Stanford Hotel signs on Bernal Hill.

Bernal Heights