Automobile

Contains 4894 photos

4th & Market
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4th & Market

View north across Market down Stockton to Roos Bros., Foreman & Clark, Muni F-Line #43. Stockton Tunnel in background.

South of Market
Montgomery & Market
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Montgomery & Market

View southeast toward 2nd Street intersection, Balboa Building, West Coast Life Insurance Building, SF Muni PCC streetcar #1135. demolition completed for 555 Market tower in background left. Underwood Building at far left.

Downtown
Judah & 45th Ave
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Judah & 45th Ave

View east to westbound Muni (Municipal Railway) N-Line PCC #1022 on Judah Street at 45th Avenue. Small businesses, including a laundromat and donut shop, at left. St. Paul's Presbyterian Church at 43rd Avenue in background.

Sunset
Market at Fulton
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Market at Fulton

View south across Market to M-Line Muni PCC streetcar #1109 passing Hittenberger's, Embassy Theatre, Strand Theatre, Kelly's Mens Wear.

Downtown
Market at Sanchez
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Market at Sanchez

View northwest on Market from Sanchez. Automobile traffic and Municipal Railway (Muni) PCC streetcar #1126 passing Beck's Motel. Corona Heights in the background right.

Castro
Market at 1st
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Market at 1st

View southeast across intersection of Market St. and 1st Street towards Sheldon Building. Municipal Railway (Muni) PCC streetcars #1108 and #1118. PG&E Building, Foster's Cafeteria in distance left.

Downtown
Market & Dolores
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Market & Dolores

View north from Dolores to south side of US Mint, SF Muni PCC streetcar #1140. California Volunteers Memorial at right. Billboard for Joe Bortin who ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1960 and 1964.

Castro
Carmel & Clayton
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Carmel & Clayton

View northeast to Kissel promotional auto covered in painted text (with 'High Gear' painted on radiator), at Carmel and Clayton. Engine Company No. 40 firehouse and Mt. Olympus in background. Firemen posing with kids. In May, 1923, as a promotion, Kissel arranged for one of its Model 55 cars to be driven from Merced to Yosemite Valley with its transmission locked in high gear. In the car were Carl Borgen, driver, L.D. Whitehurst, San Francisco sales manager, and Charles H. Holdson, pilot. This photo is from a similar test in late July, 1923 when the same car climbed Twin Peaks in low gear, driven by Borgen with Phil Sheridan, automotive editor of The Call as a passenger. Whitehurst walked beside the car during the test.

Twin Peaks
View N from Twin Peaks
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View N from Twin Peaks

View North from the North Peak of Twin Peaks, toward what would become Christmas Tree Point and parking. Dodge car on the peak, sign reads 'Car No. 12, First car shipped to California Dec 1914, now over 750,000' St. Ignatius Church, Buena Vista Park, Angel Island in the distance.

Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks Boulevard
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Twin Peaks Boulevard

View east with Packard. Market St. and Yerba Buena Island at left, Potrero Hill in distance right.

Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks Boulevard
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Twin Peaks Boulevard

View Southeast. Ten Chandler automobiles.

Twin Peaks
Ingleside Terraces
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Ingleside Terraces

Entry gate and portals at Junipero Serra and Mercedes Way

Ingleside Terraces
Ingleside Terraces
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Ingleside Terraces

View north at Entrada Court, the sundial at center. Clubhouse for Ingleside Racetrack in the background, at the time used as a sales office. Cars and people assembled for a promotional west side automobile tour coordinated by the SF Call newspaper.

Ingleside Terraces
St. Francis Wood Fountain
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St. Francis Wood Fountain

View east to well dressed group of women and a young girl, many holding floral bouquets, posed in front of fountain.

St. Francis Wood
Ingleside Racetrack
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Ingleside Racetrack

Auto Racing. Grandstand and cars spectators in the infield

Ingleside Terraces