Automobile

Contains 4894 photos

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Market & Sansome

View looking east from Sansome street towards lower Market Street and Ferry building. Anglo-California Trust Company building at left. Underwood (Typewriter Co.) Building, 525 Market St., Hooker & Lent Building at southwest corner of 1st and Market, Sheldon Building at southeast corner, PG&E Buildings at right. Westbound Municipal Railway (Muni) L-line car #58, and two Market Street Railway (MSRy) streetcars at right. Birdcage traffic signals. Banner for Golden Gate International Exposition on street lamp post at left.

1939 Financial District

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Geary Blvd near 2nd Ave

View northwest to southbound Muni B-Line #127 with wings livery. In background, Reynolds & Seiler Nash auto dealership, 3800 Geary (in 2022, a Toyota dealership).

1956 Richmond Inner

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Geary near Van Ness

View northwest across Geary near Van Ness, Muni C-Line #644 with wings livery. Prompt Radio & Television Co. in background.

1949 Lower Nob Hill

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Geary at Van Ness

View west on Geary St. at Van Ness Ave. Muni C-Line streetcar #647 with wings livery crossing Van Ness. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #247 renumbered #647 after the 1944 merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni unit #247.)

1949 Cathedral Hill

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Market & Pine

View southeast across Market St. from Pine St. Municipal Railway (Muni) D-Line streetcar #210 in intersection. Ferry Building and Southern Pacific Building in background. Matson Lines and PG&E Buildings at right.

1949 Financial District

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Market between 1st & 2nd

View southeast across Market past Muni D-Line #80 with wings livery, C. Barrango Mannequins, 579 Market, Harmony Stores for Men 585 Market

1950 Financial District

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Columbus near Lombard

View north on Columbus toward Lombard. Left to right: Municipal Railway (Muni) 'Magic Carpet' streetcar #1002 on a fan trip; followed by Muni streetcar #1, running on the old F-line; and then Powell Street cable car #510. Most of the buildings in this view still exist in 2022 although the Entella Hotel building (with Club Lido) at Lombard has since lost its cupola.

1942 North Beach

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Southern Pacific Depot

View southeast across Townsend to Muni F-line #36, Southern Pacific Passenger Depot. Libby, McNeill & Libby canners in Harron, Rickard & McCone Building 139 Townsend (Built 1909, still standing 2021), service station, Birdcage traffic signals. [AS]

1950 South Beach

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Van Ness at Market

View north from center of intersection to Muni H-Line streetcar #85 southbound on Van Ness Ave. Godeau Funeral home at left. Tower of St. Mary's Cathedral in background.

1950 Civic Center

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Market near Drumm

View southeast across Market to Muni J-Line #73 with wings livery, Muni 1-Line #233. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building, Lincoln Hotel, Sunset Hotel, Bay Loan Office in background.

1949 Financial District

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Taraval at 24th Ave

View northeast across intersection to Muni L-Line L-Taraval #139 passing McCoppin Square.

1947 Parkside

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Market near Fremont

View southeast on Market to Muni K-Line #157 with wings livery. Williams Bros. Cutlery, Navlet's Plants, West Coast Radio-Electronics at right. PG&E, Matson, Southern Pacific and Ferry Buldings at left. see wnp14.4673.

1951 Financial District

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West Portal & Vicente

View northeast to Muni K-Line #174 with wings livery. Closed men's clothing store, top of Empire Theatre facade at right.

1952 West Portal

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17th & Castro

View east on 17th from Castro, Muni L-Line streetcar #1142

1972 Castro

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Market & Geary

View southeast across Market to Muni L-Line #175 with wings livery. Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building with California Savings & Loan in background.

1950 Downtown / Union Square