Ocean near San Jose
View east on Ocean toward San Jose Avenue. Firehouse Engine 38 (demolished, now the Balboa Skatepark) and Balboa Park on left. Flying A gas station at right
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Embarcadero
Soldiers on Embarcadero; Waterfront Strike 1934
Financial District
Pacific near Columbus
Barbary Coast, view east from center of Pacific towards the bay. Following the end of Prohibition and the resumption of alcohol sales. Spider Kelly's saloon and dance hall with poster for Texas Tommy dance with Lois Feeley; Lindy Hotel 578 Pacific, Hippodrome Theater 560 Pacific. North End Auto Repair 540 Pacific.
North Beach
Sutter & Sansome
View west to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 1-line Streetcar #234; background center right: Holbrook Building 58 Sutter. Anglo and London Paris National Bank, Crocker Anglo Bank, Crocker Bank (Albert Pissis, architect) at right. At left, Haas Candy, Patrick & Co.
Financial District
Cortland near Folsom
Derailed 9-line streetcar, looking north across Cortland, from 1021 Cortland
Bernal Heights
Sansome near Pine
View north on Sansome to San Francisco (later Pacific) Stock Exchange and Royal Insurance Building, "German Flag" on negative indicates German Consulate building on Sansome.
Financial District
Sutter & Grant
Looking west on Sutter, 450 Sutter at center, Davis Schonwasser building at far right
Downtown / Union Square
3rd & Mission
Elevated view looking southeast across Mission St. from 3rd St. Rucker-Fuller Desk Company, St. James Hotel. Market St. Railway (MSRy) 26-line streetcar #916, 11-Line car behind. Williams Building at right. United Cigars store at left. Birdcage traffic signal. Downtown rail service on 26-Line ended April 16, 1938.
South of Market
Sutter & Kearny
Elevated view southwest corner to long lines of people in front of Eyre Investment Company / Sherman Clay Building (George Applegarth, architect, completed 1907). Building stands in 2021, with decorative marquees and windows removed, ground floor facade sheathed in brown stone. Hart, Schaffner & Marx clothing, Post Street Streetcar #712. Birdcage traffic signal. [44944]
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
Elevated view northeast from across Market, looking down at Muni (Municipal Railway) 6-Line streetcar #136 derailed in front of Flood Building. Large crowd watching as wrecker trucks approach from left and right. Owl Drug Store, Morgan Jewelry Co, Florsheim Shoes. Decorations on streetlamps for Lions International convention parade on July 28, 1947.
Downtown / Union Square
Mission near Richland
Elevated view northeast to streetcar #1230, 40 Interurban San Mateo line
Bernal Heights
Mission & 2nd
View west toward New Montgomery. Rialto Building, Aronson Building in distance. Bailey Paint Co. at right.
Financial District
Alemany & San Bruno Ave
View southeast, (Alemany Interchange freeways will later cross background) to cars and approaching streetcar Market Street Railway H-Line streetcar with zip stripe livery.
Bernal Heights
Fulton near Parker
View northwest across Fulton to Charter Fan Trip car #1329 (car is posed running inbound on outbound track) passing St. Ignatius Church.
Lone Mountain
Bryant & Alameda
Construction of Rainier Brewery
Mission