Market & Embarcadero
Elevated view south to people gathered for Longshoremen's Strike. Birdcage traffic signal.
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Sutter & Sansome
View west across Sansome to Municipal Railway (Muni) 2-Clement line demonstration bus, in early 1950s. Anglo and London Paris National Bank, Crocker Anglo Bank, Crocker Bank at right (Albert Pissis, architect)
Financial District
Fulton & Larkin
View northeast across Larkin to old Main Library (later Asian Art Museum), Market Street Railway bus #302 with zip stripe livery.
Civic Center
Folsom & 2nd
View northeast to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 28-line #750. 28-line ran from Ferry Building to SP Depot. Duplicate of wnp67.0490 with different cropping. Rail service on Line 28 ended in January 1939.
South of Market
Powell & Union
View southeast across Union St. to Muni E-Line streetcar with passengers boarding.
Russian Hill
Mason near Washington
View northwest across Mason outside cable car power house and car barn to Muni Cable Car #527, specially 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 as part of its campaign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines). Buildings in background still stand in 2022. Duplicate of wnp32.2915.
Nob Hill
6th & Market
Elevated view south to Market and 6th Streets on rainy day. At center is the David Hewes Building built 1908 and still stands today. (with modern cladding) Market Street Railway (MSRy) 9-line streetcar #17xx at left. Summerfield & Haines Clothiers, Owl Drugs, Walgreen Drugs. Duplicate of wnp5.51025, wnp27.2631.
Tenderloin
Taylor near Francisco
View southeast across Taylor to Powell & Mason Cable car #503, A. LaRocca & Sons seafood, 2350 Taylor. Buildings in photo extant 2019. Fence filled with election ads.
North Beach
Taylor near Francisco
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
3rd near Minna
View north to removal of streetcar tracks, West Hotel, Penn Drugs, Peerless Theatre 148 3rd St. at left. Aronson Building, Central Tower (Call Building), Mutual Savings Bank Building, Hearst Examiner Building in distance on Market St.. Lee's Market, Hotel Argus, Williams Building on right.
South of Market
Mission near New Montgomery
View east on Mission Street. The Da-Lite cafe at left. Wells Fargo Express/ Railway Express Building in distance. Birdcage traffic signal.
South of Market
Market & Embarcadero
Elevated view southwest across ferry plaza (with landscaped center and birdcage traffic signal) from pedestrian overpass bridge to crowds on corners, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Lines Building. United Cigar Store, Mead's Coffee Shop, Co-Operative Dairy Lunch, Leighton Dairy Lunch. Alameda Cafe decoration on second building from left. Muni B-Line streetcar. Ray Benson Candy, Cigars.
Financial District
Washington & Mason
Washington-Mason Car House. Cable car barn and powerhouse.
Nob Hill
Alemany & Ocean
looking toward Mission Bus Accident
Cayuga
View from Rainier Brewery
Elevated view north to Bryant and Alameda, Bryant Street Powerhouse, Fire Department Training Tower at Bryant and Division (in distance, center, torn down in the early 1950s for central Freeway construction).
Mission