Automobile

Contains 4894 photos

Market & Battery
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Market & Battery

View east. 38-line Geary bus, Greyhound Station

Financial District
Church & Market
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Church & Market

View northeast from Church and Market to inbound Municipal Railways (Muni) J-line Church Streetcar #104 with wings livery turning from Church onto Market. The building on the northeast corner of Market and Church (J.H. Wiley Furniture) was demolished and is now the site of the Safeway parking lot.

Castro
Market near Second
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Market near Second

View west from center of Market to B-line Streetcar #81, 8-line Castro trolley #762. At left, Balboa Building, Santa Fe/West Coast Life Building, Fred Bass cameras, Wagner Luggage, Sprawkins Golf Shop, Fack's night club. At right, Chancery, Hobart, Crocker, 660 Market, Chronicle Buildings. Ashe's Chevy Chase Buffet, Grant's Pipe Shop, Kauffman's Camera Mart, Brady's Tailors.

Financial District
Market & 1st
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Market & 1st

View west to Muni K-line Streetcar #157 with wings livery; Hobart, Flatiron, Hunter Dulin Buildings in background. Block at right demolished for Crown Zellerbach Building.

Financial District
Coleridge near Virginia
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Coleridge near Virginia

View north on Coleridge to streetcar (Fillmore counterbalance car) #626 going to 29th St. car house.

Bernal Heights
Market & McCoppin
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Market & McCoppin

View southeast across Market to K-line Ingleside PCC #1035, #192. Salvation Army building in background between streetcars.

Mint Hill
Church & 14th
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Church & 14th

View northwest across intersection to southbound J-line Church PCC at stop, Bank of America and St. Francis Lutheran Church in background.

Duboce Triangle
Geary & Arguello
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Geary & Arguello

View northwest across Geary to Muni B-line Streetcar #84 with wings livery. Former Park & Ocean Railroad Co. Geary St. car house built 1893, with signage for Brown Buick Co. in background.

Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Balboa & 38th Ave
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Balboa & 38th Ave

View east on Balboa from 38th Avenue, B-Line Streetcar #84 passing Dom DiMaggio's bar on the corner. Balboa Theater in the background. Cocker spaniel in the street

Richmond Outer
Van Ness & Geary
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Van Ness & Geary

view southwest across intersection to Tommy's Joynt, B-Line in background

Cathedral Hill
Van Ness near Geary
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Van Ness near Geary

View southeast across Van Ness to H-Line Streetcar #925 to City Hall. Richelieu Hotel, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Mercury, Ford and Chevrolet car dealerships. Almond Blossom Restaurant at right was the scene of a 1924 encounter with Chinatown Resident Ben Fee because they refused to serve Asians, described in Frank Chin (1972) 'Confessions of the Chinatown Cowboy'.

Cathedral Hill
Mission & Bosworth
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Mission & Bosworth

View north across Mission to Martha Hill / Mt. Davidson; 14-line Muni Mission Streetcar #849, St John the Evangelist Catholic Church on right. Rail service on this line ended in December, 1948.

St. Marys Park
Market & Fulton
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Market & Fulton

View southwest across Market to 7-line Streetcar with riders on cow catcher; Strand Theater, Hotel National (with Army and Navy Goods Store), Benetar's, Crystal Palace Market, Hotel Whitcomb, Orpheum Theater. Flags strung across Market with banner for Travel Sports and Boat Show, April 24 to May 5, Civic Auditorium. [Market St. Bet. 7 & 8 Rush Hour]

Civic Center
Fillmore & Union
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Fillmore & Union

Viewg south uphill on Fillmore to two cars on counterbalance

Union Street
Mission Street
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Mission Street

View northeast across Mission to northbound 41-line #806 streetcar with zip stripe livery and Salvation Army flags crossing the Mission Viaduct on its way from the Geneva Barn to 2nd & Market. St. Mary's Park neighborhood, Holly Park, Junipero Serra Elementary School and Bernal Heights in background. [806 Mission at Alemany]

Mission Terrace