Contains 4894 photos
View southeast across Powell to stopped Powell & Mason Cable Car #509 with poster ad for 'Voice of the Turtle at Geary Theatre. Conductor pulls track switch lever in street at center. Buildings in view still stand in 2020. Garage at left is now Chinese Hospital Parking Garage.
Nob Hill
View south to southbound Municipal Railway (Muni) cable Car #525, beginning to ascend Hyde Street.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View northwest across intersection to 14-Line #1583, El Capitan Theater, Granat Bros. Jewelers at left, El Capitan Theatre at right.
Mission
View Southwest along Embarcadero to Bay Bridge, Sherman-Williams sign, YMCA, Harbor Hotel, Audiffred Building, 28-Line Streetcar #729
Financial District
View east from center of Market St. to Ferry Building. Buses waiting in front. Port of San Francisco sign.
Financial District
View northeast across Polk to 19-line Polk car #815 at terminus. Yes on 19 and Islam Shriners circus poster for show at Civic Auditorium. Ghirardelli factory in background.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View north to SF MUNI Cable Car #508 leaving turntable, rain
North Beach
View northeast across Washingto to Muni Washington & Jackson Cable Car #524, heavily decorated on front sides and top as Irwin Blood Bank Special for Red Cross Procurement Project. Car ran past the blood bank, then at Washington and Laguna Sts.
Pacific Heights
View southeast across Townsend to Muni Original F-line #11 with wings livery, Southern Pacific Passenger Depot with wooden scaffolding on east (front) face. Libby, McNeill & Libby canners in Harron, Rickard & McCone Building 139 Townsend (Built 1909, still standing 2021), Union Oil service station, Clark Bros. Motor Transport System, Birdcage traffic signals, Muni 27-line #0190 bus in distance left. [AS]
South of Market
View east to Muni 31-line Balboa streetcar #981 westbound on "Balboa Dip".
Richmond Outer
View southeast across Geary & from Boswell (intersection no longer exists) to Fillmore Auditorium, Beth Israel Synagogue. Muni B-Line #153 with wings livery, last day of service.
Western Addition
View southwest across Mission to streetcar #817, Hotel Grand Southern, T.J. Topper Coffee Urns 1089 Mission, Wicx-Merit Gloves 1085 Mission St., Hotel Grand Southern, last day. Rail service on Mission ended in mid-January 1949.
South of Market
View southeast down Mission to 11-Line Hoffman Streetcar #838 with wings livery on last day of service of line. Hotels Thomas & Hale. Chronicle Building, Pacific Telephone Building at background left. Tall building at center is the California Casket Co. Building, 965 Mission St., Albert Pissis Architect, built 1906.
South of Market
View southwest across Mission to streetcar #1237 with wings livery, Hotel Grand Southern, T.J. Topper Coffee Urns, 1089 Mission, Wicx-Merit Gloves 1085 Mission. Rail service on Mission ended in mid-January 1949.
South of Market
View southwest across Mission to streetcar #817, Hotel Grand Southern, T.J. Topper Coffee Urns 1089 Mission, Wicx-Merit Gloves 1085 Mission St., Hotel Grand Southern, last day. Rail service on Mission ended in mid-January 1949. Last day 43.
South of Market