Contains 371 photos
View west on Sutter from Powell. Empty lots on NW & SW corners. Hotel Regent. [Sutter Street and Powell Street Driscoll Case] J.J. Driscoll sustained a fractured skull while trying to board a streetcar. United Railroads [U02826]
Downtown / Union Square
View east to north side of block. Hotel Noble (Abby Hotel in 2018), Hotel Geary (Adante Hotel in 2018), F. Sherman Furs, Tiejen's Cocktails (High Tide bar in 2018). Hotel York (The Alise in 2018) and El Cortez Hotel (Hotel Adagio in 2018) in distance.
Tenderloin
View north to Market Street Railway streetcar #1241, likely on fan trip, approaching Alemany Boulevard. Billboard for Stanford Hotel, fence sign for Kunst Bros. Paints on edge of Bernal Heights.
Bernal Heights
View northeast over site of future California Flower Market. Political signs include 'Christopher for Mayor,' 'Ertola for Supervisor (Charles A. Ertola, Supervisor 1954-1964),' , Halley for Supervisor and Reilly for mayor. Coca-Cola sign. Pacific Telephone
South of Market
View north to Bernal Heights in background, Doidge-Koren Paints. Municipal Railway H-line streetcar #55.
Portola
View northeast to Bernal Heights. Municipal Railway H-line streetcar #22 with wings livery approaching, another streetcar behind. Kunst Bros. Paint Co. sign painted on fence in background, Dr. Pepper billboard.
Bernal Heights
View southeast past Municipal Railway R-line trolley bus #506 and off-street turnaround. St. Anthony of Padua church in background.
Mission
Market Street Railway (MSRy) 25-line streetcar #855 with zip stripe livery passing by while rail fan takes photo.
Bernal Heights
View northwest across Polk to Royal Theatre, west side of Polk between California and Sacramento. Swan Oyster Depot, See's Candies, Citizens Savings [RS1217 Royal Theatre May 1975]
Polk Gulch
View northeast across Geary between 2nd Avenue and Arguello. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) C-line streetcar #665 (renumbered Market Street Railway car #265) with Red Cross Flags. Larkins Building (former Park & Ocean Railroad Co. Geary St. Carbarn), with signage for J.F. Ormond Dodge-Plymouth, Coburn & Co. Insurance, Mobilgas station, E. Sugarman Co. [0265-C-03 WB on Geary at 2nd Avenue February 1950 car renumbered 665]
Richmond Inner
Elevated view southwest from Monterey and Detroit. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 10-line streetcar #802 with zip stripe livery. St. Finn Barr Church and Sunnyside School in background.[0802-10-04 WB on Monterey West of Detroit circa 1940]
Sunnyside
Elevated view south from Monterey and Detroit. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 10-line streetcar #802 with zip stripe livery. Balboa High School in background. [0802-10-05 WB on Monterey at Detroit 1942]
Sunnyside
View east on Balboa to large crowd around Market Street Railway (MSRy) 31-Line Streetcar #970 at the end of the line on opening day. Flags draped from utility poles. Houses at right still stand in 2023. [OPENING DAY 31 LINE 15 May 1932] [U13454]
Richmond Outer
Northwest corner of 14th & Valencia, aftermath of a suspicious arson fire at the Branding Iron Tavern, 298 Valencia
Mission Dolores
Cars in traffic passing modified sign reading 'You'd be Homeless Now'