Contains 371 photos
View northwest to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 25-line Streetcar #287 with zip stripe livery, Bernal Heights in the background left, sign for Kresteller Plymouth DeSoto painted on fence on hill. Doidge-Koren Paint Co. behind streetcar in distance. The whole view is now dominated by the Alemany Interchange, US101 and I280 Freeways
Portola
View northeast across Market from First St., westbound Municipal Railway (Muni) 8-line Streetcar #206. "Join Now-The New Regular Army" ad on side.
Financial District
View east, Municipal Railway (Muni) L-line Streetcar #156 with wings livery and Red Cross Flag, Taraval St. westbound at 41st Ave. Golden State Ice Cream.
Sunset Outer
View northeast across intersection to Municipal Railway (Muni) F-line Streetcar #35 with wings livery. All 4th Street buildings in this view now demolished. Hotel Margaret.
South of Market
View easterly on West Portal Avenue from 14th Avenue. Municipal Railway (Muni) Streetcar #1109 Kerman Co. Carpets, Renie's Liquors, Safeway, Homestead Savings, Shell service station.
West Portal
View east on McAllister from Polk. Municipal Railway (Muni) streetcar 5-line #104 outbound. State Building at left. Main Library at right. Empire Hotel and Hotel Astor in the distance.
Civic Center
View northwest toward US101 Freeway, a portion still being built, crossing Alemany Boulevard, with Bernal Heights in background, Bayshore Boulevard in foreground. Alemany Farmer's Market site at far left. Greenhouses on Cortland to right of center in distance.
Apparel City
View west from the Ferry Loop, with landscaped area in center with Muni starters kiosk, towards Market and Sacramento, The Loop Army-Navy Store, Joe Harris Naval Uniforms billboard. 2-line Streetcar #242, with Red Cross flag and signage on front entering the Ferry Loop. Birdcage traffic signal. [Ferry 1948]
Financial District
View northeast across intersection to Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line streetcar #204 and unidentified PCC. Dick's at the Beach and 7UP sign at left
Sunset Outer
Elevated view north on Potrero from bluff above Army Street (now Cesar Chavez), before construction of US101 Freeway. James Rolph Playground at left. Site of Potrero del Sol Park at right. Good Samaritan Community Center, Borden Dairy Delivery Co. building at center. S.F. General Hospital, Potrero Hill in distance right. Bus shelter at lower left. [Looking down Potrero Ave from Peralta St.]
Peralta Heights
SF PCC Muni outbound, Market & Van Ness. Gene Compton's Cafeteria (Now demolished), Fox Theater in distance.
South of Market
Municipal Railway (Muni) PCC L-Line #1132 inbound exiting Twin Peaks Tunnel East Portal. Pepsi and Belfast Water billboards at Collingwood.
Castro
View north to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 on turntable, 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. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes."
North Beach
View northwest across entrance ramp to Municipal Railway (Muni) J-line streetcar #111 with wings livery in front of Transbay Terminal. The Commuter Restaurant at right. Skaggs-Stone General Merchandise, Veteran's Shoe Repair, Rainier Krausen beer billboard with clock. [M0111-J 01 1950s]
South of Market
View looking southwest across Union Square. Dewey Monument at center, St. Francis Hotel at right. Elkan Gunst Building beyond Dewey Monument.
Downtown / Union Square