
Market at Embarcadero
View east on Market from The Embarcadero. Southern Pacific Building, PG&E Building at left. Embarcadero freeway construction, Twin Peaks in the distance. Hotel Terminal, Mobilgas sign, Hobart Building.
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View east on Market from The Embarcadero. Southern Pacific Building, PG&E Building at left. Embarcadero freeway construction, Twin Peaks in the distance. Hotel Terminal, Mobilgas sign, Hobart Building.
Financial DistrictPlymouth and Yerba Buena with 43-line Masonic bus.
Westwood HighlandsBurlingame Hills Buses, driver and passenger.
Outside SFBurlingame Hills Bus and driver
Outside SF8-Line Muni #691 and N-Line PCC #1101, Orpheum Theatre, Civic Center BART entrance, looking east across Hyde down Market (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #291 renumbered). Del Webb's TowneHouse, later Trinity Plaza apartments, at right.
Civic CenterView southeast across Market to Muni C-Line streetcar #635 with wings livery. Palace Hotel in background. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #235 renumbered #635 after the 1944 merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni unit #235.)
Downtown / Union SquareView southeast across Market St. from Pine St. Municipal Railway (Muni) D-Line streetcar #210 in intersection. Ferry Building and Southern Pacific Building in background. Matson Lines and PG&E Buildings at right.
Financial DistrictView southeast across Market to Muni J-Line #73 with wings livery, Muni 1-Line #233. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building, Lincoln Hotel, Sunset Hotel, Bay Loan Office in background.
Financial DistrictView northwest across Market. Muni J-Line PCC #1039, Dean Building (demolished 2018) at center, St. Francis Theater on left. Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse (completed 1964) and Hotel Governor in distance on Turk. Warfield and Paramount Theaters on north side of Market.
South of MarketMuni 12-Line #758 & K-Line PCC #1027 Building on left is City College west campus auditorium, on site of Balboa Reservoir. It was built by US Navy while they used the reservoir site during WWII, and used after the war by CCSF until 1955.
Westwood ParkElevated view northwest across 5th & Mission to Old U.S. Mint. Cornices had been removed as earthquake hazards.
South of MarketView north across Market toward Sansome. The Fageol 'Super Twin' articulated bus (motor coach) ran as a demonstrator for 1 year and was sold to the Chicago Transit Authority in 1948. Only 15 were ever made. This block now the site of Zellerbach Plaza. Anglo California Trust Company Building at Sansome Street corner, Adam Grant Building, Heineman Building and Shell Building on Bush in background. Harrington's. Flags and banners strung across Market. Birdcage traffic signal.
Financial DistrictView northeast across Market St. towards Union Trust (Wells Fargo) building. H. Liebes, Livingston's in distance left. At far right, Mutual Savings Bank Building with Citizens Federal Savings signage, Chronicle building with modern cladding, later removed, Bank of America. Muni J-Line streetcar, diesel bus. Western Union, Robinson's Luggage.
Downtown / Union SquareView north to Market, Bush and Battery intersection, Crown Zellerbach building, Shell Building in background. Foster's Cafeteria.
South of MarketView northeast across Market at 10th Street to Fox Theatre, playing 'Absent Minded Professor', Gold Room cocktail bar, Riviera Snack Bar in retail space. Larkin Lane restaurant across Larkin in distance. 100 McAllister, former Empire Hotel, in distance.
Civic Center