Cablecar

Contains 1735 photos

Fillmore & Broadway
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Fillmore & Broadway

View southeast across intersection to Market Street Railway (MSRy) Fillmore Hill counterbalance cars waiting to descend the hill. Car #627 in lead, #625 behind. 22-Line streetcar behind. Car #156? at far right marked Special Car.

Pacific Heights
Polk near Bay
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Polk near Bay

View to southwest showing man posing in front of Market Street Railway (MSRy) 19-line streetcar #284 on Polk between Bay and North Point St. Galileo High School in background, and wall surrounding the school's playing field at right.

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Powell near Bush
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Powell near Bush

Powell St. cable car #511 passing The Family Club. View looking west from Anson Place alley.

Downtown / Union Square
Hyde & Beach
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Hyde & Beach

Cable car #516 making left turn from Hyde Street onto turntable site in future Victorian Park. Turntable just out of view to right. Haslett Warehouse at left.

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
California near Grant
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California near Grant

View southeast across California from Grant to California Street Cable Car ascending hill. Merchants Exchange, Clunie Building with Lincoln National Life ad on west side. Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Russ Building, Hotel Yolanda with Hotel Lafayette sign on west side and Helvetia Hotel at left Quincy Street and St. Mary's Square at right.

Chinatown
Hyde & Beach
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Hyde & Beach

Municipal Railway (Muni) double-ended cable car #38 of the O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line at terminus on Hyde Street. Haslett Warehouse in background.

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
California near Presidio
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California near Presidio

California St. Cable Car #18; looking north to Jewish Community Center

Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Jackson near Mason
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Jackson near Mason

View east on Jackson between Mason and Taylor. Cable car #521. Tracks lead to the Washington-Mason car house.

Nob Hill
Bay & Taylor
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Bay & Taylor

Cable car #510 on the turntable

North Beach
Mark Hopkins Hotel
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Mark Hopkins Hotel

Elevated view southeast across Mason & California intersection. [Mark Hopkins Hotel, Zan 1838]

Nob Hill
Bay & Taylor
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Bay & Taylor

Cable car #501 on turntable at Bay and Taylor. Passengers helping turn the car on the table.

North Beach
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View west to Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car #504 being turned by operators. [Powell St. Cable Car on its Turn-table at Powell and Market Sts. San Francisco] [Zan 2497]

Downtown / Union Square
O'Farrell near Stockton
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O'Farrell near Stockton

View east on O'Farrell toward intersection with Market and Grant. Call Building in background. Oberon Music Hall in Shiels Building (38 O'Farrell, offices and lodge halls) left of center. In the Kohler & Chase building (with Decker Bros. Piano sign) basement is site of the Belvedere Music Hall (began operations about July, 1904). The three-story building just after it is the Fire Station for Truck No. 1. Phelan Building at right. (PF) Bancroft History Building across Market St. in distance with Ayres' Business College sign. Sign on building across Market for Sarah Cowell LeMoyne in 'The First Duchess Marlborough' at the Columbia Theatre, which played there in November, 1901. (see also wnp27.7791 taken minutes apart) [O'Farrell Street San Francisco Caliufornia 1904 (Sic)]

Downtown / Union Square
Hyde & North Point
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Hyde & North Point

View north on Hyde from North Point, Hyde Street cable car approaching, Alcatraz and Angel Island in background.

Fishermans Wharf
Powell near California
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Powell near California

View south on Powell between California and Pine. Cable car #510, Sir Francis Drake Hotel and 450 Sutter at left.

Nob Hill