Contains 1735 photos
Elevated view southwest from center of Market toward Montgomery and New Montgomery. Grand Hotel (with Hall's Safe & Lock Works 609-611 Market and Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Freight and Ticket Office 613 Market) and Palace Hotel at left, Crocker Building at right, Call Building and Chronicle Building in the distance. Castro Street cable car #102 at center. [No. 680 Market St. from Montgomery St. west]
Financial District
View west on California from across Sansome. Left side Fireman's Fund, Insurance Exchange Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Clunie Building. On right, Bank of California, two California Street cable cars #23 at center. Dash signs read 'Exposition via Hyde and Union'
Financial District
Elevated view west toward Nob Hill from a building on California St. between Kearny and Montgomery. California Street at center, Old Saint Mary's Church, Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brockelbank Apartments in background. Pine Street wing of Metropolitan Life Insurance Building under construction. [California Street Hill Piggott Photo]
Financial District
Elevated wideangle view southeast from Post and Powell across Union Square. Powell Street cable car #518 at right.[11416]
Downtown / Union Square
View southwest from California and Market. California Street cable car #14 at terminal. Advertisement for Pope & Talbot centennial on top of cable car. Matson Building, PG&E Building, Fife Building in background.
Financial District
View northeast across California between Hyde and Leavenworth. California Street cable car in background. Enterprise Garage at 1350 California at left demolished.
Nob Hill
View east on Market toward Call Building. Midway Plaisance 'Big Show Burlesque', Sanborn Vail & Co. Dixon's Hatter & Furnisher, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Lion Drug Co. listed in City Directories 1901-1904
Downtown / Union Square
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 wnp27.7594 taken minutes apart)
Downtown / Union Square
Rear Entrance to the United Railroads Turk and Fillmore car barn. Fillmore counterbalance car #648 (the second #648) pictured after an accident. Accident Report 6100-19 - United Railroads [U06793] (Broken - 2 pieces)
Western Addition
View west on Fulton from Stanyan showing Park House, a saloon on the north side of Fulton Street, located on the present alignment of Stanyan. Golden Gate park at left, United Railroads cable car tracks, Fulton Chutes at 10th Avenue in the distance. [U00182] (Stanyan Street was later re-aligned to its current configuration. Original Stanyan is visible at far right.)
Lone Mountain
View west on Fulton from 5th Avenue showing Geary, Park and Ocean cable car with horse in the distance. Park Riding Academy with tower at right. United Railroads Accident Report 691 Mrs. W L Hodgkins [U03417]
Richmond Inner
California Cable gripman in old style uniform (In 1934 Carmen's Union forced the company to update their uniform, uniforms required by company up to 1934 were of the 1880s style and probably dated to the 1870s - Smallwood) (broken and taped)
Men investigating damaged cable car in California Street Cable Barn at Hyde and California Streets.. [California Street cable car auto wreck December 18th, 1930]
Nob Hill
View north on Jones at Pine to California St. Cable Railroad Co. O'Farrell and Jones cable car #38 turning onto Jones. Grace Cathedral, Rear of Grace Cathedral, Chambord Apartments, and Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, Architect Albert Larsen) in the background left. Store on right corner has since been demolished. (AS)
Lower Nob Hill
View north on Hyde St toward Beach on a foggy day. Cable car of the O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line at terminus on Hyde St. Buena Vista Cafe at left, Hyde Street Pier in the background. Before the cable car lines were consolidated, and the Powell-Hyde line was created in 1957, there was no turntable at this location. Double-ended California Street-style cable cars were used on the line.
Fishermans Wharf