Grant & California
California Street Cable Car crossing Grant.
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Contains 1735 photos
Powell & Market
Cable Car Turntable, Cable Car #513, Woolworth's
Downtown / Union Square
California near Grant
View east on California to two cable cars passing each other, Southern Pacific Building (notably absent is S-P sign installed on roof March 1954) and Bay Bridge in background. At left, Old St. Mary's Rectory, Stauffer Chemical Co. Building, construction site for Home Insurance Co. Building, completed 1951, at Kearny corner, Financial Center Building. Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on west side at right. Old St. Mary's Cathedral at left.
Nob Hill
Powell & Pine
Washington & Jackson Cable Car #523
Nob Hill
Bay & Taylor
View northeast across Taylor to SF MUNI Cable Car #505 leaving turntable
North Beach
California near Mason
View northwest across street to California St. Cable RR Co. cable car with large 'Napa Valley Vintners' sign on roof on Nob Hill, passing the Pacific-Union Club (Flood Mansion) and Huntington Park. Grace Cathedral and Rectory on left.
Nob Hill
Powell & California
View southeast to busy intersection with three cable cars. Building at southeast corner later demolished.
Nob Hill
California & Powell
looking east. Powell Cable Car crossing. Apartment building on right corner demolished.
Nob Hill
Powell Street Cable Car
Looking south from California to approaching cable car. Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel) at right.
Nob Hill
Sacramento & Powell
View east across Powell to Market Street Railway (MSRy) cable car #20. Bay Bridge in distance.
Nob Hill
Castro near Alvarado
Looking south, Castro Cable Car #4
Noe Valley
Market near 4th
View east from center of busy Market Street. At left, original Phelan Building, Mutual Savings Bank (1902), Ferry Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building and Annex, Kamm Building (1906), Bancroft History Building, Midway Theatre.
Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Market
Elevated view north across busy Market St, horsecar crossing intersection. Many horsecars on Kearny street. Telegraph Hill in the distance. Lotta's Fountain visible behind awnings of Nucleus House on right. Signs for "Rubber Stamps & Printing Wheels" and "California Elastic Truss Co." on building across Market Street on left. Building on northwest corner of Geary & Kearny with large Dentistry sign on roof with eagle on top. Building at northeast corner of Geary & Kearny has large "Eagleson & Co. 4 and 6 Kearny St. Shirts Underwear" sign, C.N. West Electro Medical Belts sign, partially visible sign for E. Mansbach Fancy Goods, 26 Kearny, partially visible. Banners strung over Kearny for Verein Eintracht masquerade ball benefit for sufferers from East Germany. [No. 136 Kearny St.]
South of Market
Market near Montgomery
Elevated view northeast over busy street scene. Crocker Building on the left, Union Trust Building, original Hobart Building Ferry Building in the distance. Palace and Grand Hotels on the right. Cable cars, horse drawn carts, street sweeper. [16881. Market Street, looking East, just before the Earthquake]
South of Market
North Beach Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View from Union and Leavenworth Streets, Washington Square Park in distance, buckled cable car rails, men standing, rubble [13286 - One of the Sights Which Beggars Description--Telegraph Hill Looking East from Union and Leavenworth Streets, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Disaster of April 18, 1906]
Russian Hill