Cablecar

Contains 1735 photos

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Powell & Geary

Powell & Hyde Cable Car #526, passing Union Square

1963 Downtown / Union Square

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Bay & Taylor

View north to SF MUNI Cable Car #508 leaving turntable, rain

1949 North Beach

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Taylor near Bay

View southeast across Taylor to Cable Car #503 approaching end of line. Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church steeples in distance.

1940 North Beach

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Bay & Taylor

View southeast on Taylor to SF MUNI Cable Car #508 leaving turntable, rain

1949 North Beach

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Washington & Fillmore

View northeast across Washingto to Muni Washington & Jackson Cable Car #524, heavily decorated on front sides and top as Irwin Blood Bank Special for Red Cross Procurement Project. Car ran past the blood bank, then at Washington and Laguna Sts.

1950 Pacific Heights

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California & Kearny

View east down California to California Street Cable Car #53 about to cross Kearny. Southern Pacific Building with large S-P sign on roof in distance. Scaffolding around Kohl Building. At far left Home Insurance Company Building (around this time, Fireman's Fund) completed 1951 and demolished in 1983. Empty lot with pedestrian safety structure at 550 California, site of Occidental Life Insurance Co. Building, completed 1960. Downhill from construction site, Financial Center Building (1927). Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on side at right. (Cropped version of wnp14.1576.)

1959 Financial District

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Powell near Sutter

Powell Street between Sutter and Bush. MUNI cable car #514 descending the hill.

1974 Downtown / Union Square

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California & Drumm

View West, California Cable Cars #54, #58

1967 Financial District

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California & Drumm

View East, Southern Pacific Building, SF Muni California Cable car #58

1967 Financial District

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California near Powell

View east from center of California Street between Powell and Mason toward approaching cable car. Bay Bridge in distance. University Club at left. S-P sign atop Southern Pacific Building, Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on west wall in distance.

1959 Nob Hill

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California & Grant

View west up California to Cable Car going up Nob Hill. At left, Yamato Sukiyaki, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (later Cogswell College, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel), Mark Hopkins Hotel. At right, Sing Chong Building and Cathay House. Lanterns strung over intersection.

1959 Chinatown