Contains 1735 photos
View across Powell to southwest corner with Elkan Gunst Building with the Golden Pheasant Restaurant (with electric clock above corner entrance) and Techau Tavern at 247 Powell Street, Cable Car #508 crossing Geary. St. Francis Hotel with Hastings menswear store at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Cable Car #505 on the turntable, view toward Market Street.
Downtown / Union Square
Looking south on Jones. Cable car making turn from Pine onto Jones St.
Nob Hill
View east on California between Powell and Stockton. Cable car descending hill Bay Bridge under construction in distance. [California Street Hill, San Francisco]
Nob Hill
Haight Ashbury; Cole Valley; Haight Street Grounds baseball field, aka California League Grounds or League Grounds (On Stanyan, between Frederick and Waller, 1887-1895); Golden Gate Park Panhandle, cable car lines, and rare (only?) view of Laguna Seca.[6516]
Parnassus Heights
View west on Pacific between Scott and Pierce, though possibly between Divisadero and Broderick. Pacific Avenue Cable Car #51.
Pacific Heights
Looking east to SF Bay, Cable Car #22 and others.
Chinatown
View east to approaching cable car; University Club (1908, Bliss & Faville architects) and Fairmont Hotel on left. Stanford Apartments, later Stanford Court Hotel, at right.
Nob Hill
View southwest across intersection to California Cable Car Railroad Co. car on California Street. Both buildings still stand in 2020.
Nob Hill
View northeast across Embarcadero, with cable cars; smoke billowing from Ferry Boat. Ferry Station Post Office (1901-1915) at right.
Financial District
View east down California to people waiting in street for approaching cable car. University Club on corner at left. In distance left, 720 California St. building with 2 story addition, Home Insurance Co. (later Fireman's Fund) Building with Colonial tower. In distance right, construction elevator for northern addition to Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building (later Cogswell College and Ritz-Carlton Hotel). In far distance, Bay Bridge and Ferry Building tower.
Nob Hill
View south on Taylor to Powell St. Cable Car on turntable. Sailors
North Beach
Powell St. Cable Car #505 heading south, passing 800 Powell Street.
Nob Hill
Cable Car Turnaround; Washington & Jackson Sts. #512
Downtown / Union Square
View east to Powell Cable Car Turnaround. SF MUNI Powell & Mason line #510
North Beach