21st & Castro
#7 cable car of Market Street Railway with cow catcher and American flags. Neighborhood Stores Inc. grocery on corner.
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Market & Grant
Elevated view southeast across Market Street, to Hearst Examiner Building under construction, Call Building, Palace Hotel. Montgomery Market, Swan the Painter, The Oxford House 719 Market. Ettinger's Fringe Factory, New Creamerie Restaurant, Butler-Schutze Co., Whitaker & Ray Books in Bancroft History Building at right. [8703 Claus Spreckels Building, S.F. Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 3rd
View west at G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) arch. Wagons, horses, and cable car visible.
South of Market
City Hall
View northwest to south colonnade section of old City Hall complex, before construction of dome atop this structure completed in 1897. View across City Hall Avenue, which no longer exists. Omnibus Cable Railroad Car #12. Same image as wnp71.1571, different cropping.
Civic Center
Old Civic Center
View west from City Hall Ave & McAllister to Hall of Records, City Hall (before dome constructed), Mechanics Pavilion (1882) in distance on left, McAllister St. on right. No cable car tracks on City Hall Ave., which were added in 1889.
Civic Center
Ferry Building
Looking south on Embarcadero. Auto tunnel at lower right was there from 1920-1955. Muni Railway E Car #351, built in 1922.
3rd & Market
Elevated view east on Market to large Knights Templar hanging decoration over intersection. Large electric car crossing, these cars only had hand brakes but no air brakes so they had a lot of accidents and only lasted about 10 years. Chronicle Bldg., Crocker Bldg., Union Trust bldg., Palace Hotel, and Nucleus block.
Downtown / Union Square
California & Presidio
Looking East toward downtown. Jackson Street Cable Car. Turntable.
Presidio Heights
Leland Stanford's Mansion
View south across California Street to Leland Stanford, Sr. Mansion (later site of the Stanford Court Apartments and Stanford Court Hotel). S.C. Bugbee and Son, architects. Mark Hopkins mansion at right. Spires of Temple Emanu El on Sutter Street in distance left.
Nob Hill
7th & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Market to ruins of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building after the earthquake and fire. Its replacement opened on the same site in June, 1910. [Miles Bros. #127]
Tenderloin
Old Ferry Building
Elevated view northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building with carriages, cabs, and cable cars in front. Cable car #13 of Market Street Cable Railway Co on turntable. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). [San Francisco Ferry Landing. A. J. McDonald]
Financial District
Old Ferry Building
Elevated view northeast to group of men and a few women, marching band, cable cars, and horse cars. Men are mostly in uniforms or Odd Fellows costumes in front of original Ferry Building. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). Valencia Street #18 cable car on turntable at center. Likely on the occasion of the arrival of IOOF Grand Sire John H. White on October 3, 1887. [Odd Fellows Receiving 'Grand Sire' at Ferry Landing. Foot of Market St., S. F. CAL. A. J. McDonald]
Financial District
Chronicle Building
Elevated view northeast to the Chronicle Building at the corner of Market, Kearny and Geary showing Lotta's Fountain, Nucleus Hotel, tower of Masonic Temple. Crocker Building (1891) not yet built. 700 Market building at left, California Hotel and Theatre (1889) in distance beyond [344 The Chronicle]
South of Market
Montgomery & Market
Elevated view northwest across Market to Crocker Building, at left Chronicle Building, 700 Market building. At right, west up Post St., steeple of First Congregational Church in distance. Utility poles with many wires and crossbars. [Crocker Building, Cor Post, Market & Montgomery Streets]
Financial District
Palace Hotel
[303 Palace Hotel] Grand Hotel on left. Market Street cable cars.
South of Market