Cablecar

Contains 1735 photos

Haight & Divisadero
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Haight & Divisadero

Crane Car and Workers on Haight Street Removing Cable Car Tracks for Replacement with Electric Streetcar [Haight east from Devisadero] - United Railroads [U01043]

Buena Vista
O'Farrell near Stockton
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O'Farrell near Stockton

1906 Earthquake and Fire, men clearing debris in street. View West on O'Farrell from Stockton Street. Men working, ruins of Delmonico restaurant at right [O'Farrell St. from Stockton] "Right side: Fischer's Theatre - 122 O'Farrell, Alcazar Theatre - 116 O'Farrell, Delmonico Restaurant - 110 O'Farrell. Left side: Orpheum Theatre - 119 O'Farrell."

Downtown / Union Square
Jones & Golden Gate
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Jones & Golden Gate

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Jones from Golden Gate, cable car tracks, Flood Mansion and Fairmont Hotel in distance right [Jones St. From Market (Sic)]

Tenderloin
Clay & Kearny
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Clay & Kearny

Elevated view northeast to track work. Cable car line with its innards exposed. Cable car track crossing a street car track. Near site of the first cable car turntable. McDonough Bros. Bail Bonds on northeast corner. - United Railroads [U00312]

Chinatown
Sutter & Kearny
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Sutter & Kearny

View west on Sutter from center of intersection of track work. In the distance are two Sutter Street cable cars. - United Railroads [U00226]

Downtown / Union Square
Polk & Sacramento
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Polk & Sacramento

Cable Car Crossing. Wide gauge tracks on Polk Street (5-ft) while the tracks on Sacramento were narrow gauge (3-ft). Looking north. - United Railroads [U00296]

Polk Gulch
Sutter & Grant
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Sutter & Grant

View East on Sutter From Grant (Dupont) toward Kearny. Busy street scene. - United Railroads [U00655]

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Montgomery
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Sutter & Montgomery

View west up Sutter Street from Montgomery to Kearny. On left is the Lick House, a hotel. Sutter Street Cable Car. Nathan-Dohrmann & Co. store with street clock in front at right. - United Railroads [U00656]

Downtown / Union Square
9th & Brannan
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9th & Brannan

View north on 9th, Lower end of 9th Street and Brannan Post earthquake. Cable car tracks and street buckled. Top of City Hall dome background right- United Railroads [U00820]

Showplace Square
Hayes & Laguna
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Hayes & Laguna

View West from center of intersection. Men watch steam roller prepare track bed. Replacing one side of street, debris along the left. Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church at Buchanan in distance. Hayes Valley Pharmacy building at right (NW Corner) shows major fire damage. [Reconstruction Hayes St.]- United Railroads [U00894]

Hayes Valley
Clay & Larkin
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Clay & Larkin

Getting ready to open the Clay & Sacramento Line] Looking NE at Clay & Larkin Looking at Street Construction having to do with the rearrangement of the cable car line. - United Railroads [U01526] The Larkin Saloon

Polk Gulch
Ellis & Webster
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Ellis & Webster

View west on Ellis toward Webster, Cable car tracks which had been paved over. Steel arch at Fillmore intersection in distance, Calvary Cemetery on horizon. Corbett's Poolroom, Journeay's Saloon, 1500 Ellis. - United Railroads [U01812]

Western Addition
Sacramento near Waverly
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Sacramento near Waverly

View east from center of Sacramento above Waverly toward Grant, Chinese Baptist Church (later First Chinese Baptist Church) on left, toward the Ferry Building, Sacramento Clay Cable Car line. Poster ads for MJB Coffee, Lindholms Furniture 573 Market, Calegari's Pharmacy - United Railroads [U02526]

Chinatown
Sacramento near Battery
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Sacramento near Battery

[Sacramento Street East from Sansome Street] Raising the track. Ferry Building in distance. Posters for theater attractions at left. Gabriel-Meyerfeld Co. printers, 311 Battery- United Railroads [U03932]

Financial District
Baldwin Hotel
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Baldwin Hotel

Elevated view north up Powell from Market. Cable cars and carriages. Baldwin Hotel burned in 1898, now the site of the Flood Building. In distance left, Calvary Presbyterian Church (later site of the St. Francis Hotel), Stanford and Mark Hopkins Mansions. [McDonald. The Baldwin.]

Downtown / Union Square