Taylor near Bay
Looking south on Taylor. Cable car on turntable
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Contains 1735 photos
California near Grant
View west uphill towards Nob Hill. Cable car upper center. Yamato Sukiyaki, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building at left. 720 California building at far right.
Chinatown
Bay & Taylor
Man on cable car #506 at Bay and Taylor Streets.
North Beach
Bay & Taylor
Passengers boarding cable car on turntable at Bay and Taylor Streets.
North Beach
Powell & Market
Cable car on turntable, viewed from Market Street. Woolworths. Bank of America. Glamorous woman in red coat and white pumps.
Downtown / Union Square
Valencia & 18th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south to bent cable car tracks with earthquake damage. Temporary sewer lines, several newly-constructed buildings.
Mission Dolores
Powell & Market
View north to crowd waiting to board cable car at turnaround. Woolworths in Flood Building at right #514, last original Mahoney body, scrapped in 1963.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell near California
#514. Cable car traffic controller booth on upper right.
Nob Hill
Pacific & Divisadero
View northeast to Pacific Street cable car. Conductor and gripman pose with man and dog. House behind on Divisadero built in 1887 for A.D. Moore, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The lot extended the length of the east side of the block between Pacific and Broadway. It was demolished around 1936. [June 1, 1925 San Francisco, Cal Street Cars]
Pacific Heights
Fillmore & Greenwich
Looking south to Broadway at top of hill. Fillmore counterbalance cable cars. Pedestrians, wagons, fine homes.
Union Street
Sacramento near Hyde
Apartment building at 1474 Sacramento; cobblestone street with single cable car tracks;
Nob Hill
Market & New Montgomery
[5354 Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.] Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, Niantic Hotel. Valencia Street Cable Car.
South of Market
Van Ness & Filbert
Elevated view southwest to Knight's Templar parade (with columns marching in opposite directions) on Van Ness Avenue. St. Brigid's Roman Catholic church in distance. Presidio & Ferries Union St. cable car and trailer at center right.[Knights Templar Parade, San Francisco, August 20th, 1883]
Russian Hill
3rd & Market
View northeast on Market toward 3rd Street. Chronicle building, Lotta's Fountain, Crocker Building (1891), Nucleus Hotel (with signage for The Wasp, Painless Dentists, Beamish's Shirts), Palace Hotel. Cable car, wagons and pedestrians in street. Russell's Family Shoe Store, 700 Market Building at left with signage painted on back for The Chronicle, Wicks Real Estate. [6159 Market St. from Kearny St., SF Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
California near Stockton
View east to approaching California Street Cable Railroad Co. car. In distance, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Shell Building, Russ Building. Author Thomas Mann opera house lecture poster at left. At left, 720 California St. building. At right, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building. Clunie Building with Lincoln National Life ad on west side, Sing Fat Co. In distance, Southern Pacific Building, Bay Bridge tower. Yolanda Hotel with Hotel Lafayette sign on west side, Helvetia Hotel. [California St. Cable Car Chinatown and Financial District San Francisco. Piggott 38 504]
Chinatown