Contains 1735 photos
[Zan 2496 Up Russian Hill by cable car, San Francisco] View northeast to Hyde St. Cable car ascending hill. At right, Tudor Revival residence 898 Francisco, built 1914, Clarence R. Ward and J. Harry Blohme architects, for sculptor Haig Patigian.
Russian Hill
View west to operator turning Cable Car #509 with Byllesby Shield logo, in use from late 1925 to 1938, on turntable. Bank of America headquarters (later One Powell) in background. [Zan 819 Powell St. Cable Car on its turn-table at Powell and Market Sts, San Francisco]
Downtown / Union Square
View north to Market Street Railway (MSRy) Fillmore Hill Counterbalance Car #624 and another ascending. Marina Middle School, built between 1935 and 1939 on large empty lot in distance, not yet built. [Cable Cars on Fillmore Street Hill]
Pacific Heights
View north on Grant to Cathay House (opened September, 1939), Sing Chong, crowded California Cable Car #23, Old St. Mary's Church. [Zan 2492 California St. Cable Car Chinatown, San Francisco]
Chinatown
View west to United Railroads cable car #159 on turntable; motormen posing; Golden Gate Park in background
Haight Ashbury
View east to Market St. Cable Railway Co. car #19; powerhouse and carbarn in background.
Lone Mountain
View westerly from Haight and Market, cable car tracks up Haight. Same image as wnp71.0855. [TEH816 Cor. Haight & Market T.E. Hecht]
Civic Center
View north on Hyde toward Alcatraz. Hyde St cablecar #522 in street.
Russian Hill
View southeast across California to Sing Chong Importing Co., Old St. Mary's cathedral, approaching California St. Cable Car; Southern Pacific Building in distance center, Balfour (later J. Harold Dollar) Building (built 1920), Merchants Exchange Building, Clunie Building, Hotel Lafayette, Helvetia Hotel, Sing Fat Co. with stained glass globe streetlamp in front, Lenox Apartments. [Edge of China Town No. 1925]
Chinatown
Looking Southwest. United Railroads Castro Street cable car #2; gripman and conductor in front; Western Photo Co.
Noe Valley
View east on O'Farrell to Savings Union Bank under construction, Union Trust Building; Call Building; O'Farrell cable car #51, Sorensen's Jewelers.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Union Square to Elkan Gunst Building with The Golden Pheasant Restaurant advertised on southwest corner, and large clock above corner entrance; Powell Street Cable Car #525
Downtown / Union Square
View east on O'Farrell toward Fischer's Vaudeville Theatre, Alcazar Theatre, Lunsted's Saloon. [O'Farrell St. TEH543 T.E Hecht] Call Building in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view easterly toward Market and 3rd Street. Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, Hearst Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex. Carriages, cable car, pedestrians in street. Crowd gathered at right, probably watching Kamm Building construction. [TEH563][Market St. March 23, 1905 T. E. Hecht]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view southwest across busy Market Street to Bancroft's History Building (with Morley's Billiards, Ayres' Business College, Butler-Schutze Co., D.C. Hager Tailor and McDermott Sandblast hanging platform), Spreckels Market, Dr. Holsman, Stanford Studio photographer, Goldstein & Co. theatrical supplies 733 Market, Montgomery Market, Sanborn Vail, Boston Dental College, Shreve & Barber guns & cutlery, Midway Theatre. In distance old 1887 Flood Building at 4th St. corner, Emporium. [TEH500 South side Market St between 3rd & 4th. Aug 1905]
Downtown / Union Square