Contains 1735 photos
[TEH515 Market st. below Montgromery Oct. 3, 1905. T. E. Hecht] Elevated view northeast across busy Market Street from Palace Hotel to Union Trust (later Wells Fargo) Building (demolished 1967) and original Hobart Building with Postal Telegraph Co. office. Grand Hotel at far right.
South of Market
View east to Muni Cable Car #57. Weinstein Co. store, 110 Market, Santa Marina Building 112 Market. Southern Pacific Building in background.
Financial District
View southeast to O'Farrell Jones & Hyde St. Street Cable Car #48. These were double-ended cars and did not need a turntable. Their terminus was on Hyde Street at Beach.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Looking west; California Street Cable Car Co. #6; sailor posing
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
View east. California Street Cable Car Co. cable car on O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line. Safeway store, Shanghai Chop Suey.
Tenderloin
View northeast across intersection to approaching California Street Cable Railroad Co. car on O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line. In background, Omar Khayyam's, Ahrens Bros. Pies, Bakery Products, St. Marlow Hotel, Macy's. In distance, Central Tower (former Call Building) and Kamm Building on Market Street. Omar Khayyam's is in a 1906 building, redesigned in 1933 in Moderne style.
Downtown / Union Square
California Street Cable Car Co. "Sausalito Ferry" directional sign
Russian Hill
View west on O'Farrell near Powell, O'Farrell Cable Car #39 Joe Ruben's Haircutting Shop, Hotel Spaulding, Alcazar Theater (showing 'Gaslight' and 'Between Two Worlds'), Mylans Homeopathic Pharmacy 222 O'Farrell, Hotel Waldorf in the distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view east to Grant pagoda buildings, Old St. Mary's cathedral, Old Federal Reserve Bank, Murphy Building, Financial Center Building (opened 1927, later Omni Hotel), Alaska Commercial Building, Yerba Buena Island, Bay, Southern Pacific Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Clunie Building, Hotel Lafayette.[looking down on California st.]
Chinatown
Elevated view northwest toward Portsmouth Square, North Beach & Mission horsecar, St. Francis Church (Vallejo near Columbus, then Montgomery Avenue) in the distance. Terminal of the Clay Street cable car line at left. [No. 452 Kearney (Sic) street Plazza (Sic), SF]
Chinatown
Elevated view west on Geary past Geary Street cable cars (started service February 1880), Lotta's Fountain. 'Red Rubber Stamps' sign on 700 Market St. building, Bradley Rulofson Photograph Gallery, large 'Dentistry' sign on roof of building on northwest corner of Geary and Kearny with eagle atop. Calvary Presbyterian Church (site of St. Francis Hotel) in background center. [No.479 - Geary Street from Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view west on Clay. Portsmouth Square at right, Portsmouth House at northwest corner of Clay Street and Brenham Place, Fire house, with tower at top right. Variant of wnp24.224a.
Chinatown
View north to Cable Car #27 ascending Nob Hill. Autos and pedestrians in street. Fairmont Tower in distance.
Nob Hill
Municipal Railway (Muni) conductor on a Hyde Street cable car, Buena Vista bar at Hyde and Beach visible through window.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Washington & Jackson Cablecar #519
Downtown / Union Square