Cablecar

Contains 1735 photos

Kearny & California
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Kearny & California

Elevated view west to Old St. Mary's, California House with General Arthur and Speckled Beauty cigar and oyster ads on side, Lyons Brothers sheet metal. Cable cars up hill, Grace Episcopal Church on left with bell tower added in 1890. [Calif St West from Kearny St 1890 SS-11] [F810 SS-011] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
California near Kearny
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California near Kearny

View east down California to Cable car approaching. On left, San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett, architect), German Savings and Loan Society, Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Kohl Building. On right, Safe Deposit Building with tower, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York Building beyond. Clearer version with different cropping at wnp37.02807. [California St. July 3, 1905 SS-12] [F810 SS-012] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Market near Main
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Market near Main

View west from center of Market Street near Main, showing Studebaker Carriages and Wagons at 201-207 Market Street at left. Twin Peaks in distance. Same image as wnp70.0403, different cropping, with writing at bottom. [SS-57 Market St West of Drumm 1888] [F810 SS-057] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
View W from Ferry Building
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View W from Ferry Building

View west from Ferry Building tower down Market Street. Sacramento St. and Market St. cable cars, horsecars, wagons, Call Building in distance. Ad for Rainier Beer. Tonner Duehrsen & Co. boxes in Smiths' Cash Store building 25 Market, H. Levi & Co. Wholesale Grocers, Pacific Coast Steamship Co. at Sacramento St. gore corner 10 Market, Riverside Furnished Rooms, Luning Building at Drumm St. corner. [SS-59 1896 SF Foot Market St] [F810 SS-059] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

View east across intersection to south side of Market Street. Bancroft History Building 721-723 Market, Bijou Opera House 729 Market (opened August 1888 as Bijou Theatre), Headquarters Democratic County Committee. Centre House 719 Market, Shirek & Co. Carpets 733 Market. Examiner newspaper offices at far left, on northeast corner. Freud Corset Co., New Home Sewing Machine, Volapuk Saloon 731 Market, Waldo House [SS-70 Opp Grant Ave-Mkt St San Francisco 1887] [F810 SS-070] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Stockton
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Market near Stockton

View southeast across Market to Call Building, Bancroft History Building. Water wagon, cable cars, fleet flags strung over street. Sanborn, Vail Co.. [Market St 1899 SS-71] [F810 SS-071] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Mason
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Market & Mason

View East on Market from Mason. Pacific Shirt Co., towers of St. Ann's Building, Baldwin Hotel (destroyed November 1898) at left, Clock tower of Chronicle Building in the distance. Castro Street cable car #104 at center. Same image as wnp37.02723. [Market St., East Mason St.] [F810 SS-078] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Tenderloin
Market near Stockton
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Market near Stockton

View east on Market from Stockton. Call Building, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Sanborn Vial & Co. Wholesalers, Dixon's Hatter, Midway Plaisance, Home of Burlesque. Many people walking, street sweeper. [Market St., looking E from Powell][F810 SS-095] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

Elevated view east down Market to Lotta's fountain, Masonic Temple tower, Market St cable car, Palace Hotel, Nucleus House, The People's Benefit clothing store banner on Nucleus House (Hotel). Geary Street cable car and dummy at left. Eagleson & Co. Shirts & Underwear. Same image as wnp37.01584, Taber A166. [F810 SS-105] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
McAllister & Leavenworth
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McAllister & Leavenworth

Elevated view east on McAllister toward Leavenworth from the Hall of Records. Murphy Building (Prager's Department Store) at center. Cable Car crossing McAllister from Leavenworth to City Hall Avenue. (Notably missing is the Hibernia Bank building, an empty lot here.) The two houses in the middle of McAllister between Jones and Leavenworth are, from east to west, The Waldeck lodging house at number 26, and former county tax collector and Eighth Ward supervisor Charles R. Story, who lived there since 1865. Across Leavenworth Street is the New Record lodging house, built in 1872 by owner James Cosgrove. (PF) The People's Theatre Family Resort, Yosemite House, Sterling Furniture Co. [McAllister St. SF 1890 City Hall Ave C. SS-115] [F810 SS-115] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Civic Center
Ellis & Powell
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Ellis & Powell

Elevated view north from window of Baldwin Hotel. Cable car tracks, Calvary Presbyterian Church, Trinity Episcopal Church, Temple Emanu-El. Stanford and Hopkins mansions in background left. Cable car tracks on Powell ending at Geary. Same image as wnp24.0154a, different cropping. [San Francisco from Baldwin House. S-158] [F810 SS-158] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
California near Stockton
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California near Stockton

View east to Bay Bridge in distance. California Street cable car, Grant Street pagoda towers, House of Lee, Cathay House, Clunie Building with Lincoln National Life ad on west side, Hotel Yolanda with Hotel Lafayette painted sign., Helvetia Hotel, Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery). In distance, Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop. [5-48 11050]

Chinatown
Hyde near Lombard
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Hyde near Lombard

View north to Alcatraz in distance. Powell-Hyde line cable car #17 approaching. Small cottage on right later moved or demolished, others extant 2020.

Russian Hill
Steiner & Jackson
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Steiner & Jackson

View to northeast corner past Municipal Railway (Muni) Washington-Jackson line cable car #521. Calvary Presbyterian Church in right distance. Stylishly-dressed woman at corner.

Pacific Heights
Fillmore near Broadway
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Fillmore near Broadway

View north past Market Street Railway Fillmore counterbalance line streetcar #627. Marina Middle School and bay in distance. Boy pushing bicycle up hill.

Pacific Heights