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View across intersection towards northwest corner. SF Muni Washington Jackson line Cable Car #521 with ad for Hilo Hattie with Harry Owens Orchestra at the St. Francis Hotel and another behind wait as Muni streetcar #217 passes. New Fillmore Grocery at left. All buildings in background extant in 2021.
Pacific Heights
View west on Washington between Buchanan and Laguna. Muni Washington & Jackson Cable Car #521 with ad for Omar Khayyam's at O'Farrell and Powell. Alta Plaza in background.
Pacific Heights
Elevated view northeast to abandoned Irwin Mansion on corner after May 5, 1956 fire. Municipal Railway (Muni) Cable Car #526 in foreground.
Pacific Heights
View north on Powell between Post and Sutter. Two Cable Cars. Detail from wnp36.02585, dpwbook29 dpw7162.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast to Cable Car #53 at end of line. Hub Theatre, Stanford Jewelers, Schwabacher-Frey, Greyhound, Grant Market and Pacific States Savings and Loan Co. Corner of Phelan Building at right. Banners strung over Market Street. Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on O'Farrell from Grant. Cable Car at end of line. Columbia Theatre in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View north on Hyde toward Hyde St. Pier. Three cable cars of the O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line waiting at terminus at Hyde and Beach Streets. Buena Vista Cafe on left. Haslett Warehouse behind cable cars. Alcatraz in distance behind sailing ship 'Balclutha' (then called 'Pacific Queen') tied up at Hyde St. Pier. (Superior copy of wnp5.51058)
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View south on Hyde toward California. Cable Car Powerhouse on Hyde across California (now demolished). Women in street boarding O'Farrell Jones and Hyde St. cable car. Conradi's Fountain Drugs, Hyde St. Market, Young's Cafe.
Nob Hill
Collision between auto and Cable Car #53.
Tenderloin
Night view south on Jones toward Market. Final nighttime run of O'Farrell and Jones Cable Car, decorated in black crepe and operated by Conductor Ulysses Taylor and Gripman Roy O. Sydney. United Artists Theatre, Hotel Federal, Anglo California Bank in background. The 5 block Jones Street Shuttle had run for 53 years between Jones and O'Farrell. Riders sang a special tune, "God Save Our Cable Cars," to the tune of "My Country 'Tis Of Thee".
Tenderloin
View east on California near end of line. Southern Pacific Building in background.
Financial District
View northeast cross California St to Cable Car #15 going uphill between Grant and Stockton. 720 California, then Hartford Insurance Building, on left, Cathay House restaurant, Old Saint Mary's cathedral and rectory, Financial Center Building, Southern Pacific Building in distance.
Chinatown
View west on California from the Cable Car. Hudson Dealer on left. Grace Cathedral in distance.
Pacific Heights
Cable Car #12 outbound. View northeast across intersection. Gas station. Three Victorian homes on left still stand. Union Oil service station on corner. Temple Sherith Israel in background right.
Lower Pacific Heights
View northeast from intersection of California and Divisadero. Cable Car #14. Victorian buildings, most still stand.
Lower Pacific Heights