Golden Gateway
Construction. View northeast from roof garden of Russ Building. Old Federal Reserve Bank at left. Embarcadero Freeway along waterfront, Treasure Island in background
Financial DistrictDemolished
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Ocean near San Jose
View east on Ocean toward San Jose Avenue. Firehouse Engine 38 (demolished, now the Balboa Skatepark) and Balboa Park on left. Flying A gas station at right
Mission Terrace
Playland Loop
Market Street Railway (MSRy) 7-line streetcar at La Playa (also Playland ) terminal, corner of La Playa & Balboa St. Sutro Heights in background.
Richmond Outer
Incinerator Demolition
15th and De Haro, View southwest toward the demolition of the Mission Creek incinerator. The 204 foot incinerator, built 1897, was demolished with 24 charges of dynamite. The case of champagne supposedly entombed in the cornerstone was not found. Brick buildings at 15th and Rhode Island in background. smokestack chimney
Showplace Square
Haight & Stanyan
View west on Haight between Shrader and Stanyan, at Haight Street Car House, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 17-line streetcar #173. Golden Gate Park in background.
Haight Ashbury
Niagara Ave
View north to Southern Pacific tracks passing Market Street Railway's Elkton Shops.
Cayuga
Folsom & 2nd
View northeast to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 28-line #750. 28-line ran from Ferry Building to SP Depot. Duplicate of wnp67.0490 with different cropping. Rail service on Line 28 ended in January 1939.
South of Market
Embarcadero & Market
Ferry Building Pedestrian Bridge. Built 1920, crossing the Embarcadero at Market.. Family crossing Bridge.
Financial District
Embarcardero & Market
Ferry Building Pedestrian Bridge. Built 1920, crossing the Embarcadero at Market.
Financial District
3rd near Minna
View north to removal of streetcar tracks, West Hotel, Penn Drugs, Peerless Theatre 148 3rd St. at left. Aronson Building, Central Tower (Call Building), Mutual Savings Bank Building, Hearst Examiner Building in distance on Market St.. Lee's Market, Hotel Argus, Williams Building on right.
South of Market
Market & Embarcadero
Elevated view southwest across ferry plaza (with landscaped center and birdcage traffic signal) from pedestrian overpass bridge to crowds on corners, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Lines Building. United Cigar Store, Mead's Coffee Shop, Co-Operative Dairy Lunch, Leighton Dairy Lunch. Alameda Cafe decoration on second building from left. Muni B-Line streetcar. Ray Benson Candy, Cigars.
Financial District
Ferry Building
Municipal Railway (Muni) E-Union streetcar #351, at its terminal just north of the Ferry Building The E-line ran lighter streetcars, known as Dinkys, to make it over the Union Street hill. This image is pre-war as the pedestrian overcrossing is still in intact.
Financial District
La Playa near Balboa
Market Street Railway (MSRy) 7-line streetcar with conductor standing in front entry, on the Playland / Balboa loop terminus. View east across La Playa toward M&M Baths. The Surf at left with 'Closed Temporarily' signs in window. Ad for 'Stage Door Canteen' at the United Artists Theater on streetcar. It ran there from late June through late September, 1943.
Richmond Outer
Sutro Baths
View north from Cliff House showing breakers and west side of Baths. (New addition at right housed locker rooms for new ice skating rink.) Point Lobos in background showing overflow from catch basin, tunnel through Point, and stairway up cliff. Marin Headlands in distance.
Sutro Heights
Fleishhacker Pool
Athletes posing with trophies at entrance on Great Highway
Lakeshore