Contains 142 photos
View north on West Portal Ave. toward Twin Peaks Tunnel portal. Christmas decorations for Poinsettia Christmas Parade on trolley poles, West Portal School in distance. Kilpatrick's, Langendorf, Orowheat bakery, and Borden's trucks. Angelo's Pizza, Crown Pet Sales.
West Portal
Elevated view northeast from across Market, looking down at Muni (Municipal Railway) 6-Line streetcar #136 derailed in front of Flood Building. Large crowd watching as wrecker trucks approach from left and right. Owl Drug Store, Morgan Jewelry Co, Florsheim Shoes. Decorations on streetlamps for Lions International convention parade on July 28, 1947.
Downtown / Union Square
View south to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 near turntable, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes." On left Owl Drug in Flood Building.
Downtown / Union Square
View east from corner to workers turning Market Street Railway (MSRy) Washington & Jackson Line cable car #527 on turntable. Flood Building with Florsheim Shoes and Owl Drug in background. Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
View east from corner to workers pushing Market Street Railway (MSRy) Washington & Jackson Line cable car #527 from turntable. Flood Building with Florsheim Shoes and Owl Drug in background. Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view east toward Ferry Building Loop. Temporary Streetcar tracks and Ferry Tower being repaired from scaffolding (with Pacific Construction Co., 17 Spear St. sign). Ferry Drug Co. Southern Pacific Railroad office at far right. United Railroads [U01009] [Market & East Sts. looking east 10-25-06]
Financial District
Elevated view east from center of Market toward 1st Street to cars parked in the middle of the street during Municipal Railway (Muni) Strike. Parking regulations were suspended to allow cars to park on unused streetcar tracks. The strike lasted from Sunday February 17 through Saturday February 23, 1952. From left Donahue Mechanics Monument, Union Carbide in Postal Telegraph Building, Tilden Sales Building , Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building, Ferry Building, PG&E Building,
Financial District
View northeast across intersection to 9-Line Market Street Railway #1598 about to cross Southern Pacific tracks. Corner building demolished, now part of Synergy School.
Mission
View northeast across Market to Muni J-Line streetcar (another Muni streetcar with wings livery in distance). Gallenkamp's Shoes and Owl Drug Co. in Magee Building, Mutual Savings Bank building with Bank of America branch, Flannery Building with Dinty's Kitchen, Acme Beer sign and Painless Parker dentist, de Young Building with Florsheim, Hyman's Leasing and Peck-Judah ticket agency, 660 Market Building, Crocker Building, Hobart Building, Examiner Building. Banners strung across Market, possibly for military recruitment. Birdcage traffic signals. [3119 Market at 3rd]
South of Market
View east on Market to Embarcadero Freeway, Ferry Building. Weinstein Co., Club 98, Terminal Hotel, Last Resort. Southern Pacific Building at right.
Financial District
Elevated view west from Murphy Building (Jones and Market) to McAllister St., Hall of Records, City Hall before erection of dome and rotunda, City Hall Avenue. Corner of Mechanics Pavilion at far upper left. Turkish Drug at far right. Detail from stereoview card with caption "343 New City Hall, San Francisco"
Tenderloin
View north to Muni H-line #116 with wings livery, in front of Kaplan's Army Surplus. Rail service on the H Line ended on March 18, 1950.
South of Market
View west across intersection to approaching Muni 33-Line Electric Bus #712. Star Pharmacy, Din's Liquors.
Castro
View northwest across Market from southeast corner. Central Tower (Call Building) on left with Owl Rexall Drugs, Carl Wilke cafeteria, Dr. E.F. Lazarus Optometrist, Hub Theatre. In distance, Esquire and Telenews theaters, Flood Building with Woolworth's, Roos Atkins, Phelan Building with Seaboard Loans, Regal Shoes, Union Trust (Wells Fargo) Building, Bankers Investment Building with HFC Loans, Western Union, Lane Bryant, Jarman's Mens Shoes. Lundstrom's Hats, Prices.
South of Market
View southwest from center of Market to Wulzen's Pharmacy. Building at right was moved around 1917 to make way for Twin Peaks Tunnel construction (or the extension of Market Street) a short distance to 3955 17th St, corner of Hartford, where it still stands.
Castro