Gas Station

Contains 231 photos

3rd & Mariposa
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3rd & Mariposa

A.E. Kloehn Chevron Gas Station on the southwest corner of 3rd and Mariposa. Bethlehem Steel building across Mariposa, demolished in 2009 to make way for new UCSF hospital.

Dogpatch
3rd & Mariposa
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3rd & Mariposa

A.E. Kloehn Chevron Gas Station on the southwest corner of 3rd and Mariposa.

Dogpatch
Division & 10th
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Division & 10th

View north across Division past Municipal Railway H-line streetcar #3 with wings livery. Electric Supply Corporation, Harbor Plywood Corporation 540 10th St. Building at right, 290 Division (Powers & Ahnden architects, built 1924), still stands in 2021. A section of elevated freeway dominates the present view.

Mission
Geary near Presidio
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Geary near Presidio

Municipal Railway (Muni) B-line streetcar #153 with wings livery pulling out of Muni building on last day of line service. Flying A Associated gas service station at right.

Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Mission & South Van Ness
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Mission & South Van Ness

View south on Mission across S. Van Ness intersection ti 9-line streetcar and 14-line streetcar, H & L Block sportswear 1563 Mission, G. Hadicke Co. Motorola, and Firestone Tire business. Birdcage traffic signal.

South of Market
Divisadero & Fell
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Divisadero & Fell

View north on Divisadero toward Fell, past Arco gas station to northeast corner, housing Greens Pharmacy. Queen Anne building built 1888-1889 as Theodore Green Apothecary, Samuel Newsom architect. It is San Francisco Landmark #182.drug store,

Lower Haight
California & Jones
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California & Jones

View southeast across intersection to Union 76 gas station, California Memorial Masonic Temple (built 1958). Hotel Huntington in background

Nob Hill
Stockton near Sutter
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Stockton near Sutter

View north towards Stockton Street Tunnel. Municipal Railway F-line streetcar passing Dalma Garage. Hotel Navarre at left, in distance Hotel Victoria, built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel). Buildings at right demolished for Sutter-Stockton garage.

Downtown / Union Square
17th & South Van Ness
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17th & South Van Ness

[Renewed gas station] Mohawk gas station with large repurposed muffler man statue wearing Giants cap.

Mission
Folsom & 6th
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Folsom & 6th

View northeast across intersection to Market Street Railway (MSRY) 36-line #279, 'Duart Permanent Waves' advertisement, Pacific Telephone Building in the background. Signal service station with car wash, birdcage traffic signals. [Line 36 - 0279-36-03 WB on Folsom at 6th 16 June 1943]

South of Market
Geary & 2nd Ave
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Geary & 2nd Ave

View northeast across Geary between 2nd Avenue and Arguello. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) C-line streetcar #665 (renumbered Market Street Railway car #265) with Red Cross Flags. Larkins Building (former Park & Ocean Railroad Co. Geary St. Carbarn), with signage for J.F. Ormond Dodge-Plymouth, Coburn & Co. Insurance, Mobilgas station, E. Sugarman Co. [0265-C-03 WB on Geary at 2nd Avenue February 1950 car renumbered 665]

Richmond Inner
Bayshore near Oakdale
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Bayshore near Oakdale

View west across Bayshore Boulevard toward Bernal Heights. (before US101 freeway construction) Market Street Railway 25-line streetcar #274 passing Bill Weber Richfield gas station. [0274-25-01 NB on Bayshore at Oakdale 8 April 1938]

Produce Market
Monterey Near Detroit
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Monterey Near Detroit

Elevated view southwest from Monterey and Detroit. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 10-line streetcar #802 with zip stripe livery. St. Finn Barr Church and Sunnyside School in background.[0802-10-04 WB on Monterey West of Detroit circa 1940]

Sunnyside
30th Ave & Judah
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30th Ave & Judah

Magic carpet car #1003 with wings livery, on a charter, 30th Avenue and Judah Wye (junction). The car exists today at the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City.

Sunset Outer
San Jose near Alemany
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San Jose near Alemany

View southeast across San Jose Ave. toward Alemany. Northbound Market Street Railway (MSRy) 26-line Streetcar #914. This site is now covered by the I280 Freeway. Houses in the background still stand in 2023 on Regent Street [0914-26B-02 SAN JOSE AVENUE 1943]

Outer Mission