Filbert & Van Ness
View East on Filbert from Van Ness, La Perlita Apartments at left. ( strange lens or film, image is squished horizontally on original Kodachrome slide)
Union StreetGas Station
Contains 231 photos
Geary & Presidio
B-line streetcar #141; Flying A Station
Lower Pacific Heights
Ocean & San Jose
View East on Ocean from the corner of San Jose Avenue. MSRy 12-line #1745
Mission Terrace
Geary & Presidio
View east on Geary from Presidio (before tunnel construction) Municipal Railway (Muni) B-Line streetcar #125. Associated gas station with Flying A logo on north east corner
Lower Pacific Heights
19th & Folsom
View east across Folsom near 19th Street from bottom of excavated lot. Wolfe Lumber Yard and gas station at center. Potrero Hill visible in the distance. [Excavation - PG&E lot 19th St. & Folsom St.] [dpwbook45 dpwA2138]
Mission
Pacific & Embarcadero
Texaco Station at 2 Pacific Ave and The Embarcadero, owned by Tony Mazza and Vic Estrada. Pacific Street no longer reaches The Embarcadero, stopping 2 blocks short at Front Street.
Northern Waterfront
Buchanan near Bay
3623 Buchanan, small storefront with residence behind, gas station adjacent.
Marina
Balboa & 2nd Ave
These two homes and the gas station on the corner of 2nd Avenue and Balboa Street have all been demolished for apartment buildings. In 1951 the basement of 26 Balboa, center, housed the Helene Hardin Theatrical Talent Agency.
Richmond Inner
23rd Ave & Vicente
Richfield Gas Station on NE corner of 23rd Avenue and Vicente St.
Parkside
Church & Day
View east across Church Streeet to Gene Paridy's Chevron Service Station at 1749 Church Street, on the southeast corner of Day and Church. Replaced by a 4 unit apartment building in 1961. J-Church streetcar tracks in front.
Noe Valley
Post & Webster
Frank Matthews' Mobilgas Station, 1800 Post Street, at the Northwest corner of Post and Webster. Every building in this view was demolished or moved during the redevelopment of the area.
Japantown
Masonic & Turk
Associated Gas station, 2290 Turk Street at Masonic Avenue, now the site of the Blood Centers of the Pacific (Irwin Memorial Blood Bank) which moved to this location in 1955. View east from Masonic.
Anza Vista
Howard near 2nd.
608 Howard Street. View north across Howard. This location has had many incarnations: as Dan McCarty's Livery Stable in 1884, as Indian Warehouse Supplies in 1916, and as home Nanco Incorporated in 1951.
South of Market
17th & South Van Ness
View northeast from 17th Street and South Van Ness: this gas station and the distinctive 1895 Victorian behind it at 573 South Van Ness are still recognizable. Birdcage traffic signal, Mohawk Gas, Globe Furniture Manufacturing Co.
Mission
45th Ave & Judah
Associated gas station at 45th Avenue and Judah
Sunset Outer