Huron & Sickles
Southwest corner of Huron and Sickles, building still stands in modified form (2020). Men installing telephone lines at Verdi Grocery, Pacific Telephone Co. horse cart in front of shop.
Outer MissionHorse
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Belvedere near Haight
View north on Belvedere toward Haight Street. Moving a building using horse, block, and tackle. This structure and the one to the left were moved to an unknown location to make room for the bank building (then San Francisco Savings & Loan) now on the corner.
Haight Ashbury
Market near Sutter
Elevated view southeast across Market to men on horseback, military band. Sheldon Building and Hooker & Lent Buildings at 1st Street corner at left. Plymouth Cafeteria 509 Market, Hirschfelder & Meaney, Pittsburg Aluminum Co., Sherwin Williams Paints, Underwood Building 525 Market. All buildings in view have been demolished. [Preparedness Day Parade July 1916]
Financial District
McAllister near Fillmore
View northwest across McAllister to line of delivery wagons, L. Dresner the Tailor 1188 McAllister, Oyster and Chop House. Some or all of the men posing at right are very likely the same ones in front of the Davis Theatre (in distance left) in wnp26.1779 and wnp26.1728. Signage on the Davis Theatre indicates this was taken on or around the same date as wnp26.1728. [79]
Western Addition
Ellis & Fillmore
View southeast across Ellis toward Fillmore. showing telephone line construction, people posing in horse-drawn wagon. Harvard Dental Parlors 1358 Fillmore, The Carnation, Frank Bros. Clothing, Alfred Lilienfeld & Co. Tailors. 1363-1365 Fillmore. [S.E. Corner Fillmore and Ellis Streets - Aerial Construction 77]
Western Addition
Unknown Location
View down alley to loading dock with horse teams. Possibly rear of a Pacific Telephone building on Mission Street.
Minna Near New Montgomery
141 Minna Street, just west of New Montgomery St. It was built in 1901 as Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph's instrument factory and warehouse. A five-story showroom and factory was located right behind it at 147-151 Minna. A four-story HQ office fronting on New Montgomery was completed just in time to be destroyed in 1906. (WMK) [61]
South of Market
Stockton near Bush
Wooden trough in vacant lot at SE corner. 590 Bush in left background.
Downtown / Union Square
Polk near Union
View north on Polk from Union, Corner bar with signs for local brands Wreden's and Annabelle lager steam beer and Old Phoenix Bourbon. Trench work in foreground with telephone conduit in bottom. Bare hill in distance on right side. (Pacific Telephone Inventory) See wnp26.1762
Russian Hill
Fulton near Steiner
View west at the north side of Fulton between Steiner and Pierce. Pacific Telephone employee poses with telephones to deliver to 1048 Fulton. Horse drawn delivery vehicle parked at curb. (Pacific Telephone)
Alamo Square
Unknown Location
Men with horse and wagon with Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph co. on side, Victorian homes in background
San Pablo
View southeast down San Pablo Ave near Church Ln. Dirt road, men working on installing telephone lines on row of poles, one worker doing handstand on top of pole. At right is Belding store at the southwest corner of Church and San Pablo Ave. (then Alvarado Rd.) See also wnp26.1803, wnp26.1720.
Outside SF
Unknown Location
Men working on telephone lines, horse and cart in foreground (Pacific Telephone)
Golden Gate Park
View west on Main Drive (JFK Drive) to Strawberry Hill with Sweeny Observatory. Buggies and carriages on road.
Golden Gate Park
3rd & Mission
View west on Mission from 3rd Street. Huge number of carriages headed east toward the camera. St. Patrick's Church, Grand Opera House, Victor Duhem's Solar Printing and Tintype Company photo studio on corner.
South of Market