California & Market
View north across California St. Cable Car #9, Weinstein Co. at 100 Market, Foster's Cafeteria at 114 Market, Santa Marina Building, Ferry building sign reads 'Welcome to San Francisco'.
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Castro & 18th
View northeast on Castro St to Market St. Railway Co. (MSRy) Castro St. Cable Car #7, 8-Line streetcar in distance. Bon Omi Store, Prudence Penny grocery store, Castro Theater in background.
Castro
Tug Boat
looking south, Prior to Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill
Sausalito Harbor
Yacht Harbor. View looking east to sailing ship 'Pacific Queen' (now 'Balclutha') anchored in Richardson Bay. Good view of Mount Livermore on Angel Island before its summit was removed for a Nike missile radar site.
Outside SF
Richardson Bay
Charles Van Damm, Issaquah, City of Seattle
Outside SF
Powell near Bush
View taken from a cable car heading south on Powell towards Market St.
Nob Hill
Grove & Larkin
Elevated view northeast from Civic Auditorium across intersection to United Service Organization (USO) Hospitality House (constructed between March and August, 1941), a clubhouse for enlisted men. WACs (Women's Army Corps) marching across intersection. In background from left, Main Public Library, Old Federal Office Building, Orpheum Theater, Lick Pioneer Monument (in original location). Standard Oil of California truck with bunting and sign for AAF (Army Air Force) Oil for Winged Victory. Posters on streetlamp poles for War Show at Seals Stadium. Probably related to production at this time at Opera House of Moss Hart play "Winged Victory". [Winged Victory]
Civic Center
Dismantling PPIE
looking south toward Pacific Heights
Marina
View N from Nob Hill
From above Joice Street near California. Telegraph Hill at right.
Nob Hill
PPIE
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Dismantling California Building following the Fair. View west along Marina Blvd.
Marina
Marina near Fillmore
View west on Marina Blvd. Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) being dismantled. Palace of Fine Arts on left, Column of Progress, California Building, lighthouse at yacht basin.
Marina
View from Buena Vista Park
Lootking north. Panhandle, Calvary Cemetery
Buena Vista
Market near 3rd
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
14th Ave & Lincoln
Elevated view southeast across 14th Avenue near Lincoln Way over Market Street Railway (MSRy) streetcar 'boneyard' storage facility. Old St. Anne's Catholic church on right. Mount Sutro in distance. 17-Line #156, 6-Line #137 and #889 from left. [Funston (Sic) + Lincoln Way 124873]
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Irving & Funston
Elevated view northeast to Lincoln Way streetcar 'boneyard. Billboard reads: 'New Homes Here, city will clear this block if you vote YES, Tuesday April 20th One System - One Management- One Fare Universal Transfer.' Cropped version of photo published in San Francisco Examiner April 8, 1943 edition with caption: "BARGAIN OFFERED TAXPAYERS: NOT JUNK---These old Market Street Railway trolleys go with the land on which they stand at Funston Ave. and Lincoln Way, if the city trolley merger goes through. City expects to salvage many usable parts from these cars to put new cars together." The 1943 effort failed, but one in May, 1944 was successful and Muni and Market St. Railway merged on September 29, 1944. Visible in front are MSRy cars #795, #896, #839, #894, #787 and #848, scrapped in 1946.
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