Geary near Van Ness
View northwest across Geary near Van Ness, Muni C-Line #644 with wings livery. Prompt Radio & Television Co. in background.
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Presidio Ave & Geary
View northeast across Geary from Presidio Avenue. Muni C-Line Streetcar # 644 with wings livery. Flying-A (Associated) gas station on left. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #244 renumbered #644 after the 1944 merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni unit #244.)
Lower Pacific Heights
Geary at Van Ness
View west on Geary St. at Van Ness Ave. Muni C-Line streetcar #647 with wings livery crossing Van Ness. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #247 renumbered #647 after the 1944 merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni unit #247.)
Cathedral Hill
Market & Geary
View east from center of Market to Muni C-Line #662 with wings livery, Chronicle Building at left with Hymans Leasing and Peck Judah, Crocker Building beyond. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #262 renumbered #662 after the 1944 merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni unit #262.)
Downtown / Union Square
Presidio & Geary
View northeast across intersection to Muni C-Line #662 with wings livery (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #262 renumbered #662 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #262.). Flying A (Associated) service station.
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Washington & Fillmore
View southeast across Washington to Washington and Jackson Line Muni cable cars #513 and #520 (with ad for Skating Vanities at the Civic Auditorium) with Market St. Railway Co. (MSRy) shields on sides. in front of New Fillmore Grocery. Building now demolished.
Pacific Heights
Market & Pine
View southeast across Market St. from Pine St. Municipal Railway (Muni) D-Line streetcar #210 in intersection. Ferry Building and Southern Pacific Building in background. Matson Lines and PG&E Buildings at right.
Financial District
Van Ness & Broadway
View north on Van Ness to approaching Muni D-Line #172. Apartment building at right, formerly Adler's Sanitorium, extant 2019 as Notre Dame Apartments with balconies and decorative trim removed.
Polk Gulch
Presidio
Muni D-Line streetcars #210 and #20? at Presidio terminal near Letterman Hospital. Ad for Shrine Circus opening May 19, 1949.
Presidio
Market at 1st
View northeast across Market at First to Muni D-Line #75 with wings livery. Tilden Sales Building, Mobilgas sign in background.
Financial District
Market between 1st & 2nd
View southeast across Market past Muni D-Line #80 with wings livery, C. Barrango Mannequins, 579 Market, Harmony Stores for Men 585 Market
Financial District
Presidio streetcars
Muni E-Line and Muni D-Line. View east towards along right-of-way to Greenwich Street
Presidio
Ferry Building
View southeast to Muni E-Line #353, pedestrian overpass bridge.
Financial District
Columbus near Lombard
View north on Columbus toward Lombard. Left to right: Municipal Railway (Muni) 'Magic Carpet' streetcar #1002 on a fan trip; followed by Muni streetcar #1, running on the old F-line; and then Powell Street cable car #510. Most of the buildings in this view still exist in 2022 although the Entella Hotel building (with Club Lido) at Lombard has since lost its cupola.
North Beach
Southern Pacific Depot
View southeast across Townsend to north frontage of station, Muni F-Line #13 with wings livery. In background left, Libby, McNeill & Libby canners in Harron, Rickard & McCone Building 139 Townsend (Built 1909, still standing 2021) and Union Oil service station.
South Beach