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View north on Grant Avenue toward Sacramento. Market Street Railway (MSRy) Cable car #23 on Sacramento and Clay line crossing intersection. T. Iwata & Co., Postal Telegraph sign, Hung Far Low Noodles, Chop Stick restaurant, Chinese Village liquors, S. Takazawa & Co. art goods and kimonos.
Chinatown
View west on Sacramento toward Fillmore. Market Street Railway (MSRy) Sacramento & Clay St. Line cable car #18 at terminus. 4-line streetcar outbound on Sacramento. Fillmore St. Steel Arches still intact, would be removed for WWII metal drive in June, 1943. Florist, Lane Drugs & Liquors.
Pacific Heights
View east on Clay toward Kearny. Cable car track. Portsmouth Square at left. Bank of Italy Building at Montgomery St. corner. Ferry Building in distance.
Chinatown
Elevated view southeast across intersection to last day of service of Pacific Avenue Cable Car train line. In background is Ellinwood House, built 1893-94 J. Eugene Freeman architect, San Francisco Landmark #207. Duplicate wnp27.4046.
Pacific Heights
Elevated view northwest over derailed Cable Car #5, with Market Street Railway Co. (MSRy) utility truck #157 attending. Ramsay's Pharmacy on southwest corner, Dr. R.D. Crittendon Dentist on upper floor, Star Pharmacy on northwest corner. 33-Line bus at top.
Castro
Elevated view northwest over derailed Cable Car #5, with Market Street Railway Co. (MSRy) utility truck #157 attending. Ramsay's Pharmacy on southwest corner, Dr. R.D. Crittendon Dentist on upper floor, 8-line streetcar #205 approaching Castro.
Castro
View north to Market Street Railway (MSRy )Cable Car #4 and 8-line streetcar #204. Castro Theatre, Bon Omi Store, Prudence Penny grocery in background.
Castro
View northwest across Powell to Municipal Railway (Muni) Powell & Mason Cable Car #504. St. Francis hotel at left. United Airlines. Car is still painted with pre-merger Market Street Railway (MSRy) shield.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across intersection to Muni Powell & Mason Line Cable Car #507. Parsons Optical Laboratories in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View south from center of Powell to Powell Cable Car and O'Farrell Cable Car meeting in intersection.
Downtown / Union Square
View east from center of Washington toward Fillmore. Muni Cable Car #518 with American flags and ad for Glen Hurlburt's 'Cable Car Concerto" and 'Rhapsody of Fisherman's Wharf' record (1947). African American operators standing in street. Safeway grocery store in background left.
Pacific Heights
View across intersection towards northwest corner. SF Muni Washington Jackson line Cable Car #521 with ad for Hilo Hattie with Harry Owens Orchestra at the St. Francis Hotel and another behind wait as Muni streetcar #217 passes. New Fillmore Grocery at left. All buildings in background extant in 2021.
Pacific Heights
View southeast to Cable Car #53 at end of line. Hub Theatre, Stanford Jewelers, Schwabacher-Frey, Greyhound, Grant Market and Pacific States Savings and Loan Co. Corner of Phelan Building at right. Banners strung over Market Street. Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
View south on Hyde toward California. Cable Car Powerhouse on Hyde across California (now demolished). Women in street boarding O'Farrell Jones and Hyde St. cable car. Conradi's Fountain Drugs, Hyde St. Market, Young's Cafe.
Nob Hill
View northeast cross California St to Cable Car #15 going uphill between Grant and Stockton. 720 California, then Hartford Insurance Building, on left, Cathay House restaurant, Old Saint Mary's cathedral and rectory, Financial Center Building, Southern Pacific Building in distance.
Chinatown