Contains 12978 photos
View southeast toward 2nd Street intersection, Balboa Building, West Coast Life Insurance Building, SF Muni PCC streetcar #1135. demolition completed for 555 Market tower in background left. Underwood Building at far left.
Downtown
Market Street Railway (MSRy) 2-line streetcar #215 on private right-of-way crossing Merrie Way. Sign on front of car advertises wreck of the oil tanker SS Frank Buck at Lands End. Sutro Heights in background.
Richmond
Interior of Muni Bus #749, taken from the rear. Shows fare box in use at the time.
View northwest on Columbus. Enlargement of central section at wnp27.3809. Enlargement of left central section at wnp27.3808.
North Beach
View west from City Hall Ave and McAllister to Old City Hall and Hall of Records, City Hall Avenue, Mechanics Pavilion, Supreme Court Building (Larkin & McAllister) at right.
Civic Center
View northeast to Kissel promotional auto covered in painted text (with 'High Gear' painted on radiator), at Carmel and Clayton. Engine Company No. 40 firehouse and Mt. Olympus in background. Firemen posing with kids. In May, 1923, as a promotion, Kissel arranged for one of its Model 55 cars to be driven from Merced to Yosemite Valley with its transmission locked in high gear. In the car were Carl Borgen, driver, L.D. Whitehurst, San Francisco sales manager, and Charles H. Holdson, pilot. This photo is from a similar test in late July, 1923 when the same car climbed Twin Peaks in low gear, driven by Borgen with Phil Sheridan, automotive editor of The Call as a passenger. Whitehurst walked beside the car during the test.
Twin Peaks
Mile Rocks Beach (also called Lands End Beach) looking North. People playing in the surf at the base of Lands End promontory.
Lands End
People playing in the surf at Mile Rocks Beach (also called Lands End Beach), looking north. Lands End promontory at right. Pyramid Rock offshore.
Lands End
Presidio, Montgomery Street Barracks. [852 Light battery on full dress inspection]
Presidio
1906 Earthquake and Fire, 200 block of 3rd Avenue looking north after 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Residents cooked in streets until gas mains were checked for breaks.
Richmond Inner
View north at Entrada Court, the sundial at center. Clubhouse for Ingleside Racetrack in the background, at the time used as a sales office. Cars and people assembled for a promotional west side automobile tour coordinated by the SF Call newspaper.
Ingleside Terraces
View southeast to Ingleside Terraces entry gate at Ocean Avenue and Cedro. United Railroads 12-line streetcar #1728 stopped in front.[28]
Ingleside Terraces
View east to well dressed group of women and a young girl, many holding floral bouquets, posed in front of fountain.
St. Francis Wood
Recreation Grounds, Golden Gate Park, near 7th Avenue. Baseball game in background, little girl in foreground
Golden Gate Park
View across intersection to southwest corner, Heinecke Bros. Grocery/Wine, 4201 18th Street with gas lamp on corner. Men and child posing in front.
Castro