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View east from Drumm toward California Street and Ferry Building. Foster's Lunch in Santa Marina Building and Weinstein Company. (Buildings demolished). Cal Street Cable RR Cable Car #1 at California, Drumm & Market
Financial District
View west toward Sacramento Street behind Market Street Railway (MSRy) 31-line streetcar #979 with zip stripe livery. Hotel Terminal, Heinz 57 sign, landscaped area in center of plaza with Muni starter kiosk. (Buildings demolished for Embarcadero Center and Embarcadero Plaza)
Financial District
View west across Market up Geary. Lotta's Fountain at right center. From left, Flood Building, Phelan Building, Bankers Investment Building, Magee Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building with Bank of America branch, Flannery Building (with Painless Parker Dentist branch opened September, 1946, The Stag Bar and Acme Beer signs). Whittell Building, Granville's Jewelers at right. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 7-line Streetcar #161 at center, B and C-Line streetcars at right. Dr. Willetts Chiropractor, W & H Cigars & Liquors, Foster's Cafeteria.
Downtown / Union Square
View south on 5th Street from near Market. Hale Brothers, F. W. Woolworth, Hotel Lankershim, Pickwick Hotel. Crowd of passengers trying to board the car. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 40-line Streetcar #1241, 5th & Market St.
South of Market
View east on Market, Pix Theater, Esquire Theater, Humboldt Bank Building, Emporium Building, Hale Bros. and J.C. Penny Company. Rainy day, many people on the sidewalk. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 7-line - Streetcar #150, Market at Mason. Street decorated for Shrine convention. Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Market to vacant Ford dealership building, Ace Auto & Truck Rental, Coliseum Bowl (45 11th St.), and Jersey Lunch (1501 Market). Municipal Railway (Muni) H-line Streetcar #94. Birdcage traffic signals.
Civic Center
View southeast across Market to vacant Ford dealership building, Ace Auto & Truck Rental, Coliseum Bowl (45 11th St.), and Jersey Lunch (1501 Market). Municipal Railway (Muni) H-line Streetcar #94. Birdcage traffic signals.
Civic Center
View northeast over intersection of California and Kearny to buildings on north side of California St. Club 500, Hotel Squire, States Hotel, San Francisco Bank, Financial Center Building (1927) Kohl Building. Approaching California Street Cable RR Cable Car. Rainy day.
Financial District
View west on Clay from Grant, Sign for 'Carl J. Fung & Co. Market Street Railway (MSRy) Sacramento Street Cable Car #19. Cable Car #19 is the oldest operating cable car (Built 1883) and returned to service in 2019. Soo Yuen Benevolent Association Building at right.
Chinatown
View east on California, Art Guild Building at left and Bay Bridge in the distance. California Street Cable RR Cable Car #4.
Nob Hill
View west from Montgomery. Jack's Restaurant at left, C & C Sandwich Shop to right, and Brocklebank Apartments in the distance. Market Street Railway (MSRy) Sacramento Street Cable Car #17, Clay (sic) & Montgomery
Financial District
View north on Hyde, Hyde Street pier ferry landing at center right. Cal Street Cable RR Cable Car
Russian Hill
View west on California, Bank of California at right. In far distance Old St. Mary's Cathedral and Fairmont Hotel. Center distance, Financial Center Building, Kohl Building, Mercantile Trust Co. Building (1903,Albert Pissis, Architect), London & San Francisco Bank Building (completed 1874). At far left, Fireman's Fund Insurance Building. California Street Cable RR Cable Car. Birdcage traffic signals.
Financial District
View northeast across Union Square to Hotel Plaza, Dewey Monument, Fred Benioff Furs, Howard Building, Whittell Building. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) B-line Geary Streetcar #105?
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across Union Square, Dewey Monument, Hotel Plaza, Fred Benioff Furs, Howard Building, Whittell Building. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) C-line Geary Streetcar #11.
Downtown / Union Square