Folsom & 10th
1400 Folsom at 10th Street, Tynan-Alexander Motors. A tow truck and tractor on a trailer. Building still stands in 2020. [for tractor service, call Underhill 2305]
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4th & Welsh
View west across 4th Street at Welsh (between Bryant and Brannan). Republic Truck Sales, 534 4th Street. A dump truck. The building still stands in 2020.
South of Market
Bryant near Mariposa
1915 Bryant, east side between Mariposa and 18th Street. William Bateman Company, Bank, Store, and Office Furniture Manufacturer. (Cabinet Shop) Men posed in front of the office, Mill next door.
Mission
Grover near Polk
View northerly, Flatbed truck parked on Grove between Van Ness and Polk, City Hall in the background, Main Library in the distance across Civic Center Plaza.
Civic Center
Grove & Polk
View northwest across Grove, City Hall in the background. California Automobile Association Truck posed reading 'We are signing the Victory Highway, San Francisco to N.Y.' The side of the truck is painted with a view of SF Bay.
Civic Center
Fulton near Larkin
View north across Fulton between Larkin and Hyde, Main Library ( now Asian Art Museum) in the background. Mack truck with trailer posed in the middle of the street.
Civic Center
Fulton near Larkin
View easterly on Fulton between Hyde and Larkin. Main Library (now Asian Art Museum) at right. Fleet of Trucks for Consumers Ice Company posed in line along Fulton Street.
Civic Center
Fulton near Larkin
View north across Fulton between Larkin and Hyde, Main Library ( now Asian Art Museum) in the background. Fleet of Nash trucks posed in the street. (1920 license plate)
Civic Center
Grove near Polk
View north across Grove between Polk and Larkin St. Civic Center Plaza with old Main Library and Welcome Home Victory Monument in the background. Two trucks posed on Grove Street with signs reading 'California Highway Motor Train - San Francisco to Los Angeles and return by SF Truck Distributors - 3 ½ Ton Federal Truck carrying power farm machinery for W.L. Hughson Co.'
Civic Center
19th near Guerrero
Dairy Delivery Company, 3550 19th Street. North side of 19th Street between Guerrero and Lapidge. ( Linda Street was a dead end off 20th Street) The plant was replaced by a location on Potrero Avenue in 1933 and demolished for housing by 1938.
Mission Dolores
Unknown Location
Western Pipe and Steel truck loaded with pipe. Western Pipe and Steel became a ship builder located off Oyster Point Boulevard in South San Francisco
22nd near Mission
North side of 22nd Street between Mission and Capp. Truck for William P. Leahy Drayage, 3186 22nd Street posed in front of building ( site of bank building built 1926) Nerney & O'Brien Used Cars
Mission
1st near Mission
East side of 1st Street between Minna and Natoma, demolished for Transbay (East Bay) Terminal. G.W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Company, 150 1st (First) Street
South of Market
21st & Harrison
Ford assembly plant, southwest corner of 21st and Harrison, built by the national company in 1912 and designed by Seattle architect John Graham. The Federal truck belonged to William L Hughson, who sold Ford automobiles in San Francisco from the first year of Ford's existence, in 1903, until Hughson's death in 1967. (WMK) The building became the San Francisco Trade School around 1948 and later known as John O'Connell High School. Damaged by the earthquake in 1989, the building was demolished in the early 1990s.
Mission
Natoma near 2nd
Edgar Jamison Steel Co. 77-79 Natoma, between 1st and 2nd Streets. Building was demolished around 2016 as part of the Transbay Redevelopment Plan.
South of Market