Contains 623 photos
View north across Market at Castro Street. Men posed with Market Street Railways steam dummy and trailer at the end of the line. This steam line preceded the Castro cable line and operated from September 1880 - July 1888. The three Victorians in the background still stand on Castro between Market and 16th. [Market St. Extension Dummy S.F. Wagstaff 375 Sanchez] [F810 STC-043] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Duboce Triangle
Electric streetcar, U.S. Railway Post Office, Market St. Railway Co.; Folsom St. car, same line, at right. Both in front of original Ferry Building. [F810 STC-045] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)[Foot of Market St, S.F.]
Financial District
View North on Harrison from near 17th Street. Cement and Gravel Plant on the block bounded by 16th, 17th, Harrison, and Alabama. Line of tank cars outside industrial buildings.[Composition Harrison St] Line of tank cars outside industrial buildings.
Mission
View northerly from Ocean Avenue at the Southern Pacific right-of-way just west of Balboa Park. Municipal Railway (Muni) K-Ingleside streetcar #1014 inbound at right. Ingleside Police Station at Balboa Park at center. Undeveloped San Miguel Hills (future Diamond Heights) in the background. the SP route would become BART's route, Interstate 280 will be built in the area the area just to the left.
Cayuga
View east from Ocean Avenue at the Southern Pacific right-of-way just west of Balboa Park. Southern Pacific locomotive #1361 crossing Ocean Avenue. Balboa Park in the background. Automobiles backed up as train crosses. The SP route would become BART's route, Interstate 280 will be built in the area the area just to the left.
Cayuga
View east from Ocean Avenue at the Southern Pacific right-of-way just west of Balboa Park. Southern Pacific locomotive #1361 crossing Ocean Avenue. Balboa Park and Firehouse in the background. Automobiles and Municipal Railway streetcar #1004 (marked for L-Taraval) backed up as train crosses. The SP route would become BART's route, Interstate 280 will be built in the area the area just to the left.
Cayuga
View northerly from Ocean Avenue at the Southern Pacific right-of-way just west of Balboa Park. Municipal Railway (Muni) streetcar #159 inbound at right. Ingleside Police Station at Balboa Park at center. Undeveloped San Miguel Hills (future Diamond Heights) in the background. The SP route would become BART's route, Interstate 280 will be built in the area the area just to the left.
Cayuga
Teenagers driving car on railroad tracks near San Jose Avenue and Broad. Now location of Interstate 280.
Outer Mission
View west up to Coit Tower (built 1932-33) on Telegraph Hill. Railroad cars, tower of warehouse. Top of Henry Cowell Lime & Cement Co. warehouse at lower left.
Northern Waterfront
Roosevelt presidential campaign. FDR speaking from train in Sacramento
View north toward Alcatraz and Angel Island from Coit Tower. Piers 43 (railroad ferry arch), 41, 39, and 37 at center. At lower right 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
Telegraph Hill
Little Puffer steam locomotive at the zoo (also Fleishhacker Zoo). Lettering on tender reads 'Herbert Fleishhacker Playfield Miniature Railroad 1925'
Lakeshore
View north from Telegraph Hill toward waterfront and Fisherman's Wharf. Pier 45 at left. Natural gas tank (gasometer) and gas works. Railroad yard. Fog over the bay. Mt. Tamalpais in background. (Ansco Color transparency)
Telegraph Hill
Herbert Fleishhacker Playfield Miniature Railroad, Little Puffer steam train filled with children. (Ansco Color transparency)
Lakeshore
Piers 35, 33, 31 with U. S. Navy ships docked. (Ansco Color transparency)
Telegraph Hill