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Monterey & Detroit
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Monterey & Detroit

View north across Monterey near Detroit. Market Street Railway 10-line streetcar #802 with zip stripe livery. [0802-10-08 EB on Monterey at Detroit 1942]

Sunnyside
24th & Hoffman
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24th & Hoffman

Market Street Railway 11-line streetcar #804 at Hoffman Street Terminal. Twin Peaks in background. Streetcar painted with wartime employment ad. [0804-11-A EB ON 24TH AT HOFFMAN 10 APR 1944]

Noe Valley
Mission near 5th
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Mission near 5th

View east on Mission. Market Street Railway 10-line Streetcar #807. McDonald's Books and Central Plumbing Supply. At left, signage for Evergreen California Hat Co., Evergreen Ladies Hats, 827 Mission. All buildings in view demolished for 5th and Mission Parking Garage. [0807-10-04 WB ON MISSION AT FIFTH circa 1940]

South of Market
San Jose & Sagamore
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San Jose & Sagamore

View southwest across intersection to Market St. Railway (MSRY) 26-line streetcar #807. Charlie's Smoke Shop and On The Square Barber Shop in background, in building at 103-111 Sagamore St. built 1929, still stands 2023. Southern Pacific Railroad Tracks. View now dominated by I280 freeway. Reinstated 26-Line running between Daly City and Onondaga Ave. and Mission St. only during World War II. [0807-26B-01 NB on San Jose at Sickles May 1943]

Oceanview
Monterey & Detroit
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Monterey & Detroit

View northeast across Monterey. Market Street Railway 10-line Streetcar #808. [0808-10-01 WB on Monterey Blvd East of Detroit 1941]

Sunnyside
Powell near North Point
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Powell near North Point

View south on Powell from Northpoint. Market Street Railway 15-line Streetcar #808 with zip stripe livery. Enclosed pedestrian overhead crossing between warehouses. Ss. Peter & Paul Church spires visible in background. [0808-15-01 NB on Powell at Bay 1940]

Fishermans Wharf
Kearny & Pacific
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Kearny & Pacific

Market Street Railway 15-line Streetcar #809 passing International Settlement on Pacific. [0809-15-02 SB on Kearny at Pacific 1939 International Settlement]

Chinatown
Sloat & Ardenwood
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Sloat & Ardenwood

SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 12-line Streetcar #811 near St. Francis Circle. [0811-12-02 WB on Sloat West of St. Francis Circle 1948]

West Portal
3rd & Townsend
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3rd & Townsend

Elevated view south toward Southern Pacific Station. Market Street Railway 15-line Streetcar #811. Third Street Bridge and China Basin building in background.[0811-15-02 3RD & TOWNSEND circa 1940]

South Beach
Fulton & Masonic
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Fulton & Masonic

Elevated view northeast toward McAllister Street Car Barn. Market Street Railway (MSFy) 5-line Streetcar #814 entering yard. [0814-05-01 EB on PRW East of Masonic McAllister Yard 1939]

Panhandle
Cesar Chavez & Pennsylvania
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Cesar Chavez & Pennsylvania

View east on Cesar Chavez (then Army Street) toward Pennsylvania. Market Street Railway 30-line Streetcar #819. Crowds of people walking towards circus. General Blower Corporation. Taken from Southern Pacific overpass. [0819-30A-03 August 1939 Circus at 3rd & Army]

Central Waterfront
Potrero & Cesar Chavez
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Potrero & Cesar Chavez

View northwest across intersection of Cesar Chavez (then Army Street) and Potrero Avenue. Market Street Railway 30-line Streetcar #819. James Rolph Playground at right. Birdcage traffic signal. [0819-30A-04 ARMY & POTRERO August 1939 Ringling Bros. Circus]

Peralta Heights
Fulton & Masonic
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Fulton & Masonic

Elevated view northeast toward McAllister Street Car Barn. SF Municipal Railway 5-line Streetcar #820 exiting yard [0820-05-01 WB on PRW at Masonic 1948 Yard Streetcars & Buses]

Lone Mountain
Monterey & Foerster
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Monterey & Foerster

View east on Monterey. Market Street Railway 10-line Streetcar #810. Dimiceli's Grocery. [0820-10-01 WB on Monterey at Edna (North) 1942]

Sunnyside
23rd & 3rd
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23rd & 3rd

Market Street Railway 30-line #822 with zip stripe livery. Conductor adjusts Eclipse fender. PG&E gas storage tanks. [0822-30-02 23rd & Third August 1939]

Dogpatch