Divisadero & Hayes
Looking north from center of Divisadero to work crew installing tracks in intersection. To the right is The Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home. [Devisadero & Hayes Sts.]- United Railroads [U00278]
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Polk & Sacramento
Cable Car Crossing. Wide gauge tracks on Polk Street (5-ft) while the tracks on Sacramento were narrow gauge (3-ft). Looking north. - United Railroads [U00296]
Polk Gulch
3rd & Bryant
Elevated view west of track installation at intersection. Sign for Laventhal Bros. Silkwood Whiskey on J.J. Sweeney liquor store, - United Railroads [U00044]
South Beach
U.S. Life Saving Station
View of rear of U.S. Life Saving Station in Golden Gate Park. Scene of accident in which woman hit her head on pole while looking out streetcar. [Henney Case] - United Railroads [U00046]
Golden Gate Park
Page & Pierce
View West on Page Street. Many of these buildings extant 2019.- United Railroads [U00757]
Lower Haight
Clement near 8th Ave
View east on Clement from 8th Avenue. Richmond Congregational Church at right at the southwest corner of 7th Avenue. Congress Hall Whiskey advertisement on 538 Clement on the the left, the grocery store of Pietro (Paul) Del Piano. Mr. Piano got out of the grocery business a few years later, and opened three successive saloons in the inner-Richmond, up until Prohibition closed him down. (JF) The white 3-story building at left still stands at 524 Clement. - United Railroads [U00226A]
Richmond Inner
Washington & Mason
View north across Mason to Cable Car & Powerhouse at Washington and Mason Streets. Ferries & Cliff House Railway Co. Men and boys under corner awning. [Washington & Mason Car & Powerhouse. Broken Corner Missing] - United Railroads [U00138]
Nob Hill
Sutter & Broderick
View west on Sutter from Broderick. Buildings at right (north side) mostly still stand. The block on the left demolished for public housing. Sutter Street cable tracks in street, Laurel Hill Cemetery in distance. Liquor store on corner at left. [Whithing Case] - United Railroads [U00170]
Lower Pacific Heights
14th & Valencia
View North on Valencia Street with track construction at intersection. - United Railroads [U00207]
Mission Dolores
9th & Market
View north across Market to corner of Hayes & Larkin. 9th & Larkin Line of what was the Sutter Street Railway. Mechanics Pavilion, later site of Civic Auditorium. - United Railroads [U00219]
South of Market
Frederick & Stanyan
View Southeast toward Cole Valley. Putting in new set of tracks. Almost all of the buildings in this photo exist today. - United Railroads [U00318]
Parnassus Heights
El Camino Del Mar near Seal Rock
48th Ave Depot during conversion of Ferries & Cliff House steam railroad line to streetcar line. The depot, built in 1888, was moved several feet and refurbished by United Railroads during the conversion. Sutro Heights Casino in right background at today's 48th Ave & Point Lobos. United Railroads [Reconstruction Ferries & Cliff Line] [U00411]
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
4th & Howard
Looking north toward Market Street. In the far distance you can see the St Francis Hotel, Academy of Sciences and Pioneer Hall. At far left, New Golden Gate Hotel 164 4th Street. Saloon with Wunder Beer sign at right at Natoma St. corner. [Rerailing 4th St between Howard & Mission]. . - United Railroads [U00457]
South of Market
Lands End Station
Construction of Lands End Station on the Cliff Line (formerly Ferries & Cliff House line). Served as passenger waiting room, curio shop and food concession until demolished in 1940. [Reconstruction Ferries & Cliff Line.55] Observation streetcars could pull over on a siding and people could get off and have their photo taken. The railroad right-of-way is now part of a walking path. - United Railroads [U00469]
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Eddy near Powell
View east on Eddy from center of street showing work crew building tracks. St. Ann's Building, Louvre restaurant on left. Flood building, Emporium and Red Front stores in distance.. - United Railroads [U00573] [Eddy & Powell Sts.]
Downtown / Union Square