Mission & 2nd
View west on Mission across 2nd St. .Whiddom's Cigars on corner. Muni (Municipal Railway) 14-line Streetcar #957 [Mission & 2nd 1948]
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Market near 1st
View southeast across Market toward 1st opposite Battery Street. Sheldon Building in background on southeast corner of 1st. Dietzgen Company drawing and surveying supplies on right in Underwood Building, 525 Market. All buildings in this view demolished. Muni (Municipal Railway) 1-line Streetcar #978 with zip stripe livery and American Flag on roof, after service on Lines 1 & 2 changed to Bridge Terminal in March 1949. [Market & Sansome 1948]
Financial District
Castro near 18th
View northwest across Castro to Market Street Railway (MSRy) Cable Car #3, 8-Line streetcar. Castro Theatre, Castro Grill, Bon Omi Store, Eureka Florist, Prudence Penny grocery Store in background. [15th & Castro 1939]
Castro
Ocean at Plymouth
View northeast across Ocean from Plymouth. City College's Science Hall, designed by Timothy Pflueger, in background. Ocean Avenue Golf Practice Range at left. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 12-line Streetcar #985. [WB on Ocean at Plymouth 1942]
Westwood Park
19th Ave near Wawona
View south on 19th Avenue from near Wawona. Autos stopped Sloat Boulevard in the background. Street widening construction. Future Stern Grove at right. Billboards for Phillies cigars and Richfield gas
Parkside
Mission & 30th
View north across Mission at 30th. Market Street Railway 12-line Streetcar #1572. Genoa Grocery-Delicatessen Ravioli at left, later site of gas station, 30th Street Market, and Lyceum Theatre along Mission Street [1942]
Bernal Heights
Market & 5th
View east on Market Street. Buildings on left demolished for Halladie Plaza. Flood Building on left. 'Take Care of Them' and Red Cross banners fly over street.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Mt. St. Joseph
View north from Mt. St. Joseph to Potrero Hill and Bay Bridge. Southern Pacific tracks at center. Auto Wreckers at left foreground.
Silver Terrace
Divisadero near Grove
View south down Divisadero St. towards Grove. Universal Auto Repair and Early Times billboard at center. Harding Theatre in background .
Alamo Square
California near Powell
View east on California St. to approaching cable car. New Crest Auto Center at right. In distance left, 720 California building after 2-story addition, Home Insurance Company Building (later Fireman's Fund) with Colonial tower. Large S-P sign atop Southern Pacific Building in background center installed March, 1954. New Crest Auto Center at right.
Nob Hill
Columbus & Kearny
View southeast from Columbus and Kearny St. looking at Columbus Tower (Sentinel Building) and Transamerica Pyramid. Standard Oil gas station and Jim's at base of tower.
North Beach
California & Kearny
View east down California from Kearny St. GW building at upper right. Stairs in front of Bank of America building at lower right.
Financial District
Pier 41
Noah's Ark attraction at Pier 41 on the Embarcadero. Opened July 1, 1959. Former barge converted into a children's attraction with fake animals. Apparently used for fund raising events. Moored across from sailing ship Balcutha.
Market & Grant
View northeast across Market looking toward Grant. Muni J-Line Streetcar PCC #1035. Regal Shoes, Seaboard Loans on left. Union Trust Company Building at center. Citizens Federal Savings Mutual Savings Bank Building at right, Chronicle Building beyond.
South of Market
Annie & Market
View west down Geary across Market from what was then the corner of Annie Street. Lotta's Fountain at center. Muni streetcar PCC #1012. Flannery Building with Dr. Alexander Dentist and The Stag bar, Mutual Savings Bank Building with Citizens Federal Savings branch, Bank of America. On Geary Whittell Building and St. Francis Hotel in distance. KSAY radio sign at right on Schmidt Building, Granville's Jewelers, M.B. Rich optician, Foster's, California Compensaton & Fire Co. with electric sign showing temperature, Livingston's, Owl Drugs. Chronicle Building at far right. 10:05 a.m. on clock at right.
South of Market