Sacramento & Waverly
[1292A] View east on Sacramento. Cable car tracks; buggies, horse drawn delivery wagon coming up hill; Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building (1893) in distance.
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Contains 689 photos
Market near Turk
View northwest across Market to north side of street. Victorian flats, buggies, delivery wagon and Market St. Cable Railway cable car #8.
South of Market
Geary & Market
[No. 479 Geary Street San Francisco, Cal.] Elevated view west on Geary from Palace Hotel. Rail work on Market Street. Geary Street cable car #2, Flannery Building (with "Red Rubber Stamps" sign above third story), Large "Dentistry" sign with eagle on roof of building at northwest corner of Kearny & Geary, Lotta's Fountain. In distance on Geary ,large sign for Bradley & Rulofson Photograph Gallery, Calvary Presbyterian Church. Large sign for Eagleson & Co., Shirts & Underwear atop building at right.
South of Market
Montgomery & Gold
Elevated view northeast across Montgomery to intersection with Gold St., Pioneer Hall 808 Montgomery (Samuel Charles Bugbee, 1812-1877, architect, built 1862), Society of California Pioneers, first home of Hastings College of the Law (in 1879). Vanderslice & Co. Silversmiths (810 Montgomery). Pacific Street at upper left. Cannon on corner sidewalk points to doorway. (AS) [260. Hall of California Pioneers Helios]
North Beach
Geary & Market
[No. 106 Lotta's Fountain, San Francisco, Cal.] Lotta's Fountain, looking northwest to Geary St. Men posing around the fountain. 'McAllister Dentist' and 'Holt's Patent Printing Wheel' signs on Flannery Building at left. (Gold tooth which inspired Frank Norris' use in "McTeague" hanging from building at right. Left image from stereograph card, similar to wnp24.0033a, wnp37.02308.)
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Post
View north to crowded Powell Street cable car #401. Bernheim's Pharmacy at far left. Unusual street lamp above intersection. Third Baptist Church steeple on east side of Powell a few blocks north.
Downtown / Union Square
Sutter near Grant
View east on Sutter towards W & J Sloane building. Clement streetcar. White House department store (1908, Albert Pissis architect) on Grant corner at right. Nuttall Building on left with Chas. M. Plum & Co. on marquee, later World Affairs Center (1909, Albert Pissis architect).
Downtown / Union Square
Grant near California
Looking north between Pine and California. Sing Fat Co. with stained glass globe streetlamps in front and Sing Chong Co. Delivery men.
Chinatown
Sutter & Fillmore
View northwest across intersection to Muni 3- Line streetcar #227 turning; Reinert - Riley furniture store, Byington Electric Co. radios. Streetcar has poster ad for "Another Part of the Forest" at the United Artists Theatre.
Lower Pacific Heights
Grant & Washington
View northwest across intersection to Royal Photographic Studio 806 Washington, W. F. Song Photographer 800 Washington, Wing On Co. 903 Grant. Grand Chinese Theatre, also known as Donn Quai Yuen, at far left. People shopping. Duplicate of wnp37.02567.
Chinatown
California & Grant
View northwest across Grant toward California Street. Hotel Dupont Sing Fat Co. with globe stained glass streetlamps in front. Sing Chong Co. Building. Flags, lanterns and electric lights strung over street.
Chinatown
Market near Powell
View northeast across Market between Powell and Stockton. 6-line streetcar #136 derailed in front of the Flood Building blocking all streetcar traffic. At this point, post merger of merger of Muni and Market Street Railway, both the tracks and equipment were worn leading to this derailment. The 4 tracks were reduced to 2 the next year. Morgen Jewelry Co., Florsheim Shoes, Moore Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes, Anglo California National Bank with large electric signs on top. Banners strung across street and on streetlamps for Lions International convention parade on July 28, 1947. Phelan Building in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Fillmore & California
View north across intersection to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 4-line streetcar #218 headed to East Bay Terminal. American Trust building on right. Iron arches at intersections removed in June, 1943.
Lower Pacific Heights
Clement & 6th Ave
View northwest across intersection to Muni 2-line streetcar #461. Coliseum Furs, Ed's Togs, Dr. McGuire dentist. Rail service on this line ended on July 1, 1949. (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #161 renumbered #461 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni #161.)
Richmond Inner
Clement & 6th Ave
View west across intersection to Muni 2-Line #241 Eastbound on Clement at 6th Ave, another in distance. Coliseum Furs, Ed's Togs, Dr. G.W. Smith optometrist, Clement Hotel (540 Clement), Nino's Barber Shop on right. Lick Market, Coliseum Theatre in distance on left. Most buildings in photo still stand in 2025. Rail service on this line ended on July 1, 1949.
Richmond Inner