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]
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Market & Kearny
View north on Kearny across Market. Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle Building with Security Finance Co., W & H Cigars Liquors on the right. KSAY Radio sign on Schmidt Building, Granville's Jewelers with Bulova clock, Pastine's, O.P.O Clothes, Iron Horse, Moores on left.
South of Market
Market near Fremont
View west across Market at Front. Crown Zellerbach (aka One Bush, completed 1959) and Shell Buildings. Top of Postal Telegraph Building, Board of Trade Building, Tilden Sales Building with water tank atop. Cigar store at center foreground. Donahue Mechanics Monument at lower left. Buildings in foreground later demolished.
Financial District
Market & Stockton
View north down Stockton from across Market. Roos Atkins and Joseph Magnin at right; Mayflower Restaurant, Foreman & Clark with large clock and Macy's at left.
Downtown / Union Square
1st near Market
View north on 1st toward Market. Municipal Railway (Muni) 3-line Streetcar #665. (Post-merger renumbered from Market Street Railway #265). Shell Building in background, Sheldon Building (demolished 1985) on right.
Financial District
Mission at Cortland
View northeast across Mission at Cortland, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 9-line Streetcar #885, Mission St. southbound at Cortland. Bernal Florist in background
Bernal Heights
Market near Geary
View southeast across Market to approaching Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line Streetcar #1007 with wings livery. Palace Hotel in background.
Downtown / Union Square
4th at Mission
View northeast across intersection to Municipal Railway (Muni) F-line Streetcar #35 with wings livery. All 4th Street buildings in this view now demolished. Hotel Margaret.
South of Market
West Portal & 14th Ave
View easterly on West Portal Avenue from 14th Avenue. Municipal Railway (Muni) Streetcar #1109 Kerman Co. Carpets, Renie's Liquors, Safeway, Homestead Savings, Shell service station.
West Portal
Grant near California
View south on Grant toward California Street to two well-dressed women and a 1925 Cleveland auto. 'Sing Fat Co' building in background, Sing Chong Building at right. Dragon streetlamps and globe streetlights.
Chinatown
Market & 5th
View west on Market from pedestrian island toward 5th Street. Warfield and Golden Gate Theatres in distance, Garfield Building 942 Market, Esquire & Telenews Theatres, Howard's Clothing, California School of Beauty Culture & Gray's Suits to the right in Douglas Building. Muni streetcar #1025 with wings livery. Everything east of Garfield Building demolished for Hallidie Plaza and 5th Street North (Cyril Magnin). [SF Market St, SF-4]
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Sansome
elevated view southwest from 1 Bush (Crown Zellerbach Building) towards Market & Sansome, and Market Street BART Montgomery Station construction with excavation completed. Most buildings on south side of Market east of 2nd Street have since been demolished, including Balboa Building at 2nd Street corner. Flatiron Building at right and 605 Market, Santa Fe / West Coast Life Building (with West Coast Life sign atop) also stand in 2022.
Financial District
Market near 6th
View east down Market from near center of roadway showing decorative pillars and electric lights along with flags and bunting, to celebrate the Knights of Pythias. Cable Cars running on Market. Hale's department store, Chinn-Beretta Optical Co. at right. Weinstock, Lubin & Co. in Donahoe Building at left across Taylor St.
Tenderloin
Church near Day
View northwest across Church St. to Municipal Railway (Muni) J-Line LRV, St. Paul's Church in background. [SF Municipal Railway (Muni) #1213, Trolley Festival Opening Parade]
Noe Valley
Market & Kearny
View west across Market to intersection of Market St, Geary and Kearny St. to United Railroads 4-line streetcar #1656. Magee Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Flannery Building (with J.Edlin Merchant Tailor, Chas. H. Strub Dentist, Gallenkamp Shoes and M.A. Gunst), Bankers Investment Building (1912) Chronicle Building with clock on corner over entry, Dr. Tambling, Dr. Goodnight dentists. Lotta's Fountain. [1656-04A-01 Market Street 1911][Market, Third & Kearney (Sic)]
Downtown / Union Square