Streetcar

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Geneva & San Jose
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Geneva & San Jose

Municipal Railway (Muni) work car #0131 behind the Geneva Car Barn

Cayuga
Geneva & San Jose
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Geneva & San Jose

Municipal Railway (Muni) work car #0131 behind the Geneva Car Barn

Cayuga
Geneva & San Jose
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Geneva & San Jose

Muni work car at Geneva car barn / cathouse

Cayuga
Geneva & San Jose
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Geneva & San Jose

Muni work car, Geneva car house and Muni streetcar #1 in background

Cayuga
Geary & Kearny
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Geary & Kearny

Elevated view northwest across Market to World War I Buy Liberty Bonds display covering Lotta's Fountain, with soldier and sailor figures attached climbing rope ladder and El Camino Real Mission Bell. Chronicle Building at right with baseball scoreboard on facade (installed July, 1913). Buildings on west side of Kearny include Schmidt Building, Baldwin Building, Oscar Luning Building, Roullier Building with 'Orange Blossom' sign. In distance, Joy's Drugs at Kearny & Bush.

South of Market
Mission & 22nd
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Mission & 22nd

View north to 9-line streetcar #1731; Fink's, Hale's Mission Store, Mission Theater, Majestic Theater, Manhattan Lunch, American Trust Company Bank (later Wells Fargo). Birdcage traffic signal.

Mission
Geary & Kearny
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Geary & Kearny

View steeply down to crowd of mostly men wearing hats gathered at and on Lotta's Fountain; army band on street to right of trucks may be 30th Infantry band, which had been assigned to rally duty; three army flatbed trucks with bullhorns atop, and signs that read 'NRA'. Chronicle Bldg at left (with Dr. Willett Chiropractor, Florsheim Shoes, Superior Fountain Lunch). 8-Kine, K-Line and 9-Line streetcars. Birdcage traffic signals.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

Elevated view southeast across Market to L to R: Balboa Building, Metropolis Bank Building, Palace Hotel, Monadnock, Hearst / Examiner Building, Claus Spreckels Building(Call Building) with electric sign on front for Municipal Light & Power Co. Before 1918 and after 1913, because of tracks.

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery & Market
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Montgomery & Market

Elevated view north from Metropolis Bank Building. L to R: Crocker Woolworth Building, Crocker First National Bank Building, Wells Fargo & Union Trust Building, Hobart Building. Hunter Dulin, Russ Building in distance.

Financial District
Market & New Montgomery
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Market & New Montgomery

Elevated view northwest across Market. [Looking up Market Street at Post. The Crocker Building in the foreground; On the left, in order, are the 660 Market St. Realty Building, Chronicle, Mutual Savings Bank and Phelan Buildings] Flannery Building with signage for C.M. Wooster Co. Country Lands, Golden State Irrigated Farms Co. in front of the Mutual Savings Bank Building. At far left, scaffolding over sidewalk for Palace Hotel construction (opened December, 1909) Very similar image to wnp13.231.

Financial District
Geary & Market
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Geary & Market

Elevated view southeast to busy street scene. L to R: de Young / Chronicle Building, workers pushing Geary St. Cable Car from turntable, Ferry Building, Balboa Building, Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building, Lotta's Fountain, Palace Hotel (with Western Pacific in corner retail space), Monadnock Building.

Downtown / Union Square
Stanyan & Haight
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Stanyan & Haight

[No. 296 loads passengers at Stanyan and Haight. September 6, 1941.] View northeast across Stanyan to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 20-line streetcar #296 with Zip Stripe livery. Stanyan Cyclery and Frank M. Smith tennis shop behind.

Golden Gate Park
Geary near 32nd Ave
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Geary near 32nd Ave

[12-22-56 Geary near 32nd Ave] B-Geary line streetcar #83. Golden Gate Bridge behind. Golden Gate Nursery on corner at 6726 Geary.

Richmond Outer
Lands End Station
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Lands End Station

Crowd posing in front of 'California Observation Car' streetcar on Cliff Line (later #1 line) around Lands End. (The Cliff Line began as the Ferries & Cliff House steam railroad in 1888. It was converted to streetcar operations in 1905.)

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Ulloa & Lennox
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Ulloa & Lennox

K-line MUNI metro streetcar, LRV #1256

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