Streetcar

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Church & 14th
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Church & 14th

View north MSRY 22-line streetcars #824, #30x? pass in flooded street. Looking north on Church. St. Francis Lutheran Church, then Ansgar Danish Evangelical Lutheran church) in background.

Duboce Triangle
14th Ave & Irving
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14th Ave & Irving

Elevated view northeast over Municipal Railway (Muni) streetcar boneyard. Rail service ended on the E-line and all 'dinky' streetcars (in foreground) were scrapped soon after. Houses on Funston Avenue in background, Golden Gate Park in distance. Visible in front of rows are cars #292, #299 and #698.

Sunset Inner
Monterey & Detroit
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Monterey & Detroit

Market Street Railway (MSRy) 10-line streetcar #unk

Sunnyside
26th & Treat
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26th & Treat

View southeast to MSRY 27-line streetcar #849. Westbound on 26th Street approaching Treat Avenue. Houses in background are on east side of Harrison St. Bernal Heights in background.

Mission
Bayshore & Leland
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Bayshore & Leland

View north to Bayview Hill on right. Edison Hotel, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 16-line streetcar #956 with zip stripe livery approaching. Bodinson Manufacturing Company at right.

Visitacion Valley
Market & Church
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Market & Church

Municipal Railway (Muni) 22-line streetcar #865 with zip stripe livery heading south on Church, looking north on Market

Duboce Triangle
Columbus & Broadway
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Columbus & Broadway

View northwest across intersection to Market Street Railway (MSRy) unknown line streetcar #808, crossing Columbus. Verdi Theatre (later World Theatre) in background left. Rail service ended on this line in 1946

Chinatown
32nd Ave & Clement
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32nd Ave & Clement

View northwest from 32nd Avenue & Clement intersection to Market Street Railway (MSRy) Sutro Car House. Originally built 1895 as the streetcar house for the Sutro Rail Road Company.

Richmond Outer
Elkton Yard
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Elkton Yard

MSRY streetcar #407. Scrapping in 1941 at Market Street Railway's Elkton Shops yard.

Cayuga
Balboa & La Playa
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Balboa & La Playa

View north to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 7-line streetcar #166 at Playland at the Beach terminus. Shoot the Chutes ride on left, Sutro Heights in background.

Richmond Outer
Lincoln & 14th Ave
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Lincoln & 14th Ave

View east from Market Street Railway streetcar storage facility 'boneyard'. Car #0603. Saint Anne's Church in background.

Sunset Inner
5th & Mission
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5th & Mission

View northwest across 5th Street to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 25-line streetcar with zip stripe livery. Old U.S. Mint in background.

South of Market
PPIE
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PPIE

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, View of Fair and Tower of Jewels, taken from rooftop near Green and Fillmore in Pacific Heights.

Pacific Heights
Fillmore & McAllister
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Fillmore & McAllister

Ornamental ironwork over intersection. Streetcars, autos, City Hall in distance.

Alamo Square
Market near 2nd
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Market near 2nd

Elevated view east, probably from the Hobart Building. Southeast corner of Standard Oil Building at far left, Flatiron Building, Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect), Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop, Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Building, PG&E Building completed 1925, Cunard Line sign on Hooker & Lent Building at southwest corner of 1st and Market (renamed Cunard Building in 1917), Stevenson Building at southeast corner. Underwood Building 525 Market at lower right. Sansome Street at lower left. At center left, at 130 Bush Street, is a rare view of the 20 foot wide Heineman Building, before the construction of its much larger neighbors the Adam Grant and Shell Buildings, with a painted sign for H.M. Heineman Sons, manufacturers of neckwear.

Financial District