Streetcar

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Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

Looking east toward Ferry Building in distance. Palace Hotel. MSRY streetcar #1579.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Post
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Market & Post

Elevated view southwest across Market to Metropolis Bank Building, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, Examiner Building, Call Building, and Humboldt Bank Building in distance. D-line and other streetcars.

Financial District
Fremont & Market
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Fremont & Market

Elevated view east to Ferry Building, which has large sign on front reading 'Welcome Home.' About 20 streetcars on Market, banner for US Service Club strung over street, Southern Pacific Building at right. From left, Boyd Block, Hansford Building 268 Market (1908), Oceanic Building, 2 Pine Street (Originally Tillman & Bendel Building. George A. Applegarth architect, 1908, 3 stories added 1918), Sherwood (later Bourn) Building, Glenwood Building (with Marvin Shoe Company Sign) and Fife Building (1909, demolished 1966) after 1916 4-story addition, Hotel Terminal, Hotel Lincoln, John Rothschild & Co, Oliver Chilled Plow Co 9 Main St.

Financial District
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

[TEH540] [Market St. March 31 - 1906 SS-109] Elevated view west from 3rd St. Eagleson's Shirts, S.N. Wood & Co. Outfitters, Phelan Building, Flood Building in distance.[G810 SS-109] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

View east on South Drive (Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) near Lincoln. MSRy #961 & #950 on rustic stone bridge . Crowd of passengers at station. [G810 STC-054] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Golden Gate Park
Fillmore near Sutter
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Fillmore near Sutter

View south on Fillmore Street after the earthquake and fire. Decorative steel arches at intersections installed in late 1907. [F45 SEF-019] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Japantown
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

Elevated view looking south on 3rd Street from Market. Two electric streetcars in foreground. Nucleus Hotel at left, Call Building under construction at right. [F45 SSS-070] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Pacific & Kearny
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Pacific & Kearny

Barbary Coast, View northeast across intersection of Columbus, Kearny, and Pacific up Kearny toward Broadway. Parente Brothers Tavern, with stained glass signage on the corner awning for Wreden's Lager, Old Kirk Whiskies, North Star, and ads for Rainier Beer, shoe shine stand to left of doorway. 16-Line Streetcar in background left in front of New Broadway Hotel, having just turned from Broadway. A posed photo, proprietors standing in each business doorway. Most of the buildings in this view still stand in 2021. In doorway of Parente's are posters for a fight promoted by Louis Parente in Coffroth Daly City Arena, Ad Wolgast and Willie Hoppe, set for 9-22-16, but postponed and cancelled, because of weather and threat of legal prosecution. [BC-7][F810 BC-007] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)(AS)

North Beach
Columbus & Kearny
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Columbus & Kearny

View south to Sentinel Building, also called Columbus Tower. Calegaris Pharmacy, Caesar's Grill, United Cigar Co. 15-line streetcar #1734. [Abe Reueff (sic Ruef) Building, 1910 BU-23] [F810 BU-023] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

North Beach
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

View southeast across Market to Examiner Hearst building, decorated for return of California volunteers in Spanish-American War. "Welcome Home Californians" and insignia for battles of Paco and Guam. [Return of the Calif Boys 1899] [F810 CB-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Market
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Kearny & Market

Elevated view past Lotta's Fountain east to Palace Hotel (with Western Pacific in corner retail space), Balboa Building and Metropolis Bank Building in distance. Chronicle Building on left with Geary Street cable car on turntable. El Camino Real bell at lower left.

Downtown / Union Square
4th near Mission
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4th near Mission

View north on 4th to Market Street and Roos Bros. store, St. Francis Hotel in center distance. Hotel Argonaut, Argonaut Tailors, Pacific Building.

South of Market
3rd & Mission
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3rd & Mission

View north on 3rd to Call and Mutual Savings Bank buildings on Market Street. New Hearst Examiner building (opened September, 1911) under construction on right. Aronson Building, Pleasantry Cafe, Winchester Hotel, Hotel Navarre, and 16-line (?) streetcar. Cook Medical Co. on right.

South of Market
Market & Post
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Market & Post

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west to Crocker Building. Streetcar, earthquake ruins. Mutual Bank and Chronicle Buildings on left. [EF-55] [F810 EF-055] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
18th & Dolores
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18th & Dolores

View northeast from Dolores Park (then Mission Park) toward 18th and Dolores. Teenage girl posing. Streetcar passing on 18th. Students seated on median in street. (Mission High School Album)

Mission Dolores