Streetcar

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San Bruno & Wilde
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San Bruno & Wilde

Market Street Railway 25-line streetcar #884 in front of 5 Mile House. San Francisco Fire Department Engine Company #47 station in right background.

Portola
Precita & Alabama
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Precita & Alabama

View northeast toward Potrero Hill in the background. 25-line streetcar #1076 turning from Alabama onto Precita, Precita Park (then Bernal Park) corner at left

Bernal Heights
26th & Mission
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26th & Mission

Market Street Railway Sunday shuttle 27-line streetcar #286.

Mission
2nd & Mission
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2nd & Mission

View northeast across intersection to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 27-line #740 with Eclipse Fender on 2nd crossing Mission St. Railway Express Agency Inc., formerly Wells Fargo Express Building.

South of Market
Stockton & Market
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Stockton & Market

Elevated view easterly on Market toward Stockton and 4th. Parade of Municipal Railway buses (led by heavily festooned bus) celebrating the replacement of streetcars on the 5-McAllister and 21-Hayes streetcar lines. State (former California) Theatre, Portola Theatre, Diamond Palace, Taverne Bon Gout, Roos Bros. on left [RS1146 California as State CAL-033 3 June 1948 Muni Buses]

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 10th
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Market near 10th

Fox Theatre, view northeast on Market toward Larkin, Empire Hotel in the background. Municipal Railways streetcar #1 passing the theatre ( during Muni's 50th Anniversary celebration, streetcar #1 was refurbished) [RS1200 Fox SF Fox-55 October 1962]

Civic Center
Market near O'Farrell
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Market near O'Farrell

View southeast across Market to Hub Theatre in Bancroft Building, Hearst Examiner Building and Central Tower (Call Building) at left. The Morris Plan in remodeled Kamm Building, Land Bros. Sporting Goods, Greyhound Bus office. Hub Theatre marquee showing 'Our Man Flint' with 'Von Ryan's Express' 'All men 30 years older than their wives in free!' Municipal Railway streetcar #1105 [RS1228 Hub Theatre ca 1966]

Downtown / Union Square
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

MSRy Market Street Railway Work Car #0130. Ocean Avenue near San Jose?

Sloat near Great Highway
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Sloat near Great Highway

Market St. Railway (MSRy) L-line streetcar #1716

Parkside
Twin Peaks Tunnel
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Twin Peaks Tunnel

Streetcar exiting West Portal of Twin Peaks Tunnel (little camera movement).

West Portal
Market & 1st
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Market & 1st

View north across Market. Pedestrians crossing at 1st Street. Donahue (Mechanics) View northeast across Market to Mechanics Monument in plaza across street. Union Carbide, in 22 Battery, Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect), Dante's Inferno restaurant, 450 Market (demolished), Tilden Sales building, 420 Market, with water tower on top (demolished).

Financial District
Sloat near Great Highway
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Sloat near Great Highway

Ocean Terminal of SF Muni Streetcar #884, 12-line across from SF Zoo / Fleishhacker Zoo.

Parkside
Stockton near Sutter
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Stockton near Sutter

View north towards Stockton Street Tunnel. Municipal Railway F-line streetcar passing Dalma Garage. Hotel Navarre at left, in distance Hotel Victoria, built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel). Buildings at right demolished for Sutter-Stockton garage.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 8th
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Market near 8th

Elevated view looking east on Market. American Theatre (later Embassy Theatre) at center. National Hotel, Rosenblum & Abraham Tailors, Flood Building, Ferry Building in distance left. [CK004 Embassy SF as American Market Street View pre-1916]

South of Market
Market & 7th
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Market & 7th

[CK007 Embassy as Rialto September 1919] Elevated view west on Market. Odd Fellows Building and Rialto Theater (later Embassy), Hotel Whitcomb at left. Decorative arch over street 'To President Wilson The French Colony" "France, Amerique". Streetlights decorated with American Flags.

Tenderloin