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.
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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
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
Market Street Railway Sunday shuttle 27-line streetcar #286.
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
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
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
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
MSRy Market Street Railway Work Car #0130. Ocean Avenue near San Jose?
Market St. Railway (MSRy) L-line streetcar #1716
Parkside
Streetcar exiting West Portal of Twin Peaks Tunnel (little camera movement).
West Portal
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
Ocean Terminal of SF Muni Streetcar #884, 12-line across from SF Zoo / Fleishhacker Zoo.
Parkside
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
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
[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.
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