View from Telegraph Hill
View southwest toward North Beach and Russian Hill. Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church, Palace Theater on Washington Square at lower right. (Ansco Color transparency)
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Market & Sutter
View northwest across Market to intersection of Market, Sansome & Sutter Streets. Office of The Argonaut in Flatiron Building at left. Holbrook Building, Russ Building, Standard Oil Building. Anglo and London Paris National Bank (Albert Pissis, architect). Market Street Railway (MSRy) 4-line streetcar #260 and 2-line car #215. Birdcage traffic signals.
Financial District
Market & Sansome
View northeast across Market to Sansome toward the Shell Building (built 1929, George Kelham architect) and Crocker-Anglo Trust Company Building at center. The entire block in the foreground demolished for Zellerbach Plaza. Flatiron Building at left. Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect) in distance right.
Financial District
Fillmore & Hayes
View north on Fillmore from Hayes, Municipal Railway (Muni) 22-line streetcar #877 with zip stripe livery stopped at the corner. Uptown Hotel and Temple Sherith-Israel in the background. At right, 890 Hayes, originally the Sisters of the Holy Family Convent.
Alamo Square
Market & Castro
View west toward entrance of Twin Peaks Tunnel. Municipal Railway (Muni) K-line streetcar #104 inbound. Cars waiting at traffic light. Bank of America at left. Birdcage traffic signals. Above streetcar to right, building at 2500 Market houses Sebbelov Cora Lou Confectioners.
Castro
Masonic & Page
Looking north to Park Sanitarium, St. Agnes Church and Panhandle; Muni 32-line streetcar #665. Fan trip occasioned by the ending of rail service on Haight Street. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #265 was renumbered to #665 to avoid duplication after the 1944 merger)
Haight Ashbury
30th & Church
View northwest across 30th to J-Line #178 with wings livery at terminus. Goldmine Hill, Upper Noe Valley Recreation Center in background. Cropped, higher contrast version at wnp27.2637.
Fairmount
Market near 7th
View east on Market toward 7th during BART construction. Municipal Railway (MUNI) PCC streetcar #1016. Construction equipment. Locker Club on north side of Market, demolished for United Nations Plaza. Crocker Center (McKesson) at Post and Market under construction in distance
South of Market
West Portal & Ulloa
Twin Peaks Tunnel. MUNI M-Line streetcar #176
West Portal
Broad near San Jose
View east on Broad between Plymouth and San Jose Avenue at the end of the line. M-line PCC streetcar #1129. St. Michael's Church (most of block including the church demolished).
Oceanview
Fillmore near Vallejo
View north on Fillmore between Broadway and Vallejo. MSRy counterbalance cars #625 and #627
Pacific Heights
Mission & Trumbull
View northwest across Mission Street from Trumbull just south of Mission viaduct. MSRy streetcar 40-Line Interurban #1230. Future Diamond Heights and Fairmount tract in background. St John the Evangelist Catholic Church (1893), St. John's School (1910, later demolished) and St. John's Ursuline Convent (1916) in distance right.
Mission Terrace
47th & Wawona
View north on 47th Avenue at Wawona. L-line Zoo Terminal. Streetcar #142 and others.
Parkside
Haight & Baker
View east on Haight from Baker. MSRy 6-line, streetcar #424. John C. Spencer House at 1080 Haight on left.
Buena Vista
6th Ave & California
View north on 6th Avenue from California. MUNI 4-line streetcar #778.
Richmond Inner