2-line streetcar crash
View southwest across the intersection of 33rd and Geary Boulevard. Yellow cab collided with inbound 2-line streetcar #211 (with zip stripe livery) as it turned from Geary onto 33rd Avenue on a rainy night.
Richmond OuterTaxi
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Broadway & Columbus
View east across intersection to Condor Nightclub, 'Topless Where It Began With Carol Doda'
Chinatown
Market at Drumm
View north across Market to MUNI "Training Car", Foster's Cafeteria at 114 Market Santa Marina Building, view north across Market
Financial District
California near Hyde
View east from center of California below Hyde, 2 cable cars (California to Van Ness service started in May, 1954) passing each other just west of Hyde Street.Cal-Hyde Market, Eppler's Bakery, Conradi's Drugs. One is #5.
Nob Hill
Powell & Post
View south from center of Powell, St Francis and Chancellor Hotels at right, Fitzhugh Building, Roos-Atkins, Union Square at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Embarcadero
J-Church streetcar at Ferry Building, 'Port of San Francisco' sign on Ferry Building
Financial District
Geary & Stockton
View southeast across Geary to B-Line Market Street Railway #147, City of Paris and I. Magnin department stores in background. Linen Palace.
Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Post
Elevated view north from center of Kearny over traffic. Maskey's Candy, Brooks Camera, The Derby on right Oregon City Woolen Mills on left. Pauson's, Sutter Hotel in distance right. Bonds, Sherman Clay in distance left.
Downtown / Union Square
Townsend near 3rd
View southeast across Townsend to Muni Original F-line #11 with wings livery, Southern Pacific Passenger Depot with wooden scaffolding on east (front) face. Libby, McNeill & Libby canners in Harron, Rickard & McCone Building 139 Townsend (Built 1909, still standing 2021), Union Oil service station, Clark Bros. Motor Transport System, Birdcage traffic signals, Muni 27-line #0190 bus in distance left. [AS]
South of Market
1st & Mission
View north down 1st to 8-line #149, turning at East Bay Terminal. Shell Building, Western Neckwear Co., J.R. Rosenthal Co., The Commuter, Foster's Cafeteria.
South of Market
California & Joice
View east on California St. Cable Car #11 ascending hill. Bay Bridge in distance. Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (later Cogswell College and Ritz-Carlton) at center. Tall building in center background is Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969).
Nob Hill
California below Stockton
View northeast cross California St. to California St. Cable Railroad Co. Cable Car going uphill between Grant and Stockton. 720 California, then Hartford Insurance Building, on left, Cathay House restaurant, Old Saint Mary's cathedral and rectory.
Chinatown
Market near Taylor
View northeast across Market to 32-Line #444 on Market Street west bound approaching Taylor. Track reconstruction in progress, to convert the street tracks from 4-track to 2-track. Loew's Warfield theater with elaborate marquee, Dean Building, Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Esquire Theater, Flood Building in distance. (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #144 renumbered #444 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #144.)
South of Market
Clement & 6th Ave
View west across intersection to Muni 2-Line #241 Eastbound on Clement at 6th Ave, another in distance. Coliseum Furs, Ed's Togs, Dr. G.W. Smith optometrist, Clement Hotel (540 Clement), Nino's Barber Shop on right. Lick Market, Coliseum Theatre in distance on left. Most buildings in photo still stand in 2025. Rail service on this line ended on July 1, 1949.
Richmond Inner
View from Mark Hopkins
View looking steeply down to Mason St. Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club) at left. Sproule Mansion, Park Lane Apartments beyond.
Nob Hill