San Jose from Sickles
View northeast on San Jose Avenue from Sickles; Warehouse Wm. Fisher Co. Quality Grocers Hay Grain & Coal; Ocean View Hardware on left. Buildings on right demolished. [dpwbook31 dpw8017]
OceanviewTracks
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Taraval from 31st Ave
[Taraval St. E. from 31 Ave] [dpwbook31 dpw8055] Could be 37th Ave?
Parkside
Taraval & 37th Ave
View west on Taraval from 37th Avenue during construction. Street car tracks in place. Large sand dunes on either side of street. Manhole center foreground. [Taraval St. W. from 37the Ave] [dpwbook31 dpw8056]
Sunset Outer
Embarcadero from Pier 29
Embarcadero south from Pier 29, Merchants Ice And Cold Storage Co. on right. [Embarcadero S. From Pier 26 (Sic)] [dpwbook31 dpw8057]
Northern Waterfront
Embarcadero from Pier 22
[Embarcadero north from Pier 22] [dpwbook31 dpw8058]View north from center of Embarcadero between Folsom and Harrison Sts. YMCA, Ferry Building Tower and electric Sherwin Williams sign at left.
Rincon Hill
Taraval & Great Highway
View east on Taraval from Great Highway showing old terminal of L-line street car tracks. These original tracks between 46th Avenue and Great Highway survived until being replaced 2021. The Belgian blocks lining the rails were preserved and were reused to line the new tracks. [Taraval St. E. from Great Highway] [dpwbook31 dpw8089]
Sunset Outer
Taraval from 42nd Ave
View east on Taraval from 42nd Avenue during Taraval's construction. Street car tracks in place, street unpaved, large sand dunes on either side of street. Golden Gate Heights in background. [Taraval St. E. from 42nd Ave] [dpwbook31 dpw8090]
Sunset Outer
Bosworth Bridge
View north on Bosworth from south of Southern Pacific's Bosworth Street Bridge. The bridge showing cracks above the arch, it was slated for demolition in the widening of the Bernal Cut (now San Jose Avenue) Interstate Freeway I280 passes through this view today. [Bosworth St Bridge][dpwbook32 dpw8465]
St. Marys Park
Market near 19th
Market (then Falcon) near 19th (then Mono). Picket fence in front of Berendt Joost House, 104 Falcon Ave. (Now 3224 Market Street, the Miller-Joost house is SFLandmark no. 79) [Joost House Willow NW corner Falcon & Mono Sts.] [dpwbook32 dpw8520]
Eureka Valley
Market & 19th
View across Market to southeast corner of Falcon (now Market) & Mono (now 19th Street). [S.E. Cor. Falcon & Mono Sts. dpwbook32 dpw8522]. From left to right, 3201-3, 3207, and 3221-3223 Market extant as of 2023.
Eureka Valley
Commodore Sloat School
View east across Junipero Serra Boulevard between Ocean and Darien Way toward Commodore Sloat School. K-Line streetcar tracks in the foreground. [Commodore Sloat School dpwbook32 dpw8679]
Balboa Terrace
Sacramento & Market
View southwest across Sacramento Street at Market, The Goodall Building on the gore with United Cigar Store. Hotel Terminal in the background. Tracks of the Sacramento-Clay cable car line in the foreground. This intersection is now the site of Embarcadero Plaza. [Goodall Bldg Sacramento & Market] [dpwbook33 dpw8771]
Financial District
Lands End
View west from El Camino Del Mar (also called Lincoln Park Blvd and Harding Blvd) towards Marine Exchange Lookout. Private right-of way for Market Street Railway (MSRy) 1-line streetcars at right. Retaining wall being constructed by DPW to protect streetcar tracks. The route is now part of the Lands End walking trail. (2022)[Lincoln Park Blvd] [dpwbookSPECIMP16 dpwbook33 dpw8808]
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Taraval from 33rd Ave
View east on Taraval from 33rd Avenue toward the south side of the street. Williams Grocery, later Gene's Liquors in background on 32nd Avenue.[dpwbook33 dpw8901]
Parkside
Taraval & 31st Ave
View east on Taraval toward the south side of the street. Five residences on 2000 block built in 1919, some still standing. [dpwbook33 dpw8903]
Parkside