Tracks

Contains 595 photos

Market & Jones
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Market & Jones

View north on Jones across Market. The Hibernia Bank and Hotel Boyd at left. Anglo Bank at right. Jones Street cable car track is visible. Could be dusk, neon signs illuminated (black and white positive film)

South of Market
Valencia near 18th
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Valencia near 18th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Valencia St. Bet. 18th and 19th] View south. Bent cable car tracks. Men clearing rubble. Perhaps laying sewer line after 1906 earthquake and fire. Bernal Heights in background left. Ruins of Youth Directory (19th and Linda, then Angelica) at far right.

Mission Dolores
Valencia & 19th
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Valencia & 19th

View south on Valencia toward 19th Street. cable car tracks. Electric streetcar lines above to replace cable?

Mission
City Hall Ruins
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City Hall Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south on Larkin between McAllister and Grove. Fallen Columns, cable car tracks on Larkin. [West side of City Hall]

Civic Center
Civic Auditorium
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Civic Auditorium

[Auditorium, San Francisco, California] Elevated view southwest from Main Library (now Asian Arts Museum) towards Exposition Auditorium. Larkin Street in foreground. Entrances to Civic Center Plaza flanked by animal statues.

Civic Center
Cesar Chavez & Guerrero
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Cesar Chavez & Guerrero

View southeast across the intersection of Cesar Chavez (then Army Street) and Guerrero. One of the Victorian homes on this block still stands. (St. Luke's Hospital - CPMC - now dominates this block)

Mission
Jackson near Divisadero
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Jackson near Divisadero

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north across Jackson between Divisadero and Scott. Five women cooking on an outdoor stove, street kitchen. Man in background holding a bucket. Cable car tracks in the street. Houses on Divisadero visible in the background left.

Pacific Heights
Pacific & Webster
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Pacific & Webster

View northeast across intersection toward the north side of the 2200 block of Pacific, between Webster and Buchanan. The only extant building (2020) is 2266 Pacific, third from the left. Cable car tracks in street.

Pacific Heights
Pacific & Laguna
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Pacific & Laguna

The John D. Spreckels mansion, at 2080 Pacific Avenue, Northeast corner of Laguna. Built in 1899. Architects: Reid Brothers. Rounded bay windows and elaborate porticos with Corinthian columns on two sides. Cable car tracks in street.

Pacific Heights
Gough & Pacific
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Gough & Pacific

View north across Pacific to the Rudolph Spreckels residence, 1900 Pacific at the northwest corner of Gough, built in 1899, demolished in 1966 and replaced by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1979.

Pacific Heights
San Jose near Seneca
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San Jose near Seneca

Street scene with tracks, sections of pipe lying alongside street, and open trench. Elkton Shops behind fence.

Cayuga
24th & San Bruno
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24th & San Bruno

Elevated view north to power pole near southeast corner of 24th Street and San Bruno Avenue. Residences across 24th Street still stand (2020). William Shaffer Accident Case. Shaffer sued San Francisco Gas & Electric, United Railroads and Pacific State Telephone and Telegraph on December 22, 1904, claiming that the companies maintained uninsulated guy wires on a pole at 24th and San Bruno, which shocked him and caused him to fall to the street. United Railroads [U00630]

Potrero Hill
Church & 18th
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Church & 18th

United Railroads construction site on Church & 18th Streets, 10:04 AM. Construction of Muni J Church line track. [U05286]

Mission Dolores
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Unknown Location

Victorian homes on street with cable car tracks. (Possibly Union or Sutter Street) Quoins.

Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Victorian homes on street with cable car tracks. (Possibly Union or Sutter Street)