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California & Kearny

View east down California to California Street Cable Car #53 about to cross Kearny. Southern Pacific Building with large S-P sign on roof in distance. Scaffolding around Kohl Building. At far left Home Insurance Company Building (around this time, Fireman's Fund) completed 1951 and demolished in 1983. Empty lot with pedestrian safety structure at 550 California, site of Occidental Life Insurance Co. Building, completed 1960. Downhill from construction site, Financial Center Building (1927). Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on side at right. (Cropped version of wnp14.1576.)

1959 Financial District

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McAllister & Larkin

View east on McAllister across Hyde, Municipal Railway (Muni) 5-line streetcar #819, passing the Main Library (now the Asian Art Museum) at right, Hotel Astor at left.

1947 Civic Center

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Mission & 4th

View northwest across intersection to inbound Market Street Railway (MSRy) 14-line streetcar #1625. Birdcage traffic signals.

1937 South of Market

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Mission & South Van Ness

View southeast across Mission to 17-line MSRy streetcar #169, between Lafayette & 12th Streets. H & L. Block Sportswear, 1563 Mission. Dayton-McClaren Tires at left.

1940 South of Market

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Church & Duboce

Three PCC streetcars, looking south

1972 Duboce Triangle

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Guerrero & Dorland

10-line car MSRy #919 southbound

1939 Mission Dolores

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Guerrero & 18th

Market Street Railway (MSRy) 10-line streetcar #919 southbound

1939 Mission Dolores

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Mission Street near 7th

View southwest across Mission to streetcar #817, Hotel Grand Southern, T.J. Topper Coffee Urns 1089 Mission, Wicx-Merit Gloves 1085 Mission St., Hotel Grand Southern, last day. Rail service on Mission ended in mid-January 1949.

1949 South of Market

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Mission & 6th

View southeast down Mission to 11-Line Hoffman Streetcar #838 with wings livery on last day of service of line. Hotels Thomas & Hale. Chronicle Building, Pacific Telephone Building at background left. Tall building at center is the California Casket Co. Building, 965 Mission St., Albert Pissis Architect, built 1906.

1949 South of Market

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Mission near 7th

View southwest across Mission to streetcar #1237 with wings livery, Hotel Grand Southern, T.J. Topper Coffee Urns, 1089 Mission, Wicx-Merit Gloves 1085 Mission. Rail service on Mission ended in mid-January 1949.

1949 South of Market

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Mission Street near 7th

1949 South of Market

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Howard & 8th

View northwest. 35-line MSRy streetcar #287

1938 South of Market

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Geary near 46th Ave

View northwest to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 2-line streetcar #231 with Byllesby Shield logo, in use from late 1925 to 1938. The streetcar has a sign on its front saying that it went directly to the whale off Point Lobos. This refers to a sperm whale which washed up there, amid the pieces of the wrecked SS Ohioan, on February 11, 1938. It was towed away to a tallow plant on Islais Creek on February 16, 1938. In background right, 8122 and 8130 Geary, built in 1922, still stand in 2023 largely unchanged.

1938 Sutro Heights

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Clement near 32nd Ave

2-line #461 westbound, passing Sutro Car House (Former MSRy unit #161 renumbered #461 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #161.)

1949 Richmond Outer

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Clement at Arguello

View northwest across intersection to Muni 2-line streetcar #605 eastbound, turning left from Clement onto Arguello. Rail service on this line ended on July 1, 1949. (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #205 renumbered #605 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni #205.)

1949