Powell & Market
Cable Car on turntable. Hotel Powell in background.
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Powell & Market
Passengers on cable car [Etta looking for Ray]
Downtown / Union Square
Market & California
Looking east, Ferry Building; 21-Line trolley bus #623 'Welcome to San Francisco sign' on Ferry Building (replaced 1951). Hotel Terminal, Sea Horse Restaurant. Birdcage traffic signal. The two cars visible have both the older 1947 yelow license plate and the new black 1951 plate, making the date early 1951 before the Ferry Building sign was changed.
Financial District
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
1st & Mission
Streetcar heading into East Bay Terminal, Muni Car #1
South of Market
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
Powell near California
Powell St. between Pine & California. Cable Car #513
Nob Hill
West Portal & Ulloa
L-Line, streetcar #1143. West Portal Library.
West Portal
California & Market
View northeast across California to Foster's in Santa Marin Building; Weinstein Co. Muni Cable Car #60.
Financial District
Church & 27th
Municipal Railway J-Line; streetcar #1023 crossing 27th, heading north on Church. St. Paul's Catholic Church in background.
Noe Valley
Church & 20th
Dolores Park. J-Line car #125 on right of way; Mission High School
Dolores Heights
Powell & Geary
View north on Powell St. to Sam Alhadeff's Flower Stand. St. Francis Hotel at left. Chancellor Hotel, Fairmont Hotel tower in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Top of the Mark
View northwest to Russian Hill. At left, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928. In foreground, roof of Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion), Sproule Mansion, Park Lane Apartments. Washington Mason Cable Car Power House at right.
Nob Hill
Palace Hotel
Market and Geary looking east to new Palace Hotel
Downtown / Union Square
S Van Ness at 26th
Trolley bus #509 at R-line turnaround loop, looking south to Bernal Heights, Signal Gasoline station on corner.
Mission