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Fillmore & Sutter
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Fillmore & Sutter

View north on Fillmore from Sutter, the first streetcar running 10 days after the earthquake. The car ran from the Fillmore and Turk barn north to Broadway, then turned around came back down Fillmore with Mayor Eugene Schmitz at the controls. (not sure this is the first trip based on the afternoon light.) [First Car on Fillmore Street after the Earthquake Fire, 1906]

Lower Pacific Heights
14th Ave & Lincoln
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14th Ave & Lincoln

View southwest from inside the 'Boneyard' storage facility to Market Street Railway (MSRy) #1666; Irving Theater on right; Old St. Anne's Church at left.

Sunset Inner
Geneva & Ocean
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Geneva & Ocean

Market Street Railway's Geneva Yard, Geneva and Ocean Avenue. Group of people, mostly young men on rail fan excursion, posing with MSRy's special sightseeing car 'San Francisco, sign says Special Car. The San Francisco car was typically used for SF school children free of charge as transportation to special events.

Cayuga
Treat & Cesar Chavez
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Treat & Cesar Chavez

30-Line; #840 [#30 Line at Treat Avenue & Army St. 1/9/43; #840 just removed from storage]

Mission
Florida & Precita
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Florida & Precita

View southeast to MSRy 36-Line #901 [#36 lines. Running full time week days] Duplicate of wnp27.3603

Peralta Heights
South San Francisco
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South San Francisco

Market Street Railway, Interurban 40-Line; #1731 [Excursion Car on #40 Line]

Outside SF
California near Powell
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California near Powell

View east to approaching cable car; University Club (1908, Bliss & Faville architects) and Fairmont Hotel on left. Stanford Apartments, later Stanford Court Hotel, at right.

Nob Hill
California & Leavenworth
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California & Leavenworth

View southwest across intersection to California Cable Car Railroad Co. car on California Street. Both buildings still stand in 2020.

Nob Hill
Embarcadero near Mission
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Embarcadero near Mission

Looking north at the Ferry Building with traffic and streetcars; Knight & Counihan & Co.; Billboards; pedestrian overpass

Financial District
Market near Church
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Market near Church

Flooded street view south across Market toward Church Street, cars driving through flooded intersection. [SF 600384....New York Bureau; Flash Flood hits San Francisco -- Automobiles plowed through hub-deep water from curb to curb here when a 'flash flood' -- caused by .55-of-an-inch of rain in thirty minutes -- drenched the city and left the highest seasonal rainfall total in fifty-years.] Market Street Restaurant, 2097 Market.

Mission Dolores
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Embarcadero with vehicles, Mail Streetcar; horse car

Financial District
Columbus & Broadway
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Columbus & Broadway

[Traffic Conditions] Looking south down Columbus; E-Line Streetcar at left; pedestrian safety island. Montgomery Block at end of Columbus

North Beach
Columbus & Stockton
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Columbus & Stockton

View north across Columbus toward Green and Stockton at right. 532 Columbus (with original dome) at center. Building at right demolished The spires of Ss. Peter & Paul Church in the background. E-line streetcar at left. Birdcage traffic signals.

North Beach
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

View northeast across Embarcadero, with cable cars; smoke billowing from Ferry Boat. Ferry Station Post Office (1901-1915) at right.

Financial District
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Elevated view north to sidewalk outside Ferry Building, large, well dressed crowd gathering for event. Palm frond decorations on streetlamps. Streetcars in distance left.

Financial District