Mission Bay Switch Tower
Bay Bridge/ Skyline from Mariposa. Engine smoking
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Market & Dolores
View north from Dolores to south side of US Mint, SF Muni PCC streetcar #1140. California Volunteers Memorial at right. Billboard for Joe Bortin who ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1960 and 1964.
Castro
Powell & Market
SF Municipal Railway (MUNI) PCC streetcar #1183 (Ex. Toronto PCC). Emporium in background.
Downtown
Church near 20th
Looking north. Dolores Park in background. SF Muni PCC streetcar #1040
Castro
Lands End
View west from near Lands End promontory. Cliff Line right-of-way, Marine Exchange Lookout, Helmet Rock, Lands End Beach (also Mile Rocks Beach).
Lands End
Lands End
View northeast towards Golden Gate with Cliff Line streetcar cut where the tunnel was removed during conversion from steam trains to electric streetcars.
Lands End
Lands End
Ferries & Cliff House steam train with passenger cars, viewed looking NE from Lands End Station. Graffiti on rock for C&S Axle Grease. Marin Headlands in left distance. (Also called the Cliff Line train. It was converted to electric streetcar operations in 1905.)
Lands End
San Bruno & 3rd
View northerly, autos and streetcar. Mt St. Joseph with orphanage atop in background.
Portola
18th & Castro
View southwest across intersection to Castro Cable car #3 loading passengers. Sign Reads 'P.H. McCarthy Club' (SF Mayor 1909-1912). Wulzen's Drug Store at right.
Castro
Columbus & Kearny
View across intersection to northwest corner of Columbus & Kearny St. Hotel Vendome. Streetcar #16. In distance left, St. Francis of Assisi Church being rebuilt, with ladders and scaffolding. At right, Hotel Broadway, New Commerce Hotel. At far left Hirsch Bros. clothing.
North Beach
Clay & Waverly Pl
View east. Cable car track. Note: two men looking over from roof
Chinatown
California near Grant
View east on California, from left to Sing Chong Co., Old Saint Mary's Church and rectory, Ferry Building, Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building, Merchants Exchange, Clunie Building, Hotel Yale, Helvetia Hotel, Sing Fat Co.
Chinatown
Montgomery & Washington
View southeeast across Columbus. Italian Popular Bank (Fugazi Banca Popolare Operaia Italiana) building (built 1908) at gore between Columbus (then Montgomery Ave.), Washington, and Montgomery, also known as the Fugazi Bank Building, which exists today as San Francisco Landmark #52. Before 1914, a third story was added. In addition, the building was extended northward and later the cupola was removed. It housed the Bank of America and Transamerica Corporation. Columbus Savings Bank Building, (Built 1905, also known as Columbia Savings Bank, San Francisco Landmark #212) at center, Montgomery Block at right. Outbound Presidio & Ferries Streetcar #26 in distance.
North Beach
Mission High School
1906 Earthquake and Fire, 18th and Dolores, food distribution breadline following 1906 earthquake
Mission
California near Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view west up California Street. Fairmont Hotel, Old St. Mary's Cathedral Grace Church in distance. Kohl Building, Parrott Block. Bank of California under construction at Sansome corner at right. Fireman's Fund Building across Sansome at left reduced to 2 stories and partially restored. At far left, Mutual Life Insurance Building. In distance left, Merchants Exchange Building. Beyond Bank of California construction at right, London & San Francisco Bank Building with flag on roof, showing earthquake damage to exterior, but occupied by Otis, Mc Allister & Co. coffee importers starting in late June, 1906. Just beyond, 3 story building with light granite facade is Mercantile Trust Co. building (Albert Pissis, Architect, 1903)
Financial District