Evans from Cesar Chavez
Evans from Army St. (now Cesar Chavez) [dpwbookXXX dpw A6711]
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3rd & 16th
View north on the elevated auto/streetcar viaduct above 3rd Street and 16th Street. The viaduct allowed automobile and streetcar traffic to pass through the extensive railroad yards in the area. to Bay Bridge in the distance [3rd & 16th Sts. Viaduct][dpwbookXXX dpwA7251]
Mission Bay
SP Freight Yard
View northeast from the rof of a building at about 17th & Mississippi toward Southern Pacific freight yards and and the t-shaped elevated auto and streetcar viaduct at 16th Street and 3rd Street. The Elevated I280 Freeway dominates this view today. (2021) [3rd & 16th Sts. Viaduct][dpwbookXXX dpwA7252]
Mission Bay
Clayton & Market
View southeast on Clayton toward Market showing the streetcar tracks of the 18th & Park line (later 33-line) [Clayton/Market; rt. Turn from Market dpwbookSPECIMP17 dpwA357]
Eureka Valley
Clayton & Market
View south on Clayton toward Market, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 33-line streetcars #768 and #767 demonstrating operations near the switchback. [Clayton St. at Market; streetcar operation dpwbookSPECIMP17 dpwA359]
Eureka Valley
California near Montgomery
View southwest across California to California Market Building; stationer's sign high on nearby building; cars line street
Financial District
Grant & Geary
View south on Grant to sidewalk flower stand; slightly blurred due to camera movement. Geary streetcar at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Ocean near SP right of way
Elkton Shops and Muni M-line Streetcar #1125
Mission Terrace
Haight & Divisadero
MUNI (Municipal Railway) 7-line Streetcar #168
Lower Haight
Ocean & San Jose
Elkton Yard looking east toward Firehouse and Balboa Park; scrapping MSRy #750
Cayuga
Ocean & San Jose
Elkton Yard. Damaged Municipal Railway (Muni) streetcar #128
Cayuga
O'Farrell & Market
View southeast to terminus of California Street Cable RR Co. Car #57 at Grant. (Muni took over this line at the beginning of 1952.). In background, Morris Plan in Kamm Building before facade makeover, Progressive Optical, Silver Palace Theatre and Stanford Jewelry in Bancroft Building, Schwabacher-Frey Stationers, Grant Market, Pacific States Savings and Loan Co. American Trust Bank at left. At right, corner of Phelan Building with United Cigar store.
Downtown / Union Square
Castro & Jersey
View northwest across intersection to Market St. Railway Co. Castro Cable Car #3. Castro Street Car House is off camera to right.
Noe Valley
Hayes near Webster
View northwest across Hayes to approaching MSRy 21-Line #102. Building at right no longer extant 2019, remainder are.
Hayes Valley
Union Square
Elevated view southeast from United Airlines Building (former Argonaut Club) at Powell & Post. Lighting on trees for Salvation Army Tree of Lights campaign. Whittell Building, City of Paris, I. Magnin, Macy's, Blum's, Werner's, Dohrmann's, Western Air Lines, Union Pacific Railroad office with very large billboard on roof. Birdcage traffic signals. Gray Line bus. (AS)
Downtown / Union Square