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View west from center of Market to streetcars stopped in front of Twin Peaks Tunnel. Bank of America, Lucca Italian Restaurant. Bird cage traffic signal. Twin Peaks in distance. [D-5006 Market Street Rec. Castro St. Branch-off & tunnel approach View west]
Castro
Elevated view southeast from top of Twin Peaks tunnel approach to Market, Castro, 17th Street intersection. Bank of America at right. Birdcage traffic signal. [D-5007 Market Street Rec. Tunnel Approach View East]
Castro
Empty #1 Municipal Railway car on Castro line. Fan trip? Grocery on corner advertising Spreckels Russell dairy on awning. (see also wnp4.1278)
Eureka Valley
#7 cable car of Market Street Railway with cow catcher and American flags. Neighborhood Stores Inc. grocery on corner.
Eureka Valley
Elevated view southeast across Market Street, to Hearst Examiner Building under construction, Call Building, Palace Hotel. Montgomery Market, Swan the Painter, The Oxford House 719 Market. Ettinger's Fringe Factory, New Creamerie Restaurant, Butler-Schutze Co., Whitaker & Ray Books in Bancroft History Building at right. [8703 Claus Spreckels Building, S.F. Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
[19th Ave. Blvd. - Lincoln Way - Presidio-Park Blvd. dpwA-7245] Elevated rooftop view northeast towards Breon Gate entrance to Golden Gate Park at 19th Ave., backyards, service stations, and streetcar on the 7-line.
Sunset Outer
View west at G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) arch. Wagons, horses, and cable car visible.
South of Market
View northwest to south colonnade section of old City Hall complex, before construction of dome atop this structure completed in 1897. View across City Hall Avenue, which no longer exists. Omnibus Cable Railroad Car #12. Same image as wnp71.1571, different cropping.
Civic Center
View west from City Hall Ave & McAllister to Hall of Records, City Hall (before dome constructed), Mechanics Pavilion (1882) in distance on left, McAllister St. on right. No cable car tracks on City Hall Ave., which were added in 1889.
Civic Center
Looking south on Embarcadero. Auto tunnel at lower right was there from 1920-1955. Muni Railway E Car #351, built in 1922.
Elevated view east on Market to large Knights Templar hanging decoration over intersection. Large electric car crossing, these cars only had hand brakes but no air brakes so they had a lot of accidents and only lasted about 10 years. Chronicle Bldg., Crocker Bldg., Union Trust bldg., Palace Hotel, and Nucleus block.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west down Market St. Ruins of Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, Call Bldg., Crocker Bldg., Postal Telegraph (original Hobart) Bldg. Starting to run electric streetcars on cable car tracks. [View from ferry looking up Market St. #39 Bushnell Foto Co.]
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Clock Tower/Gable fell in Earthquake. [The Old Funeral Car - Scene in 29th St Carhouse caused by the terrible earthquake]
Bernal Heights
Looking East toward downtown. Jackson Street Cable Car. Turntable.
Presidio Heights
View south across California Street to Leland Stanford, Sr. Mansion (later site of the Stanford Court Apartments and Stanford Court Hotel). S.C. Bugbee and Son, architects. Mark Hopkins mansion at right. Spires of Temple Emanu El on Sutter Street in distance left.
Nob Hill