Kearny & Market
View north across Market toward Kearny Street, Lotta's Fountain, de Young / Chronicle Building, cop with young lady, Hayes and Stanyan Park Ferries Cable Car at right.
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Post Near Broderick
View east on Post toward Broderick. A line of children getting on city bus marked Special School Coach and being checked in by a park counselor for bus ride. SF Municipal Railway White motor coach [Recreation & Parks]
Lower Pacific Heights
Old Ferry Building
Elevated view northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building, express wagons, Haight and Valencia Street cable cars, one on turntable. Horse cars lined up. Large banners advertising East Bay real estate, including Peralta Park Southern Annex auction (Sept 1889).
Financial District
Oakland Mole
San Francisco Bay, train tracks, ferry slip and ferry boat
SF Bay
Ellis & Fillmore
View southeast across Ellis toward Fillmore. showing telephone line construction, people posing in horse-drawn wagon. Harvard Dental Parlors 1358 Fillmore, The Carnation, Frank Bros. Clothing, Alfred Lilienfeld & Co. Tailors. 1363-1365 Fillmore. [S.E. Corner Fillmore and Ellis Streets - Aerial Construction 77]
Western Addition
Polk near Filbert
View north on Polk from Filbert, Men working on trench line with telephone conduit at bottom, streetcar in distance, bare hillside on right. See wnp26.1846. (Pacific Telephone Inventory)
Russian Hill
Onondaga near Alemany
View westerly on Onondaga between Mission and future Alemany Blvd. (Ocean Shore Railway tracks cross behind the poles at right) In the background left are Merced Heights, United Railroads Elkton Shops. Firehouse at Ocean Avenue & San Jose Avenue (Balboa Park) at background right. The site of Balboa High School is farm land at center.
Cayuga
Stockton Street Tunnel
View north on Stockton near Bush to Muni F-line streetcar. Colonial Hotel, McAlpin Apartments on left. Hotel Victoria, built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel) in background right.
Downtown / Union Square
Central & Fulton
View south on Central Avenue across Fulton. Buena Vista Park and Hayes Street streetcar in distance.
Western Addition
Sutter & Stockton
View north to construction of Stockton Street Tunnel, Natalia apartments on left.
Downtown / Union Square
Church & Market
Flood in intersection, line of MUNI streetcars and autos waiting to cross. US Mint in background. George's Market and J. H. Wiley Furniture. Buildings in front of Mint no longer stand and are now the Safeway parking lot.
Mission Dolores
Market near 7th
View east from center of Market, accident between Municipal Railway (Muni) K-line PCC streetcar #1027 and auto. Westward Ho! Bar, Rialto Billiards, Army Navy Store, Service Mens Locker Club, sign pointing to Greyhound Station at 7th & Mission, Hotel Shaw, Paramount Theatre on left. David Hewes, Grant, Odd Fellows Buildings, Columbia clothing store 1111 Market, on right. Birdcage traffic signal. (dated circa 1953 based on the license plates and streetcar configuration)
Civic Center
Market & Jones
[S.F. Cal, Mar, 17 '09] Elevated view west across track work and up McAllister Street. Hotel Apollo, Hibernia Bank, Pragers store on its pre-quake site. Old City Hall dome being demolished, dome of Hall of Records in distance center.
Tenderloin
Broadway & Columbus
View east on Broadway to two electric streetcars in distance. Temporary Monaco Photo Studio at left. "Monaco Foto" is on original negative, not the building. Horrigan's liquors to right of Monaco. Large brick building is County Jail.
North Beach
Filbert near Sansome
View west to Filbert steps ascending Telegraph Hill. Streetcar on Sansome St., railroad car on left. Woman crossing street and another with a book on right. Bogart Warehouse Emmon Draying Co., Greenwich Bonded Warehouse at right. Victorian uphill at right is Patrick McDermott house, 218-220 Filbert St., built 1861 and 1882, still stands in 2025. Warehouse building at northwest corner of Filbert and Sansome still stands in 2025, but with significant remodeling into office use. Warehouse building at right demolished. [Return to MGM ART]
Northern Waterfront