Union near Stockton
View west on Union from about Jasper Alley toward Stockton. E-line streetcar passing Union on Columbus. (Ansco Color transparency)
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Market & Sutter
View northwest across Market to intersection of Market, Sansome & Sutter Streets. Office of The Argonaut in Flatiron Building at left. Holbrook Building, Russ Building, Standard Oil Building. Anglo and London Paris National Bank (Albert Pissis, architect). Market Street Railway (MSRy) 4-line streetcar #260 and 2-line car #215. Birdcage traffic signals.
Financial District
Call Building
Call Building dome being dismantled during conversion to Central Tower, viewed from Market St.
Downtown / Union Square
Call Building
Call Building dome being dismantled during conversion to Central Tower, viewed from Market St.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Sansome
View northeast across Market to Sansome toward the Shell Building (built 1929, George Kelham architect) and Crocker-Anglo Trust Company Building at center. The entire block in the foreground demolished for Zellerbach Plaza. Flatiron Building at left. Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect) in distance right.
Financial District
Jones near California
View south on Jones toward Pine Street. O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde Cable Car outbound. Empire Hotel in the background right, Bayview Hill in the distance
Nob Hill
Fillmore & Hayes
View north on Fillmore from Hayes, Municipal Railway (Muni) 22-line streetcar #877 with zip stripe livery stopped at the corner. Uptown Hotel and Temple Sherith-Israel in the background. At right, 890 Hayes, originally the Sisters of the Holy Family Convent.
Alamo Square
Market & Castro
View west toward entrance of Twin Peaks Tunnel. Municipal Railway (Muni) K-line streetcar #104 inbound. Cars waiting at traffic light. Bank of America at left. Birdcage traffic signals. Above streetcar to right, building at 2500 Market houses Sebbelov Cora Lou Confectioners.
Castro
Castro near 24th
View south on Castro toward 24th Street. Post Office, Bank of America to left. Castro cable car #5 going uphill. Castro Street Car House at Jersey street (Now demolished), undeveloped hill top in the background.
Noe Valley
Masonic & Page
Looking north to Park Sanitarium, St. Agnes Church and Panhandle; Muni 32-line streetcar #665. Fan trip occasioned by the ending of rail service on Haight Street. (Former Market Street Railway streetcar #265 was renumbered to #665 to avoid duplication after the 1944 merger)
Haight Ashbury
30th & Church
View northwest across 30th to J-Line #178 with wings livery at terminus. Goldmine Hill, Upper Noe Valley Recreation Center in background. Cropped, higher contrast version at wnp27.2637.
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California & Kearny
View north across the intersection as Muni California Cable Car #53 passes. Pacific Mutual Life Building (1954, demolished 1991), Telegraph Hill in background.
Financial District
Hyde near Jackson
View north on Hyde between Jackson and Pacific. Cable car #507 decorated for TV station KRON Channel 4
Nob Hill
California near Grant
View east on California at Sabin Place to approaching cable car with signage on front and on top for Pope & Talbot Co. 1949 centennial, before much of California Street was rebuilt. 720 California St. (then Hartford Insurance building) at left, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Hotel Yolanda with Hotel Lafayette sign on west wall, Russ Building, House of Lee, Yamato Sukiyaki in Sing Fat Building. Clunie Building in distance left, with Bank of America ad on west side. In distance, Bay Bridge, Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop.
Chinatown
California near Grant
Elevated view northwest across California between Grant and Stockton. Cable Car passing Sabin Place. Shaari Zedek Synagogue at the northeast corner of Stockton and California.
Chinatown