Contains 8537 photos
View east on Geary to Lotta's Fountain and Sheraton Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building with Eureka Federal Savings & Loan. Muni N-line streetcar #124 with wings livery, ad for St. Francis Mural Room and sign for Football Today at Kezar Stadium. Stag Bar and Dinty's Kitchen on right in Flannery Building. Granville's Jewelers on left. Top Hat bar and Dr. M.B. Rich optometrist. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
View east down Geary to Lotta's Fountain, Sheraton Palace Hotel, Chronicle and Monadnock Building (with Eureka Federal Savings). Mun C-Line streetcar #208 with wings livery. Foster's Cafeteria, Schmidt Building, Granville's Jewelers on left, Stag bar on right. Birdcage traffic signal. (Rail service on Lines B & C ended in December 1956)
Downtown / Union Square
View north on 11th toward Market. Muni Magic Carpet streetcar #1004 marked for H-Line, which stopped rail service in 1950. Probably a rail fan excursion run. Gough Auto Repair and Peeters & Sons Storage at right. Buildings at right demolished.
South of Market
View southeast on 30th from Church toward Chenery. MUNI Magic Carpet J-Line streetcar #1004 with wings livery. Bernal Heights in background.
Noe Valley
View southwest across intersecttion to Muni (former Market Street Railway (MSRy)) Powell Street cable car #507 crossing California Street with advertisement for 'The Voice of the Turtle' playing at the Geary Theatre. Stanford Court Hotel (then apartments) in the background. Car is still painted with pre-merger Market Street Railway (MSRy) shield. (Ansco Color transparency)
Nob Hill
View north on Stockton from the top of the Stockton Tunnel toward Sacramento Street.
Nob Hill
View east on Pacific between Taylor and Salmon Alley toward Mason. Bay Bridge in the background, Cable Car on Mason Street crossing Pacific
Nob Hill
View west on Eddy from Powell. Powell Street cable car #501 on the turntable. Eddy street is now blocked to traffic at this point and most building on the left were demolished for Hallidie Plaza. Bank of America with large electric clock in entry in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on California between Stockton and Powell. Two cable cars passing each other (blurry)
Nob Hill
View west on from the foot of Market Street across a fenced-in landscaped area in ferry loop plaza. MUNI starters kiosk at center. Buildings on the immediate blocks closest to the camera have all been demolished for plazas. Hobart, Call Buildings in the distance. Ensign Cafe, Alameda Cafe, Hotel Terminal, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop.
Financial District
View north on 9th Avenue between Irving and Judah. Municipal Railway (Muni) N-Judah PCC streetcar #1131 outbound. [track reconstruction, single track operation on 9th Avenue]
Sunset Inner
View north on Market at Collingwood, Muni PCC streetcar #1107 emerging from Collingwood Portal of Twin Peaks Tunnel during construction of the Market Street Subway.
Castro
View west on Ocean. Telephoto view from pedestrian overpass. MUNI PCC streetcars #1169 and #1103. Grand Auto Supply on right at 1150 Ocean. Intersection of Harold Ave on far left.
Sunnyside
Geneva and San Jose Avenue (Now Curtis E. Green Light Rail Center) View north over LRV parking with Boeing streetcars. MUNI PCC streetcar #1152 with Landor Livery at left. Mt. Davidson in background. Parking lot in the foreground is now occupied by a Muni building.
Cayuga
View southwest on West Portal from Ulloa. MUNI M-Line PCC streetcar #1135. View of south side businesses.
West Portal