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View east from Drumm toward California Street and Ferry Building. Foster's Lunch in Santa Marina Building and Weinstein Company. (Buildings demolished). Cal Street Cable RR Cable Car #1 at California, Drumm & Market
Financial District
View west toward Sacramento Street behind Market Street Railway (MSRy) 31-line streetcar #979 with zip stripe livery. Hotel Terminal, Heinz 57 sign, landscaped area in center of plaza with Muni starter kiosk. (Buildings demolished for Embarcadero Center and Embarcadero Plaza)
Financial District
View west across Market up Geary. Lotta's Fountain at right center. From left, Flood Building, Phelan Building, Bankers Investment Building, Magee Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building with Bank of America branch, Flannery Building (with Painless Parker Dentist branch opened September, 1946, The Stag Bar and Acme Beer signs). Whittell Building, Granville's Jewelers at right. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 7-line Streetcar #161 at center, B and C-Line streetcars at right. Dr. Willetts Chiropractor, W & H Cigars & Liquors, Foster's Cafeteria.
Downtown / Union Square
View south on 5th Street from near Market. Hale Brothers, F. W. Woolworth, Hotel Lankershim, Pickwick Hotel. Crowd of passengers trying to board the car. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 40-line Streetcar #1241, 5th & Market St.
South of Market
View south on Mission across S. Van Ness intersection, Motorola G. Hadicke Co., Firestone Tire Service Co, H & L Block sportswear 1563 Mission, and Union 76 Gas Station to left. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 9-line Streetcar #1531, Mission at S. Van Ness. Birdcage traffic signal.
South of Market
View west across Market toward Turk St. Dewey Warren Headquarters, Doctor H.H. Brady Dentist, Alice Wonder Hamburger, and billboard for Rainer Beer. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) PCC #1008, Market Street. Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument before 1948 move to Golden Gate Park.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Market, Pix Theater, Esquire Theater, Humboldt Bank Building, Emporium Building, Hale Bros. and J.C. Penny Company. Rainy day, many people on the sidewalk. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 7-line - Streetcar #150, Market at Mason. Street decorated for Shrine convention. Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Market to vacant Ford dealership building, Ace Auto & Truck Rental, Coliseum Bowl (45 11th St.), and Jersey Lunch (1501 Market). Municipal Railway (Muni) H-line Streetcar #94. Birdcage traffic signals.
Civic Center
View southeast across Market to vacant Ford dealership building, Ace Auto & Truck Rental, Coliseum Bowl (45 11th St.), and Jersey Lunch (1501 Market). Municipal Railway (Muni) H-line Streetcar #94. Birdcage traffic signals.
Civic Center
Looking west on Sutter from Grant. Park Hotel, Piccadilly Inn, Hotel Francis, Goodman's, Baldwin Piano, Maxine Dress Shop.. 450 Sutter Medical Building in the background. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 1-line Streetcar #211 with zip stripe livery, Sutter at Stockton.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Geary, Del Monte Groceteria, Hotels Paul, Geary, York, Alcazar Building, and El Cortez. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) B-line Car # 200, Geary at Leavenworth
Tenderloin
View northeast over intersection of California and Kearny to buildings on north side of California St. Club 500, Hotel Squire, States Hotel, San Francisco Bank, Financial Center Building (1927) Kohl Building. Approaching California Street Cable RR Cable Car. Rainy day.
Financial District
View west on Clay from Grant, Sign for 'Carl J. Fung & Co. Market Street Railway (MSRy) Sacramento Street Cable Car #19. Cable Car #19 is the oldest operating cable car (Built 1883) and returned to service in 2019. Soo Yuen Benevolent Association Building at right.
Chinatown
View east on California, Art Guild Building at left and Bay Bridge in the distance. California Street Cable RR Cable Car #4.
Nob Hill
View northeast across California between Stockton and Grant. At left, Sabin Place and 720 California St. building before 2 story addition. Sing Chong Co., Old St. Mary's cathedral at center, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Kohl Building, Southern Pacific Building, Bay Bridge in the distance, Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building, Sing Fat Co. California Street Cable Railroad cable car descending hill.
Chinatown