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O'Farrell & Stockton

View east on O'Farrell toward intersection with Market and Grant. Call Building in background. Oberon Music Hall in Shiels Building (38 O'Farrell, offices and lodge halls) left of center. In the Kohler & Chase building (with Decker Bros. Piano sign) basement is site of the Belvedere Music Hall (began operations about July, 1904). The three-story building just after it is the Fire Station for Truck No. 1. Phelan Building at right. (PF) Bancroft History Building across Market St. in distance with Ayres' Business College sign. Sign on building across Market for Sarah Cowell LeMoyne in 'The First Duchess Marlborough' at the Columbia Theatre, which played there in November, 1901. (see also wnp27.7594 taken minutes apart)

1901 Downtown / Union Square

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California near Locust

Round house of the Ferries & Cliff House Railroad (steam train). North side of California between Locust and Laurel. United Railroads [U00114] (negative broken - 4 pieces)

1905 Presidio Heights

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South San Francisco

View south on the interurban San Mateo line near Spruce Avenue, South San Francisco. 40-line streetcar #1243 - United Railroads [U00063] (broken, shattered and taped)

1903 Outside SF

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3rd & 23rd

United Railroads streetcar #1710 (marked for 15-line) outside URR's Kentucky Street Car House. Accident Report 3205 (broken and taped)

1918 Dogpatch

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San Bruno Ave & Felton

View north on San Bruno Avenue near Felton, Potrero Hill in the background. United Railroads 25-line streetcar #961 (former Omnibus Railway car) , with employee demonstrating accident. Accident report 4949. United Railroads [U03237] (Broken - 2 pieces)

1911 Portola

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Steiner & Turk

Rear Entrance to the United Railroads Turk and Fillmore car barn. Fillmore counterbalance car #648 (the second #648) pictured after an accident. Accident Report 6100-19 - United Railroads [U06793] (Broken - 2 pieces)

1919 Western Addition

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Geneva & San Jose

United Railroads Cemetery 14-line streetcar #1241 at the Geneva car house [U0XXXX] (broken - 2 pieces and cracked)

1918 Cayuga

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32nd Ave & Clement

United Railroads 1-line streetcar #213 behind the Sutro car barn. [U06968] (broken - piece missing)

1920 Richmond Outer

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Haight & Masonic

View west on Haight Street at Masonic. United Railroads 7-line streetcars #123 and #115 demonstrating the space between passing cars. [U04899] (Broken - cracked and taped)

1915 Haight Ashbury

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Broadway near Drumm

View west on Broadway from Drumm, showing Southern Pacific rail yard. Accident report 5470 - Gorman Case. A United Railroads streetcar #689 in an accident with Pacific Fruit Express freight car. Hotel Evans in the background. [U03288]

1911 Northern Waterfront

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24th & Utah

View east on 24th Street between Utah and San Bruno Avenue, United Railroads car house at left, Potrero Hill in the background. United Railroads streetcar #752 Accident Report 4727-18. The car house was later converted to bus storage, then demolished and replaced with the General Hospital parking garage in the 1990s. [U06196]

1918 Potrero Hill

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24th & Utah

United Railroads, 19-line streetcar # 773 outside the 24th & Utah car house. This series of cars (771-118) had interesting histories: from 1908 through 1914 they were uses as flatcars carrying parade floats for Portola festivals. In 1918 they were built with new bodies with only a single bulkhead (partition) thus impossible to keep warm. Officially always called 'Portola' Cars due to their flat car years, but unofficially, they were the Pneumonia Specials (EE) [U07183]

1920 Potrero Hill

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Sansome & Chestnut

View southeast across Sansome near Chestnut, Telegraph Hill, Merchants Ice and Cold Storage Co. in the background. United Railroads 34-line streetcar #726, accident report #3712 [U06578]

1919 Northern Waterfront

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Sansome & Chestnut

View northerly toward the Embarcadero, United Railroads 34-line car #730 (ex SSF RR and Power Company class car) [U06760]

1919 Northern Waterfront

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24th & Utah

United Railroads streetcar #726 at the 24th and Utah car house. Accident Report 4210. The car house was later converted to bus storage, then demolished and replaced with the General Hospital parking garage in the 1990s. [U06611]

1919 Potrero Hill