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4th Ave & Irving
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4th Ave & Irving

MUNI (Municipal Railway) N-Judah streetcar in collision with truck and tar boiler trailer.

Sunset Inner
Mission near Richland
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Mission near Richland

Elevated view northeast to streetcar #1230, 40 Interurban San Mateo line

Bernal Heights
Onondaga & Mission
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Onondaga & Mission

View west across Mission to K-Ingleside Terminal, Three Aces Club

Cayuga
2nd  & Cornwall
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2nd & Cornwall

View south east across 2nd Ave. to #62 Birney Sacramento Northern car on excursion near C-Line terminus. Operator standing on roof. Buildings behind streetcar demolished, two on left extant 2019.

Richmond Inner
Haight & Stanyan
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Haight & Stanyan

View west on Haight between Shrader and Stanyan, at Haight Street Car House, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 17-line streetcar #173. Golden Gate Park in background.

Haight Ashbury
19th & Illinois
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19th & Illinois

Passengers boarding Muni 16-Line Car #820 with zip stripe livery, toward the end of service on the temporary War-time 16 line. Poster for 'State of the Union' at the Curran (opened Sept. 1946) on side.

Dogpatch
Mission & 2nd
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Mission & 2nd

View west toward New Montgomery. Rialto Building, Aronson Building in distance. Bailey Paint Co. at right.

Financial District
4th & Stillman
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4th & Stillman

Derailment of Market Street Railway (MSRy) 20-line streetcar #825

South of Market
Alemany & San Bruno Ave
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Alemany & San Bruno Ave

View southeast, (Alemany Interchange freeways will later cross background) to cars and approaching streetcar Market Street Railway H-Line streetcar with zip stripe livery.

Bernal Heights
Fulton near Parker
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Fulton near Parker

View northwest across Fulton to Charter Fan Trip car #1329 (car is posed running inbound on outbound track) passing St. Ignatius Church.

Lone Mountain
Bryant & Alameda
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Bryant & Alameda

Construction of Rainier Brewery

Mission
Market near 2nd
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Market near 2nd

Los Angeles Motorcycle Police on Parade. View east on Market near 2nd Street, Ferry Building, Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building in the distance. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 8-line streetcar #108 at right.

Financial District
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View south to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 near turntable, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes." On left Owl Drug in Flood Building.

Downtown / Union Square
Taylor near Bay
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Taylor near Bay

View northeast across Taylor toMuni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes."

North Beach
Sutter & Sansome
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Sutter & Sansome

View west across Sansome to Municipal Railway (Muni) 2-Clement line demonstration bus, in early 1950s. Anglo and London Paris National Bank, Crocker Anglo Bank, Crocker Bank at right (Albert Pissis, architect)

Financial District