Mission & 2nd
Looking east across Mission St to police and crew inspecting partially de-railed Muni (Municipal Railway) 11-Line streetcar #806 with zip stripe livery and red cross flag at center. Birdcage traffic signal.
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Market & Embarcadero
Elevated view southwest across ferry plaza (with landscaped center and birdcage traffic signal) from pedestrian overpass bridge to crowds on corners, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Lines Building. United Cigar Store, Mead's Coffee Shop, Co-Operative Dairy Lunch, Leighton Dairy Lunch. Alameda Cafe decoration on second building from left. Muni B-Line streetcar. Ray Benson Candy, Cigars.
Financial District
Washington & Mason
Washington-Mason Car House. Cable car barn and powerhouse.
Nob Hill
Sickles & Mission
View Northerly on Mission from Sickles & Acton. 14-Mission 14-line, Market Street Railway streetcar #1629, State Theatre (Now SF Christian Center) at Mission and Lawrence in the distance.
Outer Mission
Warfield Theatre
Elevated view northeast across Market to opening of Loew's Warfield Theater on Market Street, crowds of people. Hotel Federal, State Hotel, Dean Building, Mechanics Savings Bank Building.
South of Market
Steiner at Alta Plaza
Elevated view east across Steiner from Alta Plaza to Muni Washington-Jackson Sts. Line cable car #524. 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." Victorian in background since demolished.
Pacific Heights
Van Ness & Hayes
Streetcar Accident [Accid - Truck hits St Car]
Civic Center
Bay & Taylor
View north to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 on 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.
North Beach
Ferry Building
Municipal Railway (Muni) E-Union streetcar #351, at its terminal just north of the Ferry Building The E-line ran lighter streetcars, known as Dinkys, to make it over the Union Street hill. This image is pre-war as the pedestrian overcrossing is still in intact.
Financial District
Powell & Washington
Elevated view looking down at work crew and derailed cable car, which had flipped around on its grip.
Nob Hill
Van Ness & Geary
View northeast across intersection to two D-Line streetcars, one with wings livery, Concordia Club at center left. Corner building, 1100 Van Ness Ave., originally built 1912-13 as a car showroom for Duryea and Maxwell autos, demolished 2015.
Lower Nob Hill
La Playa near Balboa
Market Street Railway (MSRy) 7-line streetcar with conductor standing in front entry, on the Playland / Balboa loop terminus. View east across La Playa toward M&M Baths. The Surf at left with 'Closed Temporarily' signs in window. Ad for 'Stage Door Canteen' at the United Artists Theater on streetcar. It ran there from late June through late September, 1943.
Richmond Outer
Key System, Bay Bridge
Interior view of commuters aboard a Key System train on the Bay Bridge crossing the Bay Bridge.
SF Bay
Market near Valencia
Elevated view southeast to outbound Muni J-Church streetcar.
Lower Haight
Mariposa near Bryant
View west on Mariposa toward Bryant. New Muni 'Magic Carpet' J-Line streetcar #1001 being unloaded at San Francisco Municipal Railway Potrero Yard. Ostlund & Johnson furniture at left. [San Francisco - St. Cars- Muny (Sic)]
Mission