Contains 8537 photos
View north of the aftermath of a L-line Streetcar and truck accident, on Taraval Street near 48th Avenue. Flats at 3740-3742 and 3734-3736 Taraval, built 1948, are in background. Workers and what appears to be a Muni Inspector are surveying the damage.
Sunset Outer
Cliff Line waiting room under construction United Railroads [Reconstruction Ferries & Cliff Line] Served as passenger waiting room, curio shop and food concession until demolished in 1940. The railroad right-of-way is now part of a walking path. (The Cliff Line began as the Ferries & Cliff House steam railroad in 1888. It was converted to streetcar operations in 1905.)
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Market Street Railway (MSry) Car House, west side of Mission between 29th Street and Virginia [dpw7212]
Bernal Heights
Elevated view east over construction of Ferry Building Loop. Scaffolding on Ferry Building tower. United Railroads [U01007] [Market & East Sts 10-22-06]
Financial District
Elevated view east toward Ferry Building Loop. Temporary Streetcar tracks and Ferry Tower being repaired from scaffolding (with Pacific Construction Co., 17 Spear St. sign). Ferry Drug Co. Southern Pacific Railroad office at far right. United Railroads [U01009] [Market & East Sts. looking east 10-25-06]
Financial District
Overhead line "Tower Truck." "Devisadero" on sign
Lower Haight
View south on 2nd St. to east side of street, F-line Stockton Streetcar #14 with wings livery, Schilling Co. Building, The Schmidt Lithography Co. clock tower at Second and Bryant streets .
South of Market
22-line Fillmore struck another streetcar. A crowd of people nearby.
11th Street at Minna, streetcar derailment. Thompson Tire Co. 120 11th St., H Line Potrero
South of Market
View west to Washington and Jackson Line #522 cable car coming down Washington near Octavia. Spreckels Mansion in the background.
Pacific Heights
Dump car doing rail maintenance
Noe Valley
Elevated view east from center of Market toward 1st Street to cars parked in the middle of the street during Municipal Railway (Muni) Strike. Parking regulations were suspended to allow cars to park on unused streetcar tracks. The strike lasted from Sunday February 17 through Saturday February 23, 1952. From left Donahue Mechanics Monument, Union Carbide in Postal Telegraph Building, Tilden Sales Building , Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building, Ferry Building, PG&E Building,
Financial District
Elevated view east from north side of Market to sidewalk cave-in in front of Chancery Building. Patrick & Co. Office supplies, Haas Candy. Muni J-Line #45.
Financial District
Jones Street Cable Car Shuttle #60 (now in Japan)
Tenderloin
last year of service for the 11-Hoffman line
Dolores Heights