Contains 422 photos
Hazy view north across Market Street toward Kearny. Chronicle / de Young Building with Top Hat bar, Security Finance Co., W & H Cigars and Liquors, Top Hat bar, Florsheim shoes, Greyhound, Peck-Judah tickets & tours, Ted's. Lotta's Fountain at center. Municipal Railway (Muni) B-Line Streetcar #86 (The B and C cars ended service on December 29, 1956). Birdcage traffic signals. Taken same time as wnp25.1318.
South of Market
View northwest across Market St from 3rd St. Municipal Railway (Muni) M-line Streetcar #154. Bankers Investment Building, Lundstrom Hats, Prices, Bank of America, Mutual Savings Bank Building with Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association branch, Flannery Building with The Stag bar and Dr. Alexander Dentist. Birdcage traffic signals.
South of Market
Elevated view east from the Rincon Annex Post Office. Roof of Audiffred Building at right. California State Agricultural Building, Treasure Island in background. Olsen's Cafe 98 Embarcadero.
Financial District
View north from center of Grant Ave. to Shangri-La Chinese Art Goods, Western Union, Hang Far Low noodles, The United Dept. Store, Republic Hotel, Tai Ping Cafe Chop Suey, Chinese Village liquors, Lai On Co. Chinese Fine Arts.
Chinatown
View east from center of Market St to Bankers Investment Building with Eagleson's, Lundstrom Hats, Bank of America, Mutual Savings Bank, Flannery Building with Painless Parker dentist, Chronicle Building, Crocker Building, Hobart Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop, Ferry Building, Examiner Building, Central Tower (former Call Building), Dr. E.F. Lazarus Optometrist, Seven Eleven Restaurant, Morris Plan in remodeled Kamm Building, Progressive Optical, Silver Palace Theatre in Bancroft Building showing 'Homicide'. Schwabacher-Frey. Decorative flags strung above street.
Downtown / Union Square
View North on Montgomery from Market, Crocker Bank building (1908) before upper stories demolished at left. Union Trust/Nevada Bank Bldg (1894-1966) at right
Financial District
View north on West Portal Ave. toward Twin Peaks Tunnel portal. Christmas decorations for Poinsettia Christmas Parade on trolley poles, West Portal School in distance. Kilpatrick's, Langendorf, Orowheat bakery, and Borden's trucks. Angelo's Pizza, Crown Pet Sales.
West Portal
Market Street from California looking east to Ferry Building, Weinstein Co., Club 98, Hotel Terminal, Southern Pacific Building. Ferry building sign reads 'Welcome to San Francisco'
Financial District
Derailed 9-line streetcar, looking north across Cortland, from 1021 Cortland
Bernal Heights
Looking west on Sutter, 450 Sutter at center, Davis Schonwasser building at far right
Downtown / Union Square
Damaged Hog Truck. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 35-line and Muni H-line streetcars in background.
Potrero Hill
Elevated view looking southeast across Mission St. from 3rd St. Rucker-Fuller Desk Company, St. James Hotel. Market St. Railway (MSRy) 26-line streetcar #916, 11-Line car behind. Williams Building at right. United Cigars store at left. Birdcage traffic signal. Downtown rail service on 26-Line ended April 16, 1938.
South of Market
Elevated view southwest corner to long lines of people in front of Eyre Investment Company / Sherman Clay Building (George Applegarth, architect, completed 1907). Building stands in 2021, with decorative marquees and windows removed, ground floor facade sheathed in brown stone. Hart, Schaffner & Marx clothing, Post Street Streetcar #712. Birdcage traffic signal. [44944]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view south to Market and 6th Streets on rainy day. At center is the David Hewes Building built 1908 and still stands today. (with modern cladding) Market Street Railway (MSRy) 9-line streetcar #17xx at left. Summerfield & Haines Clothiers, Owl Drugs, Walgreen Drugs. Duplicate of wnp5.51025, wnp27.2631.
Tenderloin
View north to removal of streetcar tracks, West Hotel, Penn Drugs, Peerless Theatre 148 3rd St. at left. Aronson Building, Central Tower (Call Building), Mutual Savings Bank Building, Hearst Examiner Building in distance on Market St.. Lee's Market, Hotel Argus, Williams Building on right.
South of Market