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Contains 240 photos

Haight & Divisadero
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Haight & Divisadero

Crane Car and Workers on Haight Street Removing Cable Car Tracks for Replacement with Electric Streetcar [Haight east from Devisadero] - United Railroads [U01043]

Buena Vista
Fulton & La Playa
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Fulton & La Playa

View West on Fulton [Fulton St. & 49th Ave. Looking West. A.R. (Accident report) 49] - United Railroads [U03813]

Richmond Outer
Haight near Fillmore
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Haight near Fillmore

View East on Haight from Fillmore, Gallagher Bros Shoe Repair at right. [Haight St. east from Fillmore.] - United Railroads [U01077]

Lower Haight
Ferry Building Loop
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Ferry Building Loop

Group of dignitaries posed in front of United Railroads special sightseeing streetcar, the 'San Francisco'. It was the first car to run on Market Street after the 1906 earthquake. Mayor Eugene Schmitz, URR's Patrick Calhoun, Julius Kahn, Abe Ruef, and others.

Financial District
Clay & Kearny
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Clay & Kearny

Elevated view northeast to track work. Cable car line with its innards exposed. Cable car track crossing a street car track. Near site of the first cable car turntable. McDonough Bros. Bail Bonds on northeast corner. - United Railroads [U00312]

Chinatown
6th & Market
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6th & Market

New track crossing installation. Looking NW toward the intersection of Taylor and Golden Gate. Crossing for the 6th and Sansome Line. Mitchell's is now the site of the Golden Gate Theatre. - United Railroads [U00224]

South of Market
Sutter & Kearny
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Sutter & Kearny

View west on Sutter from center of intersection of track work. In the distance are two Sutter Street cable cars. - United Railroads [U00226]

Downtown / Union Square
Divisadero & Hayes
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Divisadero & Hayes

Looking north from center of Divisadero to work crew installing tracks in intersection. To the right is The Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home. [Devisadero & Hayes Sts.]- United Railroads [U00278]

Alamo Square
Polk & Sacramento
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Polk & Sacramento

Cable Car Crossing. Wide gauge tracks on Polk Street (5-ft) while the tracks on Sacramento were narrow gauge (3-ft). Looking north. - United Railroads [U00296]

Polk Gulch
3rd & Bryant
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3rd & Bryant

Elevated view west of track installation at intersection. Sign for Laventhal Bros. Silkwood Whiskey on J.J. Sweeney liquor store, - United Railroads [U00044]

South Beach
U.S. Life Saving Station
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U.S. Life Saving Station

View of rear of U.S. Life Saving Station in Golden Gate Park. Scene of accident in which woman hit her head on pole while looking out streetcar. [Henney Case] - United Railroads [U00046]

Golden Gate Park
Page & Pierce
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Page & Pierce

View West on Page Street. Many of these buildings extant 2019.- United Railroads [U00757]

Lower Haight
Clement near 8th Ave
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Clement near 8th Ave

View east on Clement from 8th Avenue. Richmond Congregational Church at right at the southwest corner of 7th Avenue. Congress Hall Whiskey advertisement on 538 Clement on the the left, the grocery store of Pietro (Paul) Del Piano. Mr. Piano got out of the grocery business a few years later, and opened three successive saloons in the inner-Richmond, up until Prohibition closed him down. (JF) The white 3-story building at left still stands at 524 Clement. - United Railroads [U00226A]

Richmond Inner
Washington & Mason
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Washington & Mason

View north across Mason to Cable Car & Powerhouse at Washington and Mason Streets. Ferries & Cliff House Railway Co. Men and boys under corner awning. [Washington & Mason Car & Powerhouse. Broken Corner Missing] - United Railroads [U00138]

Nob Hill
Sutter & Broderick
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Sutter & Broderick

View west on Sutter from Broderick. Buildings at right (north side) mostly still stand. The block on the left demolished for public housing. Sutter Street cable tracks in street, Laurel Hill Cemetery in distance. Liquor store on corner at left. [Whithing Case] - United Railroads [U00170]

Lower Pacific Heights