Powell & Market
View east across Powell to Muni Washington & Jackson cable car #527on turntable. Owl Drug signage on Flood Building has been removed. Woolworths opened in that space in October, 1952.
Downtown / Union SquareWorkers
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Bay & Taylor
[MSRy Cable Car #509] View east across Taylor to MSRy Cable Car #509. Female conductor.
North Beach
East Bay Terminal
View east on entry ramp. Photo shows off the car in the middle, brand new #1001.
South of Market
Twin Peaks Reservoir
Twin Peaks Reservoir entrance to tunnels [dpwbook1 dpw130]
Clarendon Heights
17th near Ord
View east down 17th to pipe laying, Potrero Hill in distance, 106 Ord on right. [dpwbook1 dpw147]
Corona Heights
Dolores near Liberty
View north along sewer trench in center of street to Dolores Park, Mission High School, the future Mint Hill (and later-excavated portions south, across Market Street) in background. 751-753 Dolores, on right at Liberty corner, built 1908, extant 2024. At upper left, 730 Dolores under construction in row of houses also extant 2024.. [Dolores & 27th (Sic) laying pipe dpwbook1 dpw150]
Dolores Heights
Market near Duboce
View South across Market between Duboce (13th Street) and Guerrero. Workers lowering pipe into trench. [13th & Market] [dpwbook1 dpw164]
Mint Hill
Market near Duboce
View North on Market, between Duboce (13th Street) and Guerrero. Workers lowering pipe into trench. 3-story edwardian apartment building still stands at 1878 Market. Behind the scaffold is Cape Horn Saloon at Guerrero. [13th & Market] [dpwbook1 dpw165]
Mint Hill
Mission Viaduct
View west from Mission Viaduct construction site towards Cayuga and Rousseau. Two men make rebar assemblies. Glen Park in distance. [dpwbook1 dpw211]
Mission Terrace
Mission Viaduct
Mission Viaduct pouring concrete [dpwbook1 dpw213]
Mission Terrace
2nd & Townsend
Excavation and shoring of adjoining property for pumping station, 2nd & Townsend.
South Beach
Rhode Island Near 15th
View south on De Haro near 15th. Potrero Hill in background. The 204 foot Incinerator, built 1897, at left was demolished in 1933. pile driver, sewer work, [dpwbook2 dpw710] DUPLICATE of wnp36.000167
Showplace Square
Rhode Island near 16th
View south on Rhode Island to sewer drop, pile driver, Fischbeck Soap Co 17th & Rhode Island background left, Potrero Hill [dpwbook2 dpw713]
Showplace Square
5th near Natoma
View north to 5th St. sewer repair bet. Howard & Mission [dpwbook2 dpw746] U.S. Mint at left, top of Flood Building at right
South of Market
Winnipeg Sewer
Sewer construction possibly along Cayuga Avenue (then Winnipeg Avenue, later subsumed by Alemany Boulevard) near Farragut (unsure of this location)[Winnipeg Ave. sewer] [dpwbook2 dpw706]
Outer Mission