Workers

Contains 570 photos

Geneva Car Barn
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Geneva Car Barn

San Jose Avenue and Geneva, Work Car #0131 and Muni PCC streetcar #1121 with wings livery.

Cayuga
Hyde near Beach
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Hyde near Beach

View east to cable car turntable. Cable Car #522 being turned. Haslett warehouse and SF Muni bus with wings livery in background.

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
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Unknown Location

1906 Earthquake and Fire. Men moving a safe among ruins.

Castro & 26th
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Castro & 26th

Elevated view northeast to conductor turning Market Street Railway Co. (MSRy) Castro Street Cable Car #7 on turntable. H. Schmidt Grocery Store in background.

Noe Valley
Mission near 5th
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Mission near 5th

View east on Mission between 4th and 5th Street. Track Removal operation (Mission street lines converted from streetcars in 1949). Webber's Stationers 871 Mission; Hotel Del Mar at left, Mohr Building (built 1924) at right. All buildings in the is view demolished, except for the Pacific Telephone Building in the background.

South of Market
Castro & 26th
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Castro & 26th

View northeast across intersection to Market St. Railway Co. (MSRy) Castro Street Cable Car #5 at Castro & 26th turntable.

Noe Valley
Church & 15th
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Church & 15th

View northeast on Church toward 15th Street, Municipal Railway (Muni) Overhead Line Car #0304 (still bearing Market Street Railway (MSRy) shield), Church St northbound on southbound track just south of 15th St - Rebuilding section from 4 to 2 tracks

Mission Dolores
Geneva Carbarn
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Geneva Carbarn

Three men posing by Muni wrecking car #0507, Wrecking Car Crew

Cayuga
Geary near Masonic
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Geary near Masonic

View northwest across Geary toward Masonic. Municipal Railway (Muni) Streetcar #154 with wings livery at beginning of special run to the scrap yard, eastbound on Geary near Masonic. Bekins building in background.

Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Lincoln Park
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Lincoln Park

Laborers with shovels and wheelbarrows excavating for water tank. [D.823 5/27/24]

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
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Unknown Location

Laborers installing sections of pipe into trench. Man with welding tanks at right. [D.733 11/7/23]

Coleridge near Virginia
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Coleridge near Virginia

Construction on the back side of the United Railroads 29th Street car house. (demolished) The view looks north toward a residence on the west side of Coleridge (also demolished) United Railroads [U03988]

Bernal Heights
Market & Mason
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Market & Mason

View northwest across Market to Admission Day Monument (Native Sons Monument) in original location at Market, Mason and Turk Streets. Created by California sculptor Douglas Tilden and unveiled on September 5, 1897, it celebrates California's admission to the Union in 1850. In 1948 it was moved to Golden Gate Park, and in 1977 moved to its present location at Montgomery and Market. Five-story building at right is The Metropole, a lodging house built around 1883. Three street sweepers.

Downtown / Union Square
Jackson & Buchanan
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Jackson & Buchanan

View east on Jackson from Buchanan to Muni Washington-Jackson cable car #524 with Red Cross signs on front and top, Red Cross flag. Tracks under construction.

Pacific Heights
Embarcadero near Vallejo
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Embarcadero near Vallejo

View west to wharves, Telegraph Hill at right. Fishing nets spread across wharf, men attending to them. A 23 day strike of wholesale fish butchers and teamsters took place in September and October of 1936. Fishing Boat Balboa at left. In distance left, Kockos Bros. Wholesale Grocers 48 Broadway, Albers Bros. Milling Co. 743 Davis. [36 Fish Strike]. Pier 9. [1936 Fish Strike at Fisherman's Wharf]