Contains 2840 photos
View north towards Stockton Street Tunnel. Municipal Railway F-line streetcar passing Dalma Garage. Hotel Navarre at left, in distance Hotel Victoria, built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel). Buildings at right demolished for Sutter-Stockton garage.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view east across Square from St. Francis Hotel. Western Pacific, Fred Benioff, Kaiser Frazer, TWA
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view east on Market from 4th, Shriners Parade (Aloha Temple Patrol, Honolulu); State Theatre, Humboldt Bank Building, Portola Theatre. Call and Examiner Buildings in distance left. Street lamps decorated, banners strung across street. [California SF as State CAL-44 7-46]
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square looking northwest; parking entrance; Palace Hotel; St. Francis Hotel; Dewey Monument
Downtown / Union Square
View west to Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car #504 being turned by operators. [Powell St. Cable Car on its Turn-table at Powell and Market Sts. San Francisco] [Zan 2497]
Downtown / Union Square
Market St near Powell. View East. Emporium 50th Anniversary
Downtown / Union Square
Cable Car #507 passing Union Square. Fitzhugh Building and Hotel Plaza in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest across Powell to Municipal Railway (Muni) Powell & Mason Cable Car #504. St. Francis hotel at left. United Airlines. Car is still painted with pre-merger Market Street Railway (MSRy) shield.
Downtown / Union Square
View southwest across Market to Hale Bros. in Lincoln Building, crowded 7-line streetcar #162 with men seated on Eclipse fender. [0162-07-01 WB on Market at Fifth 5 August 1946]
Downtown / Union Square
Two men stand on the base of the Dewey Monument, on its west side.
Downtown / Union Square
View south on 3rd from across Market. Hearst Examiner Building at left. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) Final days of Muni's Wartime 16-line.
Downtown / Union Square
View north on Powell toward Powell and Eddy Cable Car Turntable. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) Washington Jackson Line Cable Car #527 on Powell St. Flood Building and Owl Drug, Hotel Golden State in background. Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
View southwest on Market from Mason. St. Francis Theatre and Wilson Building. Street and streetcar decorated for Shrine Convention. Rainy day. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line Market St. Between Taylor & Mason (unusual July rain)
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Market from Mason. Esquire (showing Abbot & Costello 'The Time of Their Lives') Pix Theatres at left, Flood Building. Emporium (showing Abbot & Costello 'The Time of Their Lives'), 50th anniversary billboard. Hale Bros., J.C. Penney Decoration for unknown event. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 5-line outbound Market St. at Mason.
Downtown / Union Square
View west across Market up Geary. Lotta's Fountain at right center. From left, Flood Building, Phelan Building, Bankers Investment Building, Magee Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building with Bank of America branch, Flannery Building (with Painless Parker Dentist branch opened September, 1946, The Stag Bar and Acme Beer signs). Whittell Building, Granville's Jewelers at right. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 7-line Streetcar #161 at center, B and C-Line streetcars at right. Dr. Willetts Chiropractor, W & H Cigars & Liquors, Foster's Cafeteria.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Market, Pix Theater, Esquire Theater, Humboldt Bank Building, Emporium Building, Hale Bros. and J.C. Penny Company. Rainy day, many people on the sidewalk. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 7-line - Streetcar #150, Market at Mason. Street decorated for Shrine convention. Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
Looking west on Sutter from Grant. Park Hotel, Piccadilly Inn, Hotel Francis, Goodman's, Baldwin Piano, Maxine Dress Shop.. 450 Sutter Medical Building in the background. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 1-line Streetcar #211 with zip stripe livery, Sutter at Stockton.
Downtown / Union Square
Looking north on Powell from Eddy, Pig and Whistle, Hotel Powell, Flood Building, and Owl Drugs. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) Cable Car #505, (Superior Duplicate of wnp27.50034)
Downtown / Union Square
View west to Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car #504 being turned by operators. [Powell St. Cable Car on its Turn-table at Powell and Market Sts. San Francisco] [Zan 2497]
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Geary toward Market, site of traffic jam caused by streetcar collision. [. . . couldn't get a streetcar so walked up to see what was holding them up. On Market Street downtown two streetcars had collided - result a tie up for hours. Picture at scene of streetcar collision.]
Downtown / Union Square