O'Farrell & Grant Ave
Cable Car #53, American Trust Company
Downtown / Union SquareDowntown / Union Square
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Market & Powell
View northwest across Market to 8-line #206 with 'Join Now-The New Regular Army' recruiting ad on side. Flood Building, Frank Werner Shoes. Warfield, Esquire & Telenews Theatres, Garfield Building, Douglas Building with Gray's Suits. Flags strung over street. Buildings at left demolished for Hallidie Plaza.
South of Market
Stockton & Post
F-Line streetcar #35 crossing Post St.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Mason
View east down Market to SFMR #5 N-Line during 4 track days - people with umbrellas in the rain, Humboldt Bank Building, Emporium, Hale's, Penney's, Pix and Esquire theaters, Flood Building. Annual Shriner Convention banners strung overhead. Unusual rain in July.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
View south to Washington and Jackson Line, Municipal Railway (Muni) Cable Car #527 on turntable. Hales, Emporium in background.
Downtown
Market & Kearny
View southeast across Kearny towards Palace Hotel at left. Two streetcars: Muni (Municipal Railway) N-line car #86 and Muni K-line car #57. Banner on closest streetcar 'Join the Navy.' Birdcage traffic signal. Eureka Federal Savings & Loan in Monadnock Building at right. Banners and flags strung across Market Banners for Lions International convention parade on July 28, 1947.
Downtown / Union Square
O'Farrell, Grant & Market
View east to O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde Cable Car, American Trust Bank, Union Trust Bank, Central Tower (former Call Building), Seven Eleven Restaurant, Morris Plan in Kamm Building before facade makeover, Progressive Optical, Fun Center and Silver Palace (later Hub)Theatre at right in Bancroft Building.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & O'Farrell
View north on Powell toward Union Square, Lefty's Bar, Manx Hotel, Luppino's Restaurant, Crane Hotel, St. Francis Hotel, Quinby's Chocolates, Dance Art Co. Four cable cars #503, #525, #501 and 1 other) with Red Cross flags headed south to terminus.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
Elevated view northeast from across Market, looking down at Muni (Municipal Railway) 6-Line streetcar #136 derailed in front of Flood Building. Large crowd watching as wrecker trucks approach from left and right. Owl Drug Store, Morgan Jewelry Co, Florsheim Shoes. Decorations on streetlamps for Lions International convention parade on July 28, 1947.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
View south to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 near turntable, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes." On left Owl Drug in Flood Building.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
View west to Cable Car # 511 on the turntable, a forlorn-looking man with a briefcase at center. Bank of America headquarters (now One Powell St.), Hotel Powell in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Stockton
View southeast from Union Square showing eastbound B-line car. City of Paris department store. I. Magnin department store (converted from Butler Building) under construction.
Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Kearny
View east on Sutter from Kearny. Municipal Railway (Muni) 2-line streetcar #264 taking on outbound passengers. Hotel Sutter and Pompei Grill at right, Pauson & Co. clothier at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
View southeast across Market from Kearny. Palace Hotel and Monadnock Building with Eureka Federal Savings & Loan, Air Agencies Ticket Office in background. Lotta's Fountain at left. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line Streetcar #97. Banners strung across street for Lions International convention parade on July 28, 1947. Birdcage traffic signal.
Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Market
View east across Kearny toward Lotta's Fountain. Chronicle Building at left with C.R. Willett chiropractor, Security finance and Hyman's Leasing signs, W & H Cigars and Liquors on corner. At right, Palace Hotel, Metropolis Bank Building, Fack's Bar and night club, Santa Fe building/West Coast Life Insurance, Balboa Building. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) B-line Streetcar #158. Birdcage traffic signals
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
View east on Market from Kearny. Chronicle Building and Lotta's Fountain at left. Palace Hotel, Metropolis Bank Building at right. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) L-line streetcar #152 outbound on Market at Kearny. Signs on buildings for Florsheim Shoes, Hymans Leasing, Peck-Judah. Birdcage traffic signal. Flags hung over Market for Lions International convention.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Powell
View northeast across Union Square to Hotel Plaza, Dewey Monument, Fred Benioff Furs, Howard Building, Whittell Building. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) B-line Geary Streetcar #105?
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Powell
View northeast across Union Square, Dewey Monument, Hotel Plaza, Fred Benioff Furs, Howard Building, Whittell Building. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) C-line Geary Streetcar #11.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & O'Farrell
View north on Powell to Lefty's, Crane Hotel, Union Square, Fitzhugh Building. To right, Dance Art Co., Quinby's Chocolates. Rainy day view. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) Cable Car #506 with American flag.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary at Powell
View southeast across intersection with Union Square off camera at left, Western Air Lines office at right, several buildings with scaffolding (Dohrmann's and I. Magnin's, which opened in 1948). Mutual Savings Bank Building and Palace Hotel in the distance on Market Street. Whittell Building at left. Birdcage traffic signal. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) C-line Streetcar #20, outbound. Old Crow Bourbon billboard.
Downtown / Union Square