Geary & Polk
View northwest across intersection to C-line streetcar #609 with wings livery on Geary. Prompt Radio & Television Co. in background left. [0209-C-A EB ON GEARY AT POLK 28 APR 1949 car renumbered 609]
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Geary near Van Ness
View northeast across Geary near Van Ness, Muni B-Line #141 with wings livery and red cross flag. Prompt Radio & Television Company in background. Buildings on left demolished 2015.
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View South on Leavenworth
Empire Hotel in the distance, two-way traffic on Leavenworth
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Jones & Pine
Looking north on Jones St. from Pine.
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Van Ness & Geary
View northeast across intersection to two D-Line streetcars, one with wings livery, Concordia Club at center left. Corner building, 1100 Van Ness Ave., originally built 1912-13 as a car showroom for Duryea and Maxwell autos, demolished 2015.
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Bush & Jones
View north to Jones Street Cable Car climbing Nob Hill. St. Dominic Apartments, 980 Bush Street, at right.
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Jones & Post
O'Farrell Jones Hyde Cable Car #51
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Jones & Post
O'Farrell Jones Hyde Cable Car #51 with man crossing
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Sutter near Leavenworth
View west. Cross Roads liquor and grocery on corner. Lo-Price Food Mart across street in apartment building (Regina Towers in 2018). Hotel Empire in distance (Vertigo Hotel in 2018).
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Jones & Pine
View north on Jones at Pine to California St. Cable Railroad Co. O'Farrell and Jones cable car #38 turning onto Jones. Grace Cathedral, Rear of Grace Cathedral, Chambord Apartments, and Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, Architect Albert Larsen) in the background left. Store on right corner has since been demolished. (AS)
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Geary near Van Ness
View northeast past Muni B-Line #144 with wings livery and Red Cross flags. Prompt Radio & Television Company. Buildings in background demolished 2015.
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Sutter near Leavenworth
940 Sutter Street, Hotel Empire was originally named Hotel Glen Royal when built in 1925. Used in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in a scene where Scottie watches from across the street as Madeline peeks out the window of Room 401. Now called the Hotel Vertigo. Within Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel Historic District on the National Register.
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Mason & Bush
700 Mason Street at Bush Street. This multi-unit Medieval Revival building was built in 1911. Originally the private Holluschickie Club, it was converted to apartments about 1920. Architect was C. A. Meussdorffer. Storefronts along the Bush Street side include the Cottage Grocery and Fong On Laundry.
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Van Ness & Bush
View south on Van Ness to collision between two autos. People in the street. 11:30 AM. San Francisco Finance Co at left. Plymouth and Nash dealerships at right.
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Jones & Post
Cable car heading downhill on Hyde Street at O'Farrell. [O'Farrell Jones & Hyde Line, Jones & Post, southbound, last day 5/15/54]
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View from Nob Hill
View south from a rooftop on Leavenworth near Post. Luard Apartments (526 Leavenworth, now the Jeanette Apartments) at left. Empire Hotel Leavenworth and McAllister at center. ( now part of Hastings Law School)
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Pine near Polk
View east with radio tower and Cathedral Tower apartments in distance. Joy Food Mart grocery, Royal Liquors, Plaza Club bar, Elbow Room bar, Morris & Politi Insurance, billboard encouraging polio vaccinations. Dan's Diner sign on right (site of The Grubstake).
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Geary & Leavenworth
View east to Westbound Muni #195, Del Monte Grocery, Harold's Re-Bound Club, Alcazar Theatre, Hotel Paul, Hotel Geary, Hotel York, El Cortez Hotel, Bank of America, Velma's, Clift Hotel.
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Van Ness & Geary
View southwest across intersection toward Saint Mary's Cathedral (burned September 1962), Van Ness Oldsmobile used car lot and Tommy's Joynt in 4 story building. Municipal Railway (Muni) B-line #87 with wings livery entering intersection. (The B and C cars ended service on December 29, 1956).
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Sutter & Polk
View east on Sutter toward Polk. Fosters Cafeteria, Mission Biscuit, Otis Hotel, Glenarm Apartments
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