Contains 1472 photos
View south on Powell at Jackson, crowds of people looking at damaged cable Car after accident. 20 people were injured as Powell-Jackson cable car lost control and raced down Powell before tipping over at the curve at Jackson street.
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View southeast from Sacramento and Jones Streets. Mark Hopkins HOtel, Hotel Huntington, Grace Cathedral with single bell tower.
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Looking towards North Beach and Telegraph Hill from the Top of the Mark
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Looking east to Financial District and Bay Bridge
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View east from center of California below Hyde, 2 cable cars (California to Van Ness service started in May, 1954) passing each other just west of Hyde Street.Cal-Hyde Market, Eppler's Bakery, Conradi's Drugs. One is #5.
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View west to Golden Gate Bridge, Palace of Fine Arts, Presidio, Lafayette Square Park. Uncompleted Grace Cathedral at left. Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955. Chambord Apartments at Sacramento and Clay Streets, center.
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view East, Ferry Building and Bay Bridge
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View northeast Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill from top of Nob Hill. St. Francis of Assisi Church at center, Washington Square at left.
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Fairmont Hotel; Muni California Cable Car #523
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View east down California Street to Ferry Building, Bay Bridge. Southern Pacific Building with S-P sign atop, PG&E and Matson Lines Buildings. Home Insurance Company Building with Colonial tower, Financial Center Building, later Omni Hotel. Clunie Building with Bank of America sign on west wall. Original Federal Reserve Bank, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery).
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People boarding Powell-Mason cable car
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View towards North Beach and Telegraph Hill
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Looking northwest toward Golden Gate Bridge and Palace of Fine Arts (at left). Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928. 11-story building at 1190 Sacramento St. at lower right completed in 1958.
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View southeast across intersection to Standard Stations gas station and 5-story apartment building on present site of Masonic Temple (completed 1958). California Street cable car tracks. Election posters for Nov. 1955 election at left.
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View northwest from Mark Hopkins Hotel entry parking lot to Pacific-Union club (old Flood Mansion) #22 California cable car
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Men standing on platform of cable car #508
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Sunset view west to apartment towers, Palace of Fine Arts and Golden Gate Bridge. Clay-Jones Apartments with transmission tower atop (1930, architect Albert Larsen), Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones (1955), 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928).
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The 'three laughing children' sculpture, 'Mrs. James Rolph' inscribed on base. Pacific Union Club (former Flood Mansion) in background.
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Cable Cars at the crest of a hill on Powell street.
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Cable Cars at the crest of a hill on Powell street.
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