Washington near Octavia
View from Lafayette park of cable car #523 on Washington street passing Spreckels Mansion. [C523-60A-05 EB ON WASHINGTON AT OCTAVIA 1950s]
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View north over Pacific Heights showing Presidio, Marina District, Yacht Harbor, Palace of Fine Arts.
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View from Pacific Heights
View southwest toward the Alta Plaza Apartments (2500 Steiner) and Alta Plaza beyond, taken from 2400 Pacific.
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Scott near Clay
2151 Scott Street, single family home, built 1878. Italianate style, with particularly rich details on the entry porch.
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2725 Sacramento
This residential home is now the site of St. Thomas Anglican Church, built in 1986.
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Pine near Laguna
2003 Pine Street, built 1906. South side of Pine between Laguna and Buchanan Streets. Home altered, with asbestos siding, new window, and removal of trim. Residents talk on porch. The building has since been restored with wood siding.
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Vallejo near Franklin
1730 Vallejo Street. Apartment building, built 1923, with units over garages, bay windows.
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Broadway near Franklin
1716-1720 Broadway, two Art Deco style flats, built 1940, flanked by two larger apartment houses.
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Sacramento near Broderick
2922 Sacramento Street, at left, has been demolished and replaced by a slightly newer Victorian that was moved to the location during redevelopment prior to 1975. At right, 2920 Sacramento built in 1886, still exists in the backyard of a newer building.
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Clay near Pierce
2727 Clay Street. Built 1910, the building may have originally been a single family residence, but is now a multiunit building. A garage has been added since this image was taken. Architect was Maxwell Bugbee. Image is reversed.
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California near Divisadero
2820 California Street. View north across California to street level retail space with Bagdad Rug & Cleaning Co., apartment on second story. Rug company truck parked in front. Mobil Gas station with phone booth at right, later demolished.
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Sacramento near Scott
2826 Sacramento Street near Scott Street is a single family home built in 1889 by builder/contractor William F. Lewis for James M. Wright, a wholesale drug salesman for Langley & Michaels Co.
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Vallejo & Baker
2901 Vallejo Street at Baker. Single-family residence, built 1950. A steep, unpaved portion of Baker Street is at left, and even today is a dead end shortly past the house.
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California near Broderick
2913 California is a single-family residence that looks largely the same today, a modernization of what was probably a flat-front Italianate when built. Records indicate that it was built prior to 1900. it is flanked on both sides by large Victorians which date from 1891-92, so an assumption would be that this modest building preceded those by at least a few years.
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Clay near Lyon
3187 Clay. South side of Clay between Baker and Lyon. This small residence, built circa 1900, was heavily modified in the 1990s to become a two-story home over garage, with square bay windows instead of the angled bay shown here.
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California near Divisadero
2826-2830 California Street, on the north side of the block near Divisadero Street. Built circa 1900. In 1951, this building, with flats over a store front, hosted a hardware store owned by Chas. P. Boegershausen on the ground floor. Bagdad Rug & Cleaning Co. is to the right.
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Washington near Buchanan
View west on Washington between Buchanan and Laguna. Muni Washington & Jackson Cable Car #521 with ad for Omar Khayyam's at O'Farrell and Powell. Alta Plaza in background.
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Washington & Fillmore
Washington & Jackson line cable car #523
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Steiner & Jackson
Elevated view northeast to approaching Muni 3-Line (Jackson) Trolley Bus. Cable car tracks for Washington-Jackson line rounding the corner. Calvary Presbyterian Church in right distance.
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California near Van Ness
California Street cable car #18 inbound between Van Ness and Polk
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