wnp27.6076
San Jose near Ocean
14-Line Streetcar #1583 lost control of brakes at San Jose and Shakespeare and crashed at San Jose and Ocean. [Runaway streetcar comes to stop at bottom of San Francisco Hill only after smashing through steel street post, snapping off wooden telephone pole, knifing front porch from a home and smashing two automobiles. Fast-thinking motorman, John H. Paterson, San Francisco, as he discovered the broken brake mechanism, shouted to a passing motorist to race ahead and clear the street, and to the car's only other occupant, a conductorette, to lie down on the floor. She was uninjured, he, only slightly.
1946
Mission Terrace
wnp15.1294
Market near 5th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west down center of Market, City Hall ruins in background right; workmen repairing streetcar tracks and roadway, woman laughing. Far background, Grant Building, Twin Peaks, Admission Day Monument [Scene on Market St. Western Photographic Co. 45]
1906
Downtown / Union Square
