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Market Street Cable Railway's lines. Click on each thumbnail to see a
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Market Street Cable Railway Hayes Street car 15, photographed by
Isaiah West Taber.
Smaller version.
January (Winter), 2001 Picture of the Quarter.
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McAllister Street car 274 on the turntable at 12th Avenue and Fulton Street, near the
Chutes amusement park. This view highlights the great length of the car.
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Another McAllister Street car at the Chutes amusement park on Fulton
Street.
(Source: San Francisco
Public Library, San Francisco Historical Photograph
Collection, AAC-7936).
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A postcard view of the Chutes amusement park on Fulton Street, showing
the Shoot the Chutes ride. The Chutes operated at various locations including
Haight between Cole, Schraeder, and Waller (02-Nov-1895 to 16-Mar-1902), Fulton between
Tenth and Eleventh Avenues (01-May-1902 until the winter of 1908-1909), the block bounded by
Fillmore, Webster, Turk, and Eddy (14-Jul-1909 until it burned down 29-May-1911).
The late lamented Playland-at-the-Beach at Ocean Beach, was originally called
Chutes-at-the-Beach, but was not related to the original Chutes. It had a Shoot the Chutes ride from the time it opened in 1922
until January, 1950. Thanks to historian John Freeman for the story of the Chutes.
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A view by IW Taber, looking down Market from near Third Street, towards the ferry. The
white structure on the right is the Hearst Building, headquarters of The Examiner.
A Geary Street cable train is visible behind Lotta's Fountain on the left.
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A detail from a stereo view of a busy Market Street scene, near Third Street.
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A rainy day at Hayes and Van Ness in 1890.
(Source: San Francisco
Public Library, San Francisco Historical Photograph
Collection, AAB-3966). September, 2003 Picture of the Month.
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A Valencia Street cable car at 28th Street and Valencia on
29-May-1904.
(Source: San Francisco Municipal Railway United Railroads Collection Photo
#175). November, 2005 Picture of the Month.
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Railway Post Office car "A" at Hayes and Stanyan. Note the mail slot at the
right rear corner. White was the official color for street running RPOs.
(Source: San Francisco
Public Library, San Francisco Historical Photograph
Collection, AAB-8771).
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Val Lupiz found this postcard showing a
Market Street Railway cable Railway Post Office car at the Ferry Building.
The postmark on back reads Harmony, Maine 1910. A quote from Val:
"I've often wondered what would happen if you had a runaway with one of these
cars and had to drop a slot blade -- all those carefully sorted letters and cards,
tossed all over the floor in one big pile...
'Gaahhhh!!!! You idiot!! Now I've gotta start all over!!!' LOL."
Val Lupiz Collection. All rights reserved.
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Two Market Street cable cars at the turntable in front of the old Ferry Builing,
before 1897. Horse cars wait at the left. A hotel omnibus and a carriage are on
the right.
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After the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, the Ferry turntable was replaced by a loop
for United Railroads electric cars. The loop eventually grew to three tracks
after Muni extended its lines down Market.
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The final configuration of the Ferry Loop. All Muni and MSR lines that
ran on Market Street looped on its three tracks. The north terminal, just
visible under the iron bridge at the left of the Ferry Building, served
Muni's E Union dinkies and the MSR's 15 line. The south terminal served
MSR's Mission Street and other South of Market lines. The
Sacramento/Clay
cable car line shared tracks with the loop on the left.
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United Railroads of SF electric car 1380 shows the influence of the
California style. Car 1380 was built by the Saint Louis
Car Company in 1905 part of a group of 125 cars. In 1911 or 1912 the car was enclosed
and remodeled for Pay as You Enter operation. Sister car 1310 burned on 18-Apr-1906.
The surviving cars in the group were scrapped between 1927 and 1935.
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A brochure produced in the late 1930's or early 1940's by a later incarnation of
the Market Street Railway, showing a Brill trolley coach, a gasoline bus,
and electric streetcar 257. The cover ignores their surviving cable car
lines. The gasoline bus may be rear of a Twin Coach 25-28 bus. Thanks
to Val Golding for the suggestion.
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Tokens issued by a later incarnation of the Market Street Railway (no thumbnail).
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