History Spotlight
End of the Line, and an Era
Happy 87th Birthday, N-Judah!
F-line Turns 20
Photo of the (Past) Moment: 7-line Detour
[caption id="attachment_7868" align="alignleft" width="770"] Streetcar Track Construction at Lincoln Way and 36th Avenue Looking West | December 1, 1931[/caption]
Great Photos in Chron’s “Our SF”
GM Conspiracy to Kill Streetcars? Not By Itself
[caption id="attachment_7605" align="aligncenter" width="700"] In this 1940 shot from the SFMTA Archives, you can see automobiles jousting with streetcars for space on Market Street. This car-car clash was a big reason streetcars almost died out in the U.S.[/caption]
Geary Car House, with Friends
Muni’s first streetcar storage and maintenance facility was the Geary Car House, at Geary Blvd. and Presidio Avenue. It opened with Muni’s first lines (the A and B) in 1912 and stopped being a streetcar facility after the Geary lines converted to buses at the end of 1956. Muni built its Presidio Division bus facility behind this carbarn at the end of the 1940s. Its offices sat above the streetcar storage tracks until the early 21st century.
1915 Fair Celebration
Market Street Gets a Closeup
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