History Spotlight
New Heritage Cable Car Livery Selected
“Trackless Trolleys”?
Tunnel Vision
Though it sits on the western edge of North America, San Francisco had always looked eastward – to its bay, rather than the vast Pacific. Its magnificent protected harbor had driven the City’s economy, and its population, since the Gold Rush of 1849. Residential neighborhoods gradually fanned out from the downtown core in the decades that followed. With the jobs clustered around the waterfront, residential growth followed the early transit lines that connected homes to those jobs.
Snow in San Francisco 85 years ago today
Positively (Twenty-)Fourth Street
Van Ness and McAllister, Nov. 1, 1917
This photo from the SFMTA Archive was taken exactly 100 years before the date of this post, on November 1, 1917. No streetcars in the picture, but we do see important infrastructure: the poles that hold up the wires that bring power to the streetcars.
10/15/17 — Twice!
Here are two photos at the same location. One taken 100 years ago today, the other taken…today.
Merger Day, 73 years ago
Happy Centennial, J-Church
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