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[[Image:Castro-Market-switchback-1919.jpg]] | [[Image:Castro-Market-switchback-1919.jpg]] | ||
'''Market and Clayton switchback, c. | '''Market and Clayton switchback, c. 1925''' | ||
''Photo: private collector'' | ''Photo: private collector'' | ||
[[Image:Market-and-Clayton-switchback-(Market-called-Falcon-until-1927)-c-1920 SFDPW.jpg|720px]] | |||
'''Market and Clayton switchback, c. 1920. Market was called Falcon Street at this spot until 1927.''' | |||
''Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection'' | |||
This sharp turn from Clayton to Market was not negotiable by early streetcars so operators would "switch" the backs of the passenger seats at Market Street, thereby "switching" the streetcar in the reverse direction. | This sharp turn from Clayton to Market was not negotiable by early streetcars so operators would "switch" the backs of the passenger seats at Market Street, thereby "switching" the streetcar in the reverse direction. | ||
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'''Electrified buses replace the old streetcars by the late 1930s.''' | '''Electrified buses replace the old streetcars by the late 1930s.''' | ||
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'''33 MUNI bus on Stanyan near Haight Street, 1930s.''' | |||
''Photo: Charles Ruiz collection'' | |||
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'''33 bus on Stanyan, c. 1955.''' | |||
''Photo: Private Collection'' | |||
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''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ||
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'''Upper 18th Street just below Market, c. 1940s.''' | |||
''Photo: Charles Ruiz collection'' | |||
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'''Upper 18th Street looking east towards Hattie (at left), 1926.''' | |||
''Photo: Charles Ruiz collection'' | |||
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Latest revision as of 21:27, 28 August 2014
Unfinished History
Market Street switchback at Mono and Caselli and Clayton, 1921.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Market and Clayton switchback, c. 1925
Photo: private collector
-c-1920_SFDPW.jpg)
Market and Clayton switchback, c. 1920. Market was called Falcon Street at this spot until 1927.
Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection
This sharp turn from Clayton to Market was not negotiable by early streetcars so operators would "switch" the backs of the passenger seats at Market Street, thereby "switching" the streetcar in the reverse direction.
May 2010 - Looking down Market Street at Clayton
Photo: Michael Greene, San Francisco, CA
The 33 streetcar maneuvers around a Ford motorcar around 1920.
Electrified buses replace the old streetcars by the late 1930s.
33 MUNI bus on Stanyan near Haight Street, 1930s.
Photo: Charles Ruiz collection
33 bus on Stanyan, c. 1955.
Photo: Private Collection
1998
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Upper 18th Street just below Market, c. 1940s.
Photo: Charles Ruiz collection
Upper 18th Street looking east towards Hattie (at left), 1926.
Photo: Charles Ruiz collection