Downtown Scenes Early 20th Century

Unfinished History

Mission Street at 1st, c. 1910.

Photo: Charles Ruiz collection

First Street looking south from Market, c. 1928.

Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection

Sansome and Market streetcar crash, c. 1929.

Photo: Charles Ruiz collection

Southeast view across Market from Battery, looking down First Street, November 10, 1936.

Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection

New Montgomery south from Market Street, November 10, 1936.

Photo: Charles Ruiz collection

Geary Blvd. looking weset at Grant, Union Square and St. Francis Hotel visible in distance, c. 1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection

Streetcar Number 6 has gone off the rails on Market near Powell, c. 1940.

Photo: Charles Ruiz collection