The “real” streets of San Francisco

My last post was about the fictional ‘Streets of San Francisco’. This post is a tour of some of the real streets of San Francisco complete with real-life people, cars, cable cars, streetcars, buses, motorcycles, and a few other things I’m not too sure how to identify!

Fulton Street: A streetcar and a motor bus at Fulton and 10^th Avenue next to Golden Gate Park around 1920. I’ll bet MUNI would like to have that in their vintage streetcars and buses collection! (SFGate)

A chocolate truck at the Ghirardelli Building: This was taken at Larkin and North Point Streets, probably around the same time as the previous picture:

Hap Jones legendary motorcycle dealership on Valencia Street, south of Market Street in the 1940’s. Hap opened his motorcycle sales business here in 1937. The motorcycle shop is gone now, and the building certainly does have a different look today! I hesitate to admit it, but I like it! (Imageshack.com)

Market Street at Grant Avenue looking east on August 14^th 1945: San Francisco celebrates VJ Day ending World War Two. Next week will be the 73^rd anniversary of this day. (San Francisco Library)

Turk Street Looking west from Mason, August 14^th 1945: On the same day as the previous picture revelers climb the Winged Victory Statue that used to be about where I took the modern picture from. The triangle shaped building on the left in the vintage picture has only recently been demolished.

The Winged Victory Statue is now on the corner of Market and Montgomery Streets.

A cable car heading north on Mason Street near Greenwich in a Charles Cushman picture taken in 1957:

Market Street looking east near 4^th Street in the mid 1960’s:

Another view of Market Street looking east in 1967: These were taken between 4^th and 5^th Streets. That’s a lot of buses! I only got one in mine. (SFGate)

Polk Street looking north from California Street in 1974: Mug Root Beer ads were on MUNI buses all over town back then, including one in a scene from the 1971 film ‘The Organization’ starring Sidney Poitier. (SFGate)