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'''Market and Clayton switchback, c. 1919'''
'''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 C. R. 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.'''


[[Image:33-on-Stanyan-near-Haight-1930s.jpg|720px]]
'''33 MUNI bus on Stanyan near Haight Street, 1930s.'''
''Photo: C. R. collection''
[[Image:33BUS955.jpg]]
'''33 bus on Stanyan, c. 1955.'''
''Photo: Private Collection''


[[Image:castro1$clayton-switchback.jpg]]
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''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''


[[Image:Upper-18th-street-w-8-streetcar-c-1940s.jpg|720px]]
'''Upper 18th Street just below Market, c. 1940s.'''
''Photo: C. R. collection''
[[Image:Upper-18th-street-looking-east-towards-Hattie-at-left-1926.jpg|720px]]


'''Upper 18th Street looking east towards Hattie (at left), 1926.'''


''Photo: C. R. collection''


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Revision as of 17:01, 12 July 2016

Unfinished History

Market Street Extension, original condition at switchback, Mono and Caselli 1921 AAB-6185.jpg

Market Street switchback at Mono and Caselli and Clayton, 1921.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library


Castro-Market-switchback-1919.jpg

Market and Clayton switchback, c. 1925

Photo: private collector

Market-and-Clayton-switchback-(Market-called-Falcon-until-1927)-c-1920 SFDPW.jpg

Market and Clayton switchback, c. 1920. Market was called Falcon Street at this spot until 1927.

Photo: SFDPW, courtesy C. R. 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.

Castro1$switchback-1919.jpg

May 2010 - Looking down Market Street at Clayton

Photo: Michael Greene, San Francisco, CA


Switchb1.jpg

The 33 streetcar maneuvers around a Ford motorcar around 1920.

Switchb3.jpg

Electrified buses replace the old streetcars by the late 1930s.


33-on-Stanyan-near-Haight-1930s.jpg

33 MUNI bus on Stanyan near Haight Street, 1930s.

Photo: C. R. collection

33BUS955.jpg

33 bus on Stanyan, c. 1955.

Photo: Private Collection

Castro1$clayton-switchback.jpg

1998

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Upper-18th-street-w-8-streetcar-c-1940s.jpg

Upper 18th Street just below Market, c. 1940s.

Photo: C. R. collection

Upper-18th-street-looking-east-towards-Hattie-at-left-1926.jpg

Upper 18th Street looking east towards Hattie (at left), 1926.

Photo: C. R. collection

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