San Francisco Trams (1946)

San Francisco, California, United States of America (USA). We have been very kindly sent the following information about this film: • 0:00 - 0:04 - View from Twin Peaks looking East down Market Street (the big avenue down the center) and that is the Bay Bridge on the right. In the background is the Bay and Oakland. • 0:05 - 0:10 - Shot from inside a Motor Coach (i.e. bus), it’s looking South. I’m not positive, but I think that may be shot from Twin Peaks. • 0:11 - 0:16 - Streetcars going down Market Street. You can tell it’s a streetcar because there are only two rails. Aside from the buildings in the image, you can tell it’s Market Street because the vehicle on the right is a Market Street Railway White Front Streetcar and the vehicle on your left (at the edge of the frame) is a Municipal Railway Streetcar. They were the two remaining competing transit companies in SF. At the time this sequence was shot, it would have already been sold to Muni and they would be in the process of reorganizing the lines, wh
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