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9 years ago
This week's Photo Archive time warp takes us on a special trip back in time to exactly one hundred years ago today! While we have many photographs that fall on many days of the year, it's rare that...
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9 years ago
Muni has long strived to improve service for passengers and paramount among those efforts are safety measures. One of the primary places to take a look at making our system safer is in the vehicles...
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9 years ago
San Francisco's streets see all kinds of vehicles and while the Muni Photographers of the past were primarily focused on public transportation, their cameras often caught some pretty sweet rides in...
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9 years ago
A key part to operating a transportation network as complex as ours boils down to maintaining the infrastructure that the system runs on. This week's photo takes us to Market Street, our City's core...
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9 years ago
A transportation network as complex as ours offers some unique challenges for repairing the equipment, machinery, and vehicles that serve our system. This week's photo excursion takes a look at one...
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9 years ago
While fashion isn't frequently a subject of photos in our Archive, it's often a "side story" found in the details of images that flesh out the past in an interesting way. Today's publicity photo from...
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9 years ago
The Mission Bay area is one part of town that has been changing rapidly in the past five-plus years, erasing its own history in the process. Originally, Mission Bay was, you guessed it, a bay created...
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9 years ago
In this shot are three vehicles that had a major impact on transportation history, albeit from very different perspectives. Public and private transportation as we know them today were, in some ways...
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9 years ago
This week, we'll take a close look at one of the stranger details found in a photograph from our glass plate collection. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, "patent" medicines were "all the rage,"...
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9 years ago
Today's Throwback Thursday photo from the Archive takes us to Valentine's Day, 1946 and catches a busy street scene at the intersection of Sutter and Stockton. Outdoor Shot of Traffic Congestion...
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9 years ago
Since the very first horse-drawn streetcars rolled down Market Street way back in the mid-19th century, San Francisco's transit system has remained almost entirely above ground. With this surface-...
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9 years ago
This week's photo excursion takes us deep under the streets of San Francisco for a sight seen by very few eyes. One of the biggest transportation projects of the 1960s and '70s in the Bay Area was...
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9 years ago
This week we bring out a rare shot from the archives that gives an overview of one little "patch" of San Francisco. One of only a handful of aerial photos in our collections, this 4x5" negative was...
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9 years ago
When discussing railroads owned by the City of San Francisco most people only think of the Municipal Railway (Muni) that we're all so familiar with. But did you know that there was another railroad...
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9 years ago
San Francisco is a town that loves its food, with new restaurants popping up frequently and almost any cuisine imaginable being doled out somewhere in town. Today's trip back in time (and "under the...
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9 years ago
Tourism and San Francisco go together like bread and butter. With all the spectacular views the city has to offer and year-round mild weather, it's no wonder so many people flock here to visit. Even...
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9 years ago
In celebration of Walk to Work Day , we bring you a little glimpse into pedestrian life from 111 years ago. Taken at Presidio Avenue and Sacramento Street around January 1904, this shot catches an...
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9 years ago
This Saturday marks the 109-year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake and fire. For this anniversary, the SFMTA Photo Archive will be rolling out two collections of photographs that document the...
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9 years ago
With an extensive archive that stretches back to the 19th century, we’d be fools not to sit back each Thursday and cruise on the vast fabulousness of the historic images at our fingertips. So, each...
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9 years ago
Muni's history is long and varied, filled with great moments like this publicity shot from 196 9. Muni General Manager John (Jack) M. Woods (in the driver's seat) enlisted a handful of helpers to...
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9 years ago
That's right, the 14 Mission has been in operation for 120 years. "Born" on September 15, 1894, the 14 Line has expanded and undergone some major rebuilds over the years since streetcars first...
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9 years ago
This Sunday, June 4, 1967 shot at Haight and Clayton comes from a series of about 20 photos taken from Masonic to Stanyan to illustrate the traffic flow (or lack thereof) along Haight St. All shapes...
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9 years ago
Tomorrow afternoon at 5:04 p.m. marks the 25-year anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that rocked the San Francisco Bay Area. Today's #throwbackthursday takes a look through Muni's lens in...
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9 years ago
The history of Muni is a major thread in the story of San Francisco that literally binds the city together in a fundamental way. That history is also a fundamental part of Muni and the SFMTA, from...
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5 years ago
As we wrap up Woman's History Month, we would like to mention several other heroes that helped shape the face of transportation in our City. Almost a hundred years earlier than Rosa Parks’ bold...