45 Amazing Snaps That Capture Street Scenes of San Francisco in the 1950s

These amazing color snaps show what San Francisco looked life in the 1950s.

 
Cable car, San Francisco
 
Cable car, San Francisco

 

California Street, San Francisco

 

Chinatown from California St. looking up Grant Ave., San Francisco

 

Chinatown, San Francisco

 

Cow Palace, San Francisco

 

Ferry Building, San Francisco

 

Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco

 

Fisherman's Wharf, Taylor Street, San Francisco

 

Flower stand, San Francisco

 

Grant Ave. on Grant at Sacramento looking north, China Town, San Francisco

 

Grant Avenue between Clay and Washington, San Francisco

 

Grant Avenue looking north toward California Street, San Francisco

 

Lions Convention, San Francisco

 

Looking east down California St in San Francisco

 

Looking east down California St in San Francisco

 

Looking west along Sutter St., San Francisco

 

Looking west up Nob Hill in San Francisco

 

Marina Jetty with Chevy, San Francisco

 

Market at Mason Street, San Francisco, 1952

 

Northeast corner of Ellis Street at Taylor Street, San Francisco

 

Powell Street cable car, San Francisco

 

Powell Street, near Bush, looking south, San Francisco

 

Powell Street, San Francisco

 

'Redlick's 17 Reasons Why', Market and Castro

 

San Francisco cable car turntable

 

San Francisco cable cars

 

San Francisco cable cars

 

San Francisco Marina

 

San Francisco parking lot

 

San Francisco street scenes

 

San Francisco street scenes

 

San Francisco street scenes

 

San Francisco street scenes

 

San Francisco street scenes

 

San Francisco street scenes

 

San Francisco street scenes

 

San Francisco street scenes

 

San Francisco street scenes

 

Whitney's Cliff House, San Francisco

 

1954 Buick Century and house, San Francisco

 

Buick 1950 and Mercury 1949 on San Francisco streets

 

Bush St. & Grant Av. in San Francisco

 

Cable car of the San Francisco Municipal Railway on the California Street Line near Stockton Street

 

 
Cable car on Powell Street, San Francisco