An F Market streetcar turns around at the foot of Market Street, in front of the Ferry Building.

Another view of Market Street in downtown San Francisco, taken near the intersection with Montgomery Street, looking northeast towards the Ferry Building.

Market Street is a major street and important thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, past the Civic Center and the Castro District, to the intersection with Corbett Avenue in the Twin Peaks neighborhood. At this point, the roadway continues as Portola Drive until it terminates in the southwestern quadrant of San Francisco. San Francisco F Market line Peter Witt streetcar at foot of Market Photograph taken by chris_j_wood on the 26th May 2003, with original filename DCP_0832. ... San Francisco F Market line Peter Witt streetcar at foot of Market Photograph taken by chris_j_wood on the 26th May 2003, with original filename DCP_0832. ... F Market PCC cars at Jones Street terminal. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 195 KB) Market Street at the corner of Montgomery Street in San Franciscos financial district, 2005. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 195 KB) Market Street at the corner of Montgomery Street in San Franciscos financial district, 2005. ... A statue on Montgomery Street in the heart of the Financial District commemorates the United States annexing San Francisco and California from Mexico during the Mexican-American war in 1848. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The City by the Bay; The City That Knows How; Golden Mountain (historic Chinese name) Location Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates , Government City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Geographical characteristics Area     City 600. ... The Embarcaderos Ferry Building The Embarcadero is the name given the eastern waterfront of San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay. ... The Embarcaderos Ferry Building The Ferry Building is a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay and a shopping center located on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. ... San Francisco City Hall on Civic Center plaza in 2004 San Franciscos Civic Center is an area of a few blocks north of the intersection of Market Street and van Ness Avenuethat contains many of the citys largest government and cultural institutions. ... The sidewalk on Castro Street looking north from 18th toward Market displays some of the color of the neighborhood. ... The Twin Peaks. ...

Market Street serves as the terminus for all intersecting streets in the downtown area: named streets are to the north and west of Market Street, and numbered streets run to its south and east. Similarly, streets starting on the southeast side of Market Street are generally perpendicular to Market Street versus the streets starting on the northwest as Market Street forms a "diagonal" to the layout of the rest of San Francisco.

Market Street is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, carrying in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses and diesel buses. Today Muni's buses, trolleybuses and heritage streetcars (on the F Market line) share the street, while below the street the two-level Market Street Subway carries Muni Metro and BART. While cable cars no longer operate on Market Street, cars of the San Francisco cable car system terminate to the side of the street at the intersections with California Street and Powell Street. Long described as San Francisco's Fifth Avenue, its Champs-Élysées, its Main Street, Great White Way or Path of Gold, Market Street serves as a major street for downtown San Francisco. A horsecar was an animal-powered streetcar (or tram). ... Cable Car in San Francisco A San Francisco cable car A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are propelled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. ... a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ... Trolleybus public transfer in Bratislava, Slovakia A trolleybus (also known as electric bus, trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram or simply trolley) is a bus powered by two overhead electric wires, from which it draws electricity using two trolley poles. ... An early motorized bus - a Benz truck modified by Netphener company (1895) A bus is a large automobile intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ... Two forms of public transport operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni): on the left, a bus (the 38 Geary line) and, on the right, the F Market historic streetcar. ... F Market PCC cars at Jones Street terminal. ... The Market Street Subway is a subway tunnel in San Francisco, California, United States. ... Muni Metro is a mass transit system operated in the City and County of San Francisco by the San Francisco Municipal Railway. ... BART (in full, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District) is a rapid transit electric train service that serves parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, including the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Fremont, and Walnut Creek. ... San Francisco Cable Car No. ... Street sign at Fifth Avenue and East 57th street Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New York City. ... The Champs-Elysées (pronounced , literally the Elysian fields) is a broad avenue in the French capital, Paris. ... Main Street is the generic name (and sometimes the official name) of the primary business street of a small town in the United States, Canada, some parts of Scotland and also in some countries in central Europe (e. ... Great White Way is a nickname for Broadway in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City, specifically that stretch that encompasses the Theater District, between 42nd and 53rd streets. ...

History

Market Street cuts across the city for three miles from the waterfront to the hills of Twin Peaks. It was laid out originally by Jasper O'Farrell, a 26-year old trained civil engineer, who emigrated to Yerba Buena. Yerba Buena was later renamed San Francisco in 1846 when the town was captured by Americans as a result of the Mexican-American war. O'Farrell first repaired the original layout of the settlement around Portsmouth Square and then established Market Street the widest street in town, as an arrow aimed straight at Los Pechos de la Choca, the Breasts of the Maiden, now called Twin Peaks. Writing in Forgotten Pioneers, T.F. Pendergast wrote, Binomial name Clinopodium douglasii (Benth. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Combatants United States Mexico Commanders Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Stephen W. Kearney Antonio López de Santa Anna Mariano Arista Pedro de Ampudia Strength 60,000 40,000 Casualties KIA: 1,733 Total dead: 13,283 Wounded: 4,152 25,000 killed or wounded (Mexican government estimate) The Mexican-American... Portsmouth Square is the first public square established in the community of Yerba Buena before the gold rush overtook San Francisco. ... This article is about the television show. ...

"When the engineer had completed his map of Market Street and the southern part of the city, what was regarded as the abnormal width of the proposed street excited part of the populace, and an indignation meeting was held to protest against the plan as wanton disregard for rights of landowners; and the mob, for such it was, decided for lynch law. A friend warned O'Farrell, before the crowd had dispersed. He rode with all haste to North Beach, took a boat for Sausalito, and thence put distance behind him on fast horses in relay until he reached his retreat in Sonoma. He found it discreet to remain some time in the country before venturing to return to the city."

At the time, the right of way of Market Street was blocked by a sixty foot sand dune, at the location of the Palace Hotel now, and a hundred yards further west stood a sand hill nearly ninety feet tall. The city soon filled in the ground between Portsmouth Square and Happy Valley at First and Mission and the dunes were leveled and the sand used for fill.

Market Street parades have long ascribed significance to global events, such as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the Preparedness Day bombing of 1917. The parade of the influenza masked revelers of the first Armistice Day, and the 1934 general strike that paralyzed the ports of the Pacific Coast, the end of World War 2. In the days of the first United Nations conferences, Eden, Molotov, Stettinius, and Bidault sped up Market street, waving to the crowds of hopefuls. Categories: Stub | Worlds Fairs | California history | San Francisco history ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Armistice Day is the anniversary of the official end of World War I, November 11, 1918. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A general strike is a strike action by an entire labour force in a city, region or country. ... Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 The Port of Wellington at night. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The various meanings of Eden: Garden of Eden Eden programming language Garden of Eden pattern, a term used in cellular automata Eden is the name of a film. ... Molotov can refer to: Vyacheslav Molotov - a Soviet politician a former name of the Russian city of Perm Molotov - a Mexican Rap/Metal group Molotov cocktail - a crude explosive weapon devised using a flamable fluid inside a bottle with a saturated wick (rag) inserted to cause immolation of a target... Portrait of U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. ...

Market Street may have enjoyed its finest moment on Christmas Eve in 1910, when Luisa Tetrazzini sang to the city she loved. Categories: Stub | 1871 births | 1940 deaths ...

External links

• Photo tour of Market Street A photo tour of Market Street complete with narrative text.