San Francisco subway
Subtitle: double traffic paved vehicular driveway below tidewater level : planned and constructed by California Harbor Commission in 1924; financed by Board of State Harbor Commissioners, City and County of San Francisco, Market Street Railway.
Contributors: California. Board of State Harbor Commissioners for San Francisco Harbor.
Publisher: California State Print. Office
Published: 1925
Place of publication: Sacramento
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Ferry Station Post Office Building (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History.; Streets -- California -- San Francisco.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Commerce -- History.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Harbor.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Harbor -- History.
Table of contents: value: Subway planned and constructed by Harbor Commission; value: Ferry Building opened in 1898, built on 5000 piles; value: Passenger traffic from bay points in thirteen years; value: Need for more San Francisco piers; value: Wharves and the seawall of early days; value: Forty years ago on the waterfront; value: The bar off the Golden Gate has not shoaled in fifty years; value: Old sailing ships buried on the waterfront; value: Tonnage of ancient sailing vessels and steamer of today; value: Foreign commerce doubled in thirty years; value: Busy factories in San Francisco fifty years ago; value: Traffic on California's great river systems; value: Belt railroad development in thirty-four years; value: "Steamer days" of early days; value: Ancient wharves and modern piers; value: Harbor bond issues; value: Tonnage and revenue gains; value: San Francisco receives $83,000,000 annually in the shipping business.