Geary Street Railway Company (City and County of San Francisco)
Geary Street Railway Company (City and County of San Francisco)
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Product Details
Geary Street Railway Company (City and County of San Francisco)
Certificate Type
City & County Bond
Date Issued
July 1, 1910
Canceled
Yes
Printer
H. S. Crocker Co. Lith., San Francisco
Signatures
Hand signed
Approximate Size
9 1/4" (w) by 14" (h)
Additional Details
Signed by the San Francisco Mayor Patrick Henry McCarthy.
This certificate's fantastic vignette features Lotta's Fountain at the intersection of Geary, Kearny and Market Streets. The stature was commissioned by actress Lotta Crabtree in 1875 as a gift to the city of San Francisco, and would serve as a significant meeting point in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Historical Context
The Geary Street Railway was formed for the construction of a municipal street railway from Market Street, along Geary Street to Point Lobos Avenue, along Point Lobos Avenue to Tenth Avenue; thence along Tenth Avenue to Fulton Street.
The Geary railway was a municipal operation, accountable only to the citizens of San Francisco — so the passage of the Geary bond (used to finance construction) represented a victory of the people over the United Railroads of San Francisco (predecessor to the Market Street Railway Company). URR was the private profiteer rail consortium that had consolidated a number of city transit lines. The people had taken matters into their own hands and achieved the desired results. On December 28, 1912, almost three years to the day after voters approved the bond measure, publicly-operated electric streetcar service began along Geary Street. In fact, it was with the Geary streetcar that the San Francisco Municipal Railway, the People’s Railway — Muni, as we now know it — was born.
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