AAC-8317

[Scene of streetcar accident]

1946 June 8

Still image

1 photographic print: b&w.

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Folder: S.F. Transportation-Streetcars-Accidents.
Note attached to photo: "STREETCAR MAKES WILD DOWNHILL RUN - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.-Runaway streetcar comes to stop at bottom of San Francisco hill only after smashing through steel street post, snapping off wooden telephone pole, knifing front porch from a home and smashing two automobiles. Fast-thinking motorman, John H. Paterson, San Francisco, as he discovered the broken brake mechanism, shouted to a passing motorist to race ahead and clear the streets, and to the car's only other occupant, a conductorette, to lie down on the floor. She was uninjured, he, only slightly.".
"Acme Photo."

brn: .b10231730

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