5 McAllister Streetcar Line

Route: From Ferries to Ocean Beach at La Playa and Balboa loop via Market, McAllister, Central and Masonic and Fulton streets.

Rail service end: June 5, 1948 (replaced by trolley bus)

Renamed: In 1976, bus line signs changed to "5 Fulton"

Car 818 at La Playa and Cabrillo streets, in front of Playland's "Laff in the Dark" ride, October 1943.

Image: Courtesy of the collection of Jack Tillmany

Sources: Jack Tillmany; John Coll; The People's Railway, Anthony Perles, Interurban Press, 1981; Inside MUNI, John McKane and Anthony Perles, Interurban Press, 1982.

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