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Above: The details of an accident between an auto and the 21-line streetcar (#410) on Eighth Avenue just south of Geary Boulevard on Feb. 24, 1948 are lost to history, unless one of our readers has a memory of this event. The Star of the Sea Church is in the background. Photo courtesy of a private collector/Western Neighborhoods Project/OpenSFHistory.
Below: The Star of the Sea Church is still going strong 75 years later. The rails and streetcar lines are gone. Reliable Drugs on the southwest corner is now Modera Liquor & Wine. Photo by Michael Durand.
Sometime in 1920, on a Sunday morning, a policeman was killed directing traffic in front of Star of the Sea Church. His last name was Conroy, one of many Conroy brothers on the police force, one of whom was my grandfather John. I don’t know the victim’s first name.
Sometime in 1920, on a Sunday morning, a policeman was killed directing traffic in front of Star of the Sea Church. His last name was Conroy, one of many Conroy brothers on the police force, one of whom was my grandfather John. I don’t know the victim’s first name.
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