Then and Now

‘Then and Now’: Fourth Avenue and Irving Street

Above: A streetcar collided with a roofing tar truck on Fourth Avenue and Irving Street, circa 1940. The view is on Fourth Avenue looking south. Photo courtesy of a private collector/Western Neighborhoods Project/OpenSFHistory. Below: Parking on the east side of Fourth Avenue changed from parallel to perpendicular and was eliminated on the west side of the street. A building on the UCSF campus is now nestled among the trees seen in the upper left corner of the photo. Photo by Michael Durand.

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