Car barn 47th Grove c1915

Description:
Car barn at Grove (present-day Martin Luther King Jr. Way) and 47th Street (looking northerly), Temescal district, Oakland, Calif. The building in the background is the powerhouse, which, by 1903 had been abandoned, by 1911, had become the J. F. Snow Dyeing & Cleaning Works, and later (possibly in a new building erected on the site) the Peerless Laundry and Cleaning Works. Temescal Creek flowed immediately behind the building. The car barn, by 1911, had become the Yosemite Laundry, and later, the Pullman Company's private steam laundry.

Date of Document:
circa 1915

Document Author:
Unknown

Geographic Location:
Martin Luther King Jr. Way and 47th Street, Oakland, Calif.

Context:
The Key System, a company providing streetcar and bus service in the East Bay cities of Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Oakland, Piedmont, Richmond, and San Leandro, as well as ferry service to San Francisco, operated from 1903 (when it consolidated several independent streetcar companies) until 1960. Bus service was introduced in 1921. With completion of the Bay Bridge in 1936, Key System trains began running (on the bridge s lower deck) between Oakland and the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco. Streetcars stopped operating in 1948. Commuter train service into San Francisco was discontinued in 1958. The company was sold in 1960 to the newly formed public agency, AC Transit.