The Market Street Railway Mural

Design and painting by Mona Caron, 2004. See thank-you and credits panel

Location: 300 Church Street @ 15th Street, San Francisco, California. (Google Map)

Theme: The Market Street Railway mural depicts a 180° bird's eye view of San Francisco's Market Street, through different time periods and historical events.

Click here for a virtual tour of this mural, with detail photos and descriptions.

Awards: This mural has won a 2004 San Francisco Beautification Award from San Francisco Beautiful. Additionally, it was awarded a Cerificate of Honor by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, as well as a California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition. It also received an SF Bay Guardian's 2004 "Best Of The Bay" award, a San Francisco Magazine "best of the Bay Area" 2005 award, and the 2005 Precita Eyes Special Recognition Mural Award.

Articles:

• Read this article in the Bay Guardian by Jonathan Zwickel (july 1st, 2004).

• Another article about this mural by Joel Pomerantz
  

• Article in the June '04 Castro Star, by Julia Bernstein

• The mural on Market Street Railway's website! (streetcar.org)

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