Downtown Pedestrians and Electric Streetcar (1927)

Pedestrians in 1920s fashion, including women in cloche hats and men in work shirts, crossing a wide city street in front of an electric streetcar. — Downtown Pedestrians and Electric Streetcar (1927) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Capturing the dynamic street life of 1920s San Diego, Donald A. Hall Sr. photographed pedestrians crossing a broad avenue in front of a municipal electric streetcar. Women in flapper-era drop-waist dresses and cloche hats walk alongside men in workwear and straw hats, providing an authentic slice of everyday urban life outside the aircraft hangar.