Carville, San Francisco

Carville, also known as Carville-by-the-Sea and Cartown, was an impromptu neighborhood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now the Outer Sunset District of San Francisco, California.

[2] In 1895 the Market Street Railway Company placed a newspaper advertisement in the San Francisco Examiner offering horsecars for $20 ($10 without seats).

By September of that year the cars were already put to a wide variety of uses, including a backyard children's playhouse, a real estate office, a shoemaker's shop,[3] and a shelter for poor people in North Beach.

[4] Colonel Charles Dailey had moved with his wife in 1893 to a hut on a plot rented from Adolph Sutro in the then-unsettled expanse of sand dunes near Ocean Beach.

He rented a horse car from Sutro and in it opened "The Annex", a "coffee saloon", catering to day trippers taking the Park and Ocean Railroad out of the city to the beach and the Cliff House.