Union & Webster
View east on Union Street. Metroplitan Theatre at right, showing 'Romola'
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18th & Collingwood
'5 Cent Theatre', Liberty Theatre - 4200 18th Street on the northwest corner of Collingwood. It opened in May 1908 and closed two years later on December 20, 1910 when the first (precursor to the current) Castro Street Theatre opened the next evening. Purported to be the Nasser Brothers first theatre. (JT)
Castro
The Hippodrome
560 Pacific, between Kearny and Montgomery Streets.
North Beach
Fillmore Near Sutter
View north on Fillmore. Ornamental steel arches over intersections. Frederick O. Haussler, Photo Studio, 1759 Fillmore (later site of Haussler Theater). Signs for The Up To Date Hairdressing & Manicuring Parlors, Aloha, The Brand at right. Approaching URR 22-Line streetcar in distance. [United Railroads U02355, Fillmore Street Looking North from Post Street Towards Sutter]
Japantown
28th & Church
View southwest across Church to approaching Muni J-line #1036 with wings livery. Former theater across street was built as Searchlight in 1916, had many other names before it ended its life as a theater as the Del Mar in 1965. St. Paul's Church in background left.
Noe Valley
Van Ness & Sutter
View northeast to approaching SF Municipal Railway (Muni) D-line streetcar #205. Scottish Rite Temple (a Masonic Temple, opened 1911) at right (later Regency I movie theater from 1967-1998, later Regency Ballroom. In distance, Hughson automobile dealership at Bush corner.
Cathedral Hill
Crystal Palace Market
View southeast across Market to Crystal Palace Market. Francesca Theatre (later Strand) at far left. Beyond at left, Odd Fellows Building, Grant Building. Cropped from wnp30.0105.
Civic Center
St. Francis Theatre
Previously Empress, Strand Theatres. 965 Market Street near Mason. Showing 'The Enforcer'with Humphrey Bogart, with elaborate advertising and models of hands holding guns hanging from marquee. Demolished 2013.
Tenderloin
York Theatre
View southeast to York Theater, 24th Street near York. Later became the 'Brava Theatre Center.' Bell Rexall Pharmacy
Mission
New Follies Burlesk
View southwest across intersection to 2961 16th St. at Capp. Later the 'Victoria Theatre' (that name also painted on side of fly loft) Lachman Bros., Albers flapjack flour signage.
Mission
Van Ness near Hayes
Elevated view northwest to Labor Day parade coming down Van Ness Ave. 'Motion Picture Projecting Operators Union' float. Van Ness Theater (1907-1910) being demolished.
Civic Center
Van Ness Theatre
259 Van Ness Avenue, at Grove, in business from March, 1907 to August, 1910, largest local theater at that time. 'Ethel Barrymore'in lights.
Civic Center
Haight Theatre
Haight and Cole Streets. Showing 'Topper Returns'and 'Life with Henry'
Haight Ashbury
Haight Street Theatre
Haight and Cole Streets. Ad for August 2, 1914, showing 'The Identification'
Haight Ashbury
Mission St. & Los Olivos Ave.
View north from the Middle of Mission to the Grand View Theatre and buildings beyond, at 6356 Mission St, Daly City, the northwest corner of Mission and Los Olivos (which no longer intersects with Mission). Southbound United Railroads (URR) 14-line streetcar #1232, 26-Line car in distance. Building stands in 2023, heavily remodeled, as Pacific Chinese Restaurant. [Business Center near Union Park The Key to the Peninsula B-11]
Outside SF