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View northwest across intersection to Muni 2-line streetcar #461. Coliseum Furs, Ed's Togs, Dr. McGuire dentist. Rail service on this line ended on July 1, 1949. (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #161 renumbered #461 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni #161.)
Richmond Inner
View west across intersection to Muni 2-Line #241 Eastbound on Clement at 6th Ave, another in distance. Coliseum Furs, Ed's Togs, Dr. G.W. Smith optometrist, Clement Hotel (540 Clement), Nino's Barber Shop on right. Lick Market, Coliseum Theatre in distance on left. Most buildings in photo still stand in 2025. Rail service on this line ended on July 1, 1949.
Richmond Inner
View east across Divisadero to approaching Muni 1-line #264. S&S Market on corner. Supreme Radio 1702 Divisadero. 24-Divisadero bus on right.
Lower Pacific Heights
Golden Gate Ave and Taylor Street. Bond Rally for World War II with military band on street. Marquee for Golden Gate Theatre reads 'Frank Sinatra in Higher and Higher.'
Tenderloin
Guild (formerly Egyptian and Studio, later Pussycat) and Centre Theatres (formerly the Round-Up), Keno Kuisine Cantonese restaurant 1063 Market, Don's Beauty School.
Tenderloin
Opened as the Imperial Theatre in 1912, renamed the Premier in 1929, then became the United Artists in May 1931, renamed again as the Market Street Cinema in 1972. 'Becket' playing, with large promotional ads above marquee. Market Street near 7th Street. Centre Theatre on left. Elite Coffee Shop, Frank's Jewelers.
South of Market
Looking west on Market Street. Billboard ad for Majestic Radio. Fox Theatre showing 'It's a Great Life.'
Civic Center
View northeast across Market to parade. Regal Theatre at left, Loew's Warfield Theatre in distance showing 'Texas Rangers'. Top of Golden Gate Theater at upper left. Pig 'N Whistle, Painless Parker Dentist.
South of Market
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
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
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
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
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
Enlarged detail of WNP67.0032. View northeast across intersection to Castro Street Theatre (converted into retail store in 1922, later Cliff's Variety), Home Market, Corinthian Grocers. Awning with Boss of the Road Overalls ad. See wnp67.0019, with same movie playing.
Castro
Interior view of the old Castro Theatre on Opening Night, 485 Castro near 18th. (now 417 Castro) The building still stands in 2022 and is the home of Cliff's Variety. [Opening night, Castro Theatre. Dec. 21, 1910.]
Castro