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Elevated view north across street to Alcazar Theatre, 260 O'Farrell between Powell and Stockton. Signs advertise Marjorie Rambeau in the play 'Antonia' (play ran from September 23 to October 13, 1928) Hotel Spaulding next door, extant 2020 as Bartlett Hotel with parapet removed. [Alcazar Theatre SF #3 01]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated night view, Alcazar Theatre, 260 O'Farrell between Powell and Stockton. The theatre was called United Nations Theatre from 1945 to 1952. Marquee advertises 'The Best Years of our Lives', with crowd and spotlights in street. Later site of Handlery Union Square Hotel. [Alcazar Theatre SF #3 as UN 1946]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view looking down at the intersection of Market & Ellis Streets. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 21-line streetcar #1741 at center with crowd passing in the crosswalk between cars. Pacific Building at 4th and Market in the background. [1741-21-01 EB on Market at Fourth 1938]
Downtown / Union Square
View West on Sacramento toward Polk. Sacramento-Clay line cable cars #15 and #18 at Polk St. Palo Alto Hotel, Safeway market, rear of Old First Presbyterian Church at left. Foster's at right. [CC015-55-02 CC018-55-01 Sacramento & Polk 5 July 1941]
Polk Gulch
Exterior of Bella Union Theatre at 825 Kearny St., color. [Bella Union SF] (Building remodeled and stands in 2020)
Chinatown
Exterior of Boarding House Theatre / nightclub at 960 Bush St., color. [Boarding House SF BOH-01C February 1978]
Lower Nob Hill
View southeast across intersection of York & 24th St. to exterior of York Theatre at 2789 24th St. Bell Rexall Drugs pharmacy. [Brava as York SF Exterior 1970s]
Potrero Hill
Exterior of Montgomery Playhouse (formerly Broadway Theatre) at 620 Broadway, color. [Broadway SF as Montgomery Playhouse 1970s]
North Beach
View SW down Point Lobos Avenue toward Whitney's Cliff House
Sutro Heights
View southwest across intersection. Peggy Imports.
North Beach
View south across intersection towards Quong Fat Co. and Paddy Wagon topless club
North Beach
Night view north on Grant from Clay. Neon signs, blurry.
Chinatown
View east on 22nd Street toward Mission. Leed's Shoes on the right. Potrero Hill in the background.
Mission
View north on Mission from 23rd Street. Crowds of shoppers, traffic. 14-line Mission limited motor coach #370 with wings livery. Kay's jewelers, C.H. Booker Shoes, Steinberg's Florsheim shoes, Leed's Shoes, New Mission Market, New Mission Theatre playing Vera Cruz in the background. Idle Hour bar, Mission Quality Super. Black sedan in foreground is Mission St. jitney car.
Mission
I.S. Van Winkle & Co at 413 Market St. Also H.N. Cook Belting and Hose, and Cubery & Co. Job Printing. People posed in front of building.
Financial District