Theater

Contains 29 photos

Fillmore & Ellis
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Fillmore & Ellis

View southwest across intersection to Geo. Haas and Sons; Clothing store decorated with flags, paintings of ships for Great White Fleet visit. Orpheum and Princess Theatres in background (both opened in 1907). Steel arch over intersection.

Western Addition
Fillmore & Ellis
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Fillmore & Ellis

View southeast to Geo. Haas and Sons; Clothing store decorated with flags, paintings of ships for Great White Fleet visit. Orpheum Theatre in background. Steel arch over intersection also decorated with flags and boughs.

Western Addition
Post & Steiner
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Post & Steiner

View northwest across intersection to Dreamland Auditorium, later Winterland.

Lower Pacific Heights
Powell & O'Farrell
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Powell & O'Farrell

View northeast across intersection to H. Bercovich Cigars and Coffee Dan's on northeast corner (future site of Omar Khayam restaurant), Tait's Coffee Shop, Tait's Dancing Palace, Union Square Theatre.

Downtown / Union Square
West Portal & Vicente
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West Portal & Vicente

View northeast to Muni K-Line #174 with wings livery. Closed men's clothing store, top of Empire Theatre facade at right.

West Portal
14th Ave & Lincoln
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14th Ave & Lincoln

View northwest across the Funston Avenue streetcar storage lot, known as The Boneyard, which occupied the entire Inner Sunset block from Funston to 14th Avenue and from Lincoln Way to Irving Street. Rear portion of Irving Theatre is in the background. Muni 9-Line #122 at center.

Sunset Inner
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View southeast across Market. Central Tower (former Call Building) Humboldt Bank Building, Portola and State Theatres, Pacific Building, Emporium, SF Muni N-Line PCC #1012 with wings livery.

Downtown / Union Square
West Portal & Vicente
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West Portal & Vicente

View northeast across intersection to Municipal Railway (Muni) K-Line streetcar #103. Empire Theatre in background.

West Portal
Ocean Ave & Ashton
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Ocean Ave & Ashton

View west on Ocean to Muni K-line streetcar #153 with wings livery eastbound. El Rey Theatre, Zanzibar Cocktail Lounge, and Christmas decorations in distance. Duplicate of wnp67.0687 with more content on left.

Ingleside
8th & Mission
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8th & Mission

View north up 8th St towards ruins of old City Hall. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument at Marshall Square at lower center. Builders Supply Depot at left, side of Central Theatre at right.

South of Market
Market near Hyde
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Market near Hyde

View east from center of Market St. to new track installation, 17-Line streetcar outbound approaching. King Bros. Books 1182 Market, Enterprise Hotel at left. Mounted policeman. Rialto Theatre (later Embassy) and Jewel Theatre (later Strand) at upper right. [dpwbook22 dpw5318]

Civic Center
Ocean Ave & Ashton
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Ocean Ave & Ashton

View west from center of Ocean to approaching Muni K-line PCC #1021, El Rey Theatre. Richfield Gas (now ARCO/Atlantic-Richfield Co), Gutenberg Press.

Ingleside Terraces
Metropolitan Temple
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Metropolitan Temple

View northeast across 5th Street to Metropolitan Temple (Kalloch's Temple),northeast corner 5th & Jessie Streets. Lincoln School at left. A.M. Goodnough, F.W. Spencer, Pianos; Union Dry Goods Store. Saloon at right. Image also exists as a boudoir card credited to MacDonald and Dowe Publishers O.V. Lange, photographer. [B 39. Metropolitan Temple, San Francisco, Cal.]

South of Market
8th & Market
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8th & Market

View northeast across 8th near Market. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 26-line #845 at evening and Sunday 26-Line terminus. Orpheum Theatre with Owl Drug, Business Mens Assurance Co., Belle Haven City, David D. Bohannon, Marshall Square Building sign over Orpheum Building entrance in background. Empire Hotel at far right,t first of the rooftop bars.

South of Market
15th Ave near Irving
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15th Ave near Irving

View north on 15th to Gertrude Anderson with her husband and three children in front of 1343 15th Avenue. Rear of Irving Theatre in background

Sunset Inner