Theatre

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View from Twin Peaks
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View from Twin Peaks

View of the City from Twin Peaks [DPW A2611]

Downtown
Music Concourse
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Music Concourse

Golden Gate Park. 'Apple Cider Press' statue with 'Chutes Theatre' on 10th Avenue in background. This bronze sculpture by Thomas Shields was displayed during the Midwinter Fair of 1894. M.H. de Young later purchased it for the City of San Francisco. It was originally a drinking fountain.

Golden Gate Park
Native Sons Monument
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Native Sons Monument

View north to Mason, Turk & Market Sts, Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument, Tivoli Opera House in background at southwest corner of Eddy and Mason, showing musical comedy "The Burgomaster" starting March 10, 1905. Golden State Hotel. Hotel Inverness, Pacific Shirt Co. Monument moved to Golden Gate Park in 1948, moved to Market at Post and Montgomery Streets in 1977.

Downtown
Sutter near Powell
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Sutter near Powell

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to south side of Sutter, to billboards on side of brick building for Fischer's Vaudeville Theatre, Novelty Theatre, both destroyed. See also wnp37.03027. (AS)

Downtown
Corona Heights
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Corona Heights

view from summit of Corona Heights East to Castro St. (Albany St. Quarry)

Corona Heights
Haight Theatre
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Haight Theatre

7-line Haight car looking West near Cole, last day of rail service.

Haight Ashbury
Mission & Virginia
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Mission & Virginia

View north from center of Mission to Excursion trip (Market Street Railway) MSRy #1567 (marked Special) turning onto Virginia from Mission Street headed for rear entrance of 29th Street Car House (background right) on Coleridge. Lyceum Theatre at left, New Prosperity Market and Costa Hotel and Cafe at right.

Bernal Heights
Demolition of Fox Theatre
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Demolition of Fox Theatre

View northeast across Market near 10th to demolition in progress, with Civic Auditorium visible behind. Muni 7-Line Trolley Bus #561, 8-Line Trolley Bus, and PCC #1153. A & C Liquors Groceries at left.

South of Market
Market at Fulton
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Market at Fulton

View south across Market to M-Line Muni PCC streetcar #1109 passing Hittenberger's, Embassy Theatre, Strand Theatre, Kelly's Mens Wear.

Downtown
Market Near Castro
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Market Near Castro

Nickelodeon at 2362 Market Street. The Jose Theatre operated from 1913 to 1919 at 2362 Market Street. In later years it became Phillips Tire Company, then the home of the NAMES Project's AIDS Quilt.

Duboce Triangle
Powell & Columbus
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Powell & Columbus

Washington Square Theatre, View west toward Powell & Columbus Streets, across from Washington Square. Opened 1908, later the Milano Theatre, Palace Theatre, Pagoda Palace Theatre. Demolished August 2013.

North Beach
Ellis near Market
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Ellis near Market

View east from center of Ellis. Humboldt Bank Building, Roos Bros. Clothing, California Theatre in background. On left, Painless Parker Dentist, Federal Grill, Hotel Cort. The Crystal Inn at right in West Bank Building.

Downtown
Columbus & Union
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Columbus & Union

Palace Theatre; Municipal Railway (MUNI) 39-line Coit Muni bus

North Beach
Market near Fulton
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Market near Fulton

View East on Market toward 7th Street. From left, David Hewes Building, United Artists Theatre, Merrill's Drugs, Federal Hotel, Grant Building, Odd Fellows Building; Embassy Theater; Strand Theater; Hotel National.

Civic Center
4th & Market
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4th & Market

View southeast across Market to Muni N Judah Streetcar #1008 with wings livery, Portola and State Theaters in background. Diamond Palace Credit Jewelers with large electric clock. Birdcage traffic signals.

Downtown