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View north on graded but unpaved Bayshore Boulevard from Paul Avenue. View north on Bayshore Boulevard under construction north of Paul Avenue. Avenue Theatre sign at left. Bernal Heights in the distance. Kroehler Manufacturing Building at right still stands at 1485 Bayshore Blvd. [Bayshore grading Section B N to Bernal][dpwbook42 dpwA1306]
Portola
View north on Bayshore Boulevard under construction north of Paul Avenue. Avenue Theatre sign at left. Bernal Heights in the distance. Kroehler Manufacturing Building at right still stands at 1485 Bayshore Blvd. [Bayshore Blvd. Section B dpwbook43 dpwA1485]
Portola
Boy Scouts parade; passing New Mission Theater where "Shaggy Dog" is playing
Mission
Market St between 7th and 8th Streets, looking southwest across Market. Muni M & L cars outbound #150; crowd boarding; kid on cow catcher. Strand Theatre, Hotel National, Benatar's Department Store, Crystal Palace Market, a huge food mall, is visible behind cars, demolished 1959; current site of Trinity Place: (See sf.curbed.com article for good history of Crystal Palace.) Hotel Whitcomb and Merchandise Mart in distance. Market Street decorated for Shrine Convention. (parade was July 21, 1946)
Civic Center
View northeast on West Portal from Vicente. Empire theatre at right (then known as the Portal), showing 'Wild Party'. Bank of Italy (later Bank of America) at left. Twin Peaks Tunnel portal in distance. [West Portal Ave. looking E from Vicente St.] [dpwbook45 dpwA2125] Duplicate of wnp67.0027
West Portal
Elevated view from the David Hewes Building 995 Market at 6th Street (at the time known as the Western States Life Building) Paramount Theatre, City Hall, Empire Hotel, Twin Peaks in the distance.[Market W from 6th dpwbook48 dpwA2508]
South of Market
View east on Market to approaching N-Line streetcar, Loew's Warfield Theatre, Mechanics Savings Bank Building (as Bank of Italy), Marion Davies Theater, Flood Building, Humboldt Bank Building with Bank of America sign on top, St. Francis Theater at right. [Market E of 6th dpwbook48 dpwA2506]
South of Market
View nortwest from middle of Market to Muni J-Line #100 with wings livery, Red Cross flag, and boy sitting on Eclipse fender; Twin Peaks, Fox Theater at left, Donnelly Hotel, Hotel El-Rey.
Civic Center
925-929 Taraval Street. flats above a storefront with The Different Bakery, built 1928. Flanked by a restaurant and the Parkside Theater.
Parkside
2789 24th Street. Opened as The Roosevelt in 1924, this theater was known as the York for many years. It closed in 1993 but reopened, as Brava Women's Theater Arts in 2001. Stelling's Market. Coca Cola delivery truck.
Mission
2797 24th Street. Stelling's Market next door to The Roosevelt theater.
Mission
View northwest across Market to last stages of demolition. Same demolition company as Sutro Baths. Homer Aron's wrecking company. Took 6 months to tear it down. ~February-August.
Civic Center
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
Pix Theater, Funland, hot dogs stand and pedestrians
Downtown / Union Square
View west on O'Farrell between Stockton & Powell. Orpheum Theater on left, Opera singer Odali Careno topping the bill. Union Square Theater ("Vaudeville and Pictures"), Adena Hotel, Lenox Hotel, Alcazar Hotel, St. Nicholas Hotel, Hauschildt Music. Autos and cable cars in distance.
Downtown / Union Square