Market & 9th
View west from Market near Larkin of Fox Theatre demolition.
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Market near 6th
View east on Market between 5th & 6th, St. Francis Theatre (playing The Naked Runner) at right. Esquire Theatre at left. Kress Department Store, Emporium
Tenderloin
Veterans Building
War Memorial Veterans Building, View west across Van Ness near McAllister. Home of San Francisco Museum of Art (since 1975 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) 1935-1994. Building completed 1932. Herbst Theater is on the first floor.
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Interior of theater with show underway; musicians in pit; full house
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Diving pool act with women posing all around. Circus?
Oriental Theatre Interior
Postcard image of the interior of the Savoy Theatre, 60 McAllister Street, previously known as the Oriental Theatre . Later become the President Theatre (JT).
Tenderloin
6th Ave near Geary
View North on 6th Avenue. 4-line streetcar #215. Lincoln Bowling alley at left. Lincoln Bowling Alley had operated as Lincoln Theatre 1912-1940.
Richmond Inner
Golden Gate Theatre
Elevated view northwest to theatre under construction.
South of Market
Golden Gate Theatre
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
Mission near 22nd
View northeast across Mission to Grand Theatre, Bay View Federal Savings Bank (1963) in background. The Lucky Pork, The 88 cents store. 14-Mission line bus #763.
Mission
Market near Jones
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
Granada Theatre
'Unsinkable Molly Brown'playing. Granada vertical sign moved from the old Paramount after it changed names. Mission and Ocean.
Mission Terrace
Market & 10th
This was the entrance to the Panorama Building at 1331 Market Street, built in 1887. It led to a huge circular drum in the rear of the lot where 360 degree paintings of dramatic historical events were on view. The city had one other panorama building, at Eddy and Mason streets (WMK) Gettysburg panorama and museum. Civil War decorations all over. In 1896 the building became the Rambler Biclorama, an 'Elegant Riding Academy'.
South of Market
Fox Theatre
Projection room. Market between 9th and 10th Streets.
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Fox Theatre
Interior view of full house and balconies.
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