3rd & Mission
View west on Mission from 3rd Street. Huge number of carriages headed east toward the camera. St. Patrick's Church, Grand Opera House, Victor Duhem's Solar Printing and Tintype Company photo studio on corner.
South of MarketTheatre
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650 Geary
Geary Street between Jones and Leavenworth. Moorish style Shriners building, now known as the Alcazar Theatre [Islam Temple San Francisco]
Lower Nob Hill
Hippodrome Theatre
[Dec 23 1926, 276, 491] 560 Pacific, Hippodrome Theatre
North Beach
Montgomery & Bush
View across intersection to Platt's Hall at northeast corner Montgomery and Bush Streets, opened 1860. Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, J.C. Meussdorfer Hats. Later site of Mills Building. At far right on Bush Street, Mercantile Library, Brooklyn Hotel. [396, BU-22] Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. [TEH396 Platt's Hall] [G810 BU-022] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
City Hall
Looking east on Fulton near Gough to City Hall and War Memorial Opera House.
Civic Center
Sutter & Stockton
View northwest across intersection to Vienna Garden (Run by Joseph Kreling, who later started the Tivoli Opera House on Eddy St.) and Temple Emanu-El. [TEH775, NW cor Sutter & Stockton sts, 1880, CHU-20][G810 CHU-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) (In 2021 the Temple Emanu-El site is occupied by 450 Sutter Medical Building.) Utility poles on Sutter with 8 crossbars.
Downtown / Union Square
6th & Market
Elevated view southeast across Market to David Hewes Building with Western States Life Insurance Co. sign on roof and Summerfield & Haines Clothiers in corner retail space. To left, Hale Bros. Building (with 3 story annex building on 6th Street) to right of Hewes Building, and Wilson Building. At far right, Delger Building with United Cigar Store. At far left, Pantages Theatre, Strand (later St. Francis) Theatre playing Tom Mix in 'The Feud', Empire Theatre (and Lesser Bros. Washington Market, in Hale Bros. Building). [G810 OF-084] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
Broadway near Stockton
627 Broadway, south side, between Stockton & Grant. Fireman sitting inside garage, horse drawn apparatus parked inside. Building at left still Stands, Liberty Theatre at right. [No. 2688, 10/13/1915, Eng. House & Chemical 5, Broadway & Stockton][dpwbook13 dpw2688]
Chinatown
Market & 4th
California Theatre on southeast corner. Humboldt Bank Building on left. Norma Talmadge in 'By Right of Purchase' on marquee. Automobiles, 8-line streetcar #1503. [Superior duplicate of wnp37.00002] [G810 T-018] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
Pine near Sansome
View northwest across Pine to Maguire's Academy of Music on 300 block of Pine Street (4 story white building). Auctioneers (316 Pine) and furniture dealer N. P. Cole & Co (314 Pine) . Wooden wagons on street. [T-20] Same image as wnp37.02726. [G810 T-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Grand Opera House
[TEH856. Grand Opera House, North side of Mission St. between 3rd & 4th 1881 (Sic)] [G57 ST-002](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) Andrews & Stockwell's Grand Opera House, with poster for production of 'Youth' in front. They took over management of the Opera House on October 31, 1882, and Youth opened on December 20, 1882.
South of Market
California Theatre
View northwest across Bush to California Theatre (which opened in January, 1869) and Columbian Engine Company No. 11 firehouse at right. Theatre signs advertising John E. Owens in 'She Stoops to Conquer.'and 'The Rivals'. California Theatre building replaced in 1889 by a much larger building combining the California Hotel and New California Theatre. Wider view of Houseworth stereoview. See wnp37.00597-L [G810 T-029](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Sansome & Halleck
Elevated view northeast to the American Theatre, advertisements for Laura Keene in 'Midsummer Night's Dream', which played there from May 30 to June 6, 1855. A clearer version with slightly different cropping is at wnp71.2473. [G45 ST-001] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Fillmore near Sutter
Post 1906 Earthquake, view north on Fillmore toward Sutter, the large King Solomon's Hall, 1745 Fillmore (built late 1905) at left. Franklin Hall in distance left. [Fillmore, San Francisco's principal business st., after the earthquake - (out)side burned district, Cal. Underwood U-91344 Fillmore St. May 1906 EF-83] [stereo] Horse drawn carts, barrels, many people walking] [F810 EF-083] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Japantown
Unknown Location
Eureka Valley, Older woman and man outside of ice cream shop advertising Acme Ice Cream. Poster on wall advertises 'The Bright Shawl' with Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish. Sept 17-18, 1923 (Mission High School Album)