View east across intersection to south side of Market Street. Bancroft History Building 721-723 Market, Bijou Opera House 729 Market (opened August 1888 as Bijou Theatre), Headquarters Democratic County Committee. Centre House 719 Market, Shirek & Co. Carpets 733 Market. Examiner newspaper offices at far left, on northeast corner. Freud Corset Co., New Home Sewing Machine, Volapuk Saloon 731 Market, Waldo House [SS-70 Opp Grant Ave-Mkt St San Francisco 1887] [F810 SS-070] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
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Mason & Market
View northerly on Mason from Market, Admission Day Monument (Native Sons Monument) in original location. The five-story building at the left is The Metropole, a lodging house built around 1883 at Turk and Mason. To its right is a three-story building with lodgings on the second and third floors. The first floor was a blacksmith in the 1870s. The Olympia Music Hall (later known as Tivoli Opera House) the large round building in the background was built in 1884 as the Panorama Building.(PF) [F810 SS-112] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
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Mason & Market
View north on Mason from Market, Admission Day Monument (Native Sons Monument) in original location. Tivoli Opera House at Eddy and Mason in background. Building at left is The Metropole lodging house, built around 1883. The four-story building next door at 5 Mason is either recently remodeled from three to four stories with bay windows added on, or rebuilt, though still a lodging house. The building next to it at 9 Mason is the San Francisco Whist Club which was listed there from 1901 through 1905. The Tivoli Opera House beyond, opened on Dec. 23, 1903.(PF) [Mason St. North From Market SS-113] [F810 SS-113] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
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Mason & Market
Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad Fairmont Hotel in distance. The date range for this photo is the production of Florodora, which played for the first time in SF at the Tivoli, from April 9, 1905 through May 7, 1905, and did not have a follow up run before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Metropole lodging house is on the left of the photo. The Hotel Inverness was completed in early 1904. Pacific Shirt Co., Drs. Kergan & Kergan Electric Sanitarium, J.J. Gildea Outfitters, Cohn Bros. Jewelers, The Diamond House, 1034 Market. [No. 15 Mason St. North from Market][F810 SS-114] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
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Pine near Montgomery
View east, from center of Pine west of Montgomery. Furniture, wagons, and debris in street. Pine Street Baths (406 Pine, on left), sign on Montgomery corner for 'Otello' playing at Maguire's Academy of Music, the white building on Pine with the four lampposts in front. Otello played there in January, 1866. Original L & H stereoview title '175. Pine St. from Montgomery St. to Sansome' [Pine St East of Montgy St 1865 SS-148] [F810 SS-148] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
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Market near 8th
View east from the south sidewalk on Market between 7th and 8th toward the Embassy Theatre. Paramount Theatre in left distance. Strand Theatre showing 'Vera Cruz.' National Hotel, Food Fair Merchants.
South of Market
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Market near 8th
View east to Orpheum Theatre with Cinerama showing 'How the West was Won' and McAllister Tower behind. Dr. Orwitz, dentist. Municipal Railway 7-line trolley bus #727. Orange Tree bar.
Civic Center
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Irving Theatre Drawing
Architectural rendering of proposed Irving Theatre at 9th Avenue by Golden State Theater and Realty Corporation. (though the caption reads 9th Avenue, the Theatre was built between 14th and 15th) [Mark T. Jorgensen, Architect. 321 Bush Street.]
Sunset Inner
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Irving Theatre Montage
Advertising sheet of photos and sketch highlighting construction of Irving Theatre in 1925. Portraits of Harry Sack and Wm. S. Godfrey, Jr. It closed August 8, 1962 and has been demolished
Sunset Inner
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Irving Theatre
Irving between 14th and 15th Avenues. Marquee reading 'Conrad Nagel in The Mysterious Lady, Frank Galvin & His Playmates.' Frank Galvin & His Playmates were the Irving house orchestra at that time.
Sunset Inner
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Irving Theatre
Photograph of theatre ceiling with artwork of clouds, sky, and cherubs. 1950s ticket stubs from Jack Tillmany collection.
Sunset Inner
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Irving Theatre
Second floor lobby with chandeliers, sofas, cigarette machine, and balcony overlooking main lobby. [Irving ME22 12-10-42]
Sunset Inner
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Irving Theatre
View of proscenium from balcony. Piano, decorative reliefs and ornamental balconies. [Irving 12-10-42]
Sunset Inner
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Irving Theatre
Lobby with tiled staircases to second level. Griffin reliefs, chandeliers. [Irving 12-10-42]
Sunset Inner
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Irving Theatre Poster
Advertising sheet for 'Nance O'Neil, a California Girl', presenting 'A Women's Past,' a 'powerful sermon against evil,' on January 18, 1916. O'Neil (1874-1965) was born in Oakland, California.
