16th near Valencia
Two men walking past Roxie Theatre at 3117 16th St.
Mission DoloresTheatre
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Clement near 9th Ave
Exterior and marquee of abandoned Coliseum Theatre. Pedestrians pass by the boarded-up front.
Richmond Inner
Sacramento & Presidio
View east on Sacrament from Presidio Market Street Railway Streetcar #249. Vogue Theatre. [0249-04B-01 WB on Sacramento at Presidio 5 March 1942]
Presidio Heights
Clement near 9th Ave
View northeast across Clement to Municipal Railway (Muni) 1-line streetcar #250. Coliseum Theatre in background right. Richmond Mexico City Restaurant (836 Clement) and Tip-Top restaurant, Weinstein Co. store at left. Banners strung over street for Clement Sale Days. [0250-01-01 WB on Clement West of Ninth Avenue September 1948]
Richmond Inner
Clement near 24th Ave
View east on Clement toward 24th Avenue, SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 1-line streetcar #651 (renumbered Market Street Railway car #251) Dittmann's Photo Finishing, 4-Star theatre in the background [0251-01-01 WB on Clement West of 24th Avenue September 1948]
Richmond Outer
Alcazar Theater
Alcazar Theatre, O'Farrell St. between Powell & Stockton [interior] [F810 T-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Mason
View north on Market from Mason during BART construction. Pix and Esquire Theatres, Flood Building, Woolworth's, Emporium. Aetna Life Building at Montgomery Street under construction. Streetcars running on rerouted tracks.
Tenderloin
Market near 7th
View easterly on Market from 7th. Municipal Railway 7-line bus #2406 and L-line streetcar #1153. U A Theatre, Centre Theatre, Federal Hotel, Merrill's Drugs, Korbette's Department Store.
Civic Center
Market & 7th
View east from center of Market at 7th Street. Hotel Shaw, Crocker Anglo Bank, Paramount Theatre, Warfield Theatre on left. On right, David Hewes Building, Weinstein's Department Store, Centre Theatre playing 'La Dolce Vita,' United Artists Theatre playing 'West Side Story,' Federal Hotel, Merrill's Drugs and Grant Building at right with Foster's.
South of Market
City Hall
View west from Market and Fulton toward City Hall (now site of UN Plaza). Orpheum Theatre at left. Old Main Library (later Asian Art Museum) and Federal Office Building on right.
Civic Center
Alhambra Theater
Elevated view south across Bush to Alhambra Theatre (325 Bush) between Montgomery and Kearny St, which opened on May 22, 1868. Men in bowlers & top hats pose under marquee. Frank Elwell, Merchant Tailor, 321 Bush. [F810 T-003] [Alhambra Theatre on Bush St., opened 1867 (Sic)]
Financial District
Sansome & Halleck
Elevated view northeast to a brick theater, advertisements for Laura Keene in 'Midsummer Night's Dream', which played there from May 30 to June 6, 1855 [F810 T-004] [American Theatre, NE corner of Sansome & Halleck St. 1854 (Sic)]
Financial District
California Theater
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. Different crop of image wnp67.0008 [California Theatre, Bush St. west of Kearny 1869] [F810 T-005]
Downtown / Union Square
Grand Opera House
[Grand Opera House, North side Mission St. between 3rd & 4th 1881] [F810 T-010][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. Same image as wnp71.0903.
South of Market
Connecticut near 18th
View north on Potrero Hill to freeway and downtown skyline beyond. New Potrero Theatre building used by Lighthouse Church of God in Christ, Evan's House of Music, Gil & Frank's Club Mayflower bar.
Potrero Hill