Haight near Cole
View east on Haight St. toward Straight Theatre (formerly Haight Theatre).
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Alcazar Theatre
Alcazar Theatre on north side of O'Farrell between Mason and Powell. The play "A Far Country" opened on Dec 18, 1961. Theatre was demolished shortly after this was taken.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Eddy
Crew pushing Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car off turntable at Powell and Market. Powell Theatre in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Mission & 23rd
View north on Mission from 23rd Street. Crowds of shoppers, traffic. 14-line Mission limited motor coach #370 with wings livery. Kay's jewelers, C.H. Booker Shoes, Steinberg's Florsheim shoes, Leed's Shoes, New Mission Market, New Mission Theatre playing Vera Cruz in the background. Idle Hour bar, Mission Quality Super. Black sedan in foreground is Mission St. jitney car.
Mission
Mission near 23rd
View north on Mission St. between 22nd and 23rd. Large signs for Leed's, New Mission Theatre, Salter's Drugs, Mission Quality Super.
Mission
Mission near 24th
View north on Mission Street between 23rd and 24th . Family group of father, mother, little girl and baby in stroller. Large signs for Leed's, New Mission Theatre, General Finance, Brady-Dowling, and Howse Hardware.
Mission
Market & Taylor
Viet Nam War protest, view north across Market at Taylor & Golden Gate, crowds of marchers passing the Golden Gate Theatre. (35mm)
Tenderloin
Market near 7th
View northeasterly on Market toward 7th Street. Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line PCC streetcar #1142 at left. Hotel Shaw, Odd Fellows building, Paramount Theatre
Civic Center
Fulton near Market
View northeast from the present (2020) site of United Nations Plaza toward Market Street. West Coast Transit Company bus, posed in the street. South side of Market between 7th and 8th Streets is visible in the background, Strand Theatre, Rivoli Theatre (Western College of Chiropractic), Odd Fellows Building, Grant Building, Hotel Enterprise (demolished)
Civic Center
Geary & Mason
View west on Geary from Mason. Trianon Steak House, Geary Theatre (showing 'The Only Girl'), Curran Theatre (showing 'Suds in your Eye'). Bouquet-Cohn liquors, Trianon Steak House, Hollywood Florist.
Downtown / Union Square
Eddy near Mason
Rear wall of Alhambra Theatre on south side of Eddy. Advertising Billboard with many ads for cars and car dealerships, Old Skipper Whiskey, Home Laundry, Forest Hill, Columbia Garage. Ad for Mae Murray in 'Face Value'(opened at Alhambra Theatre, 934 Market St., January 13, 1918). Alhambra Theatre was built as Market St. Theatre, reopened as the Alhambra in September, 1917 and was later known as the Frolic Theatre (1919), the Cameo Theatre (1923) and the Marion Davies Theatre (1929). It was renamed the Esquire Theatre in 1940 and demolished in 1972.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Powell
Elevated postcard view east on Market from Powell. Crowds of shoppers, traffic, streetcars. State Theatre ,Humboldt Bank Building, Central Tower in distance. Emporium, Lerner's, Pacific Building on right. The California Theatre was renamed the State in 1941. [Market St., Redwood Empire Assn. Photo, Zan 604]
Downtown / Union Square
Fox Theatre
View northwest across Market between Larkin and Polk to Fox Theatre (demolished July 1963) 'Luck of the Irish' with Tyrone Power opened September 15, 1948. Municipal Railway (Muni) M-line streetcar passing.
South of Market
O'Farrell near Stockton
View east on O'Farrell toward intersection with Market and Grant. Call Building in background. Oberon Music Hall in Shiels Building (38 O'Farrell, offices and lodge halls) left of center. In the Kohler & Chase building (with Decker Bros. Piano sign) basement is site of the Belvedere Music Hall (began operations about July, 1904). The three-story building just after it is the Fire Station for Truck No. 1. Phelan Building at right. (PF) Bancroft History Building across Market St. in distance with Ayres' Business College sign. Sign on building across Market for Sarah Cowell LeMoyne in 'The First Duchess Marlborough' at the Columbia Theatre, which played there in November, 1901. (see also wnp27.7791 taken minutes apart) [O'Farrell Street San Francisco Caliufornia 1904 (Sic)]
Downtown / Union Square
View from Telegraph Hill
View southwest from Telegraph Hill toward Russian Hill. High rise apartment buildings, Washington Square, Ss. Peter & Paul Church.
Telegraph Hill