Oakland
View east from the current Eastshore Park near Lake Merrit, Grand Lake Theatre at left. Interstate 580 now runs through the middle of this view. Large house in the center of photo was at 500 Lake Park Avene.
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Market near 4th
Night view west on Market toward 4th Street, California Theatre at left ( Gloria Swanson in Prodigal Daughters), Roos Brothers and Crystal Cafeteria (762 Market) at right
Downtown / Union Square
O'Farrell & 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 wnp27.7594 taken minutes apart)
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 7th
View southeast across Market Street between 7th and 8th, opposite Fulton. Market St. Railway 9-line streetcar #1608. United Artists, Embassy and Strand Theatres. Grant Building, Odd Fellows Building, Serbin's Tailor 1129 Market.
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Market & Golden Gate
View northeast across Market, Market Street Railway (MSRy) streetcar #1229 on fan trip excursion passing the Warfield Theatre. Hotel Oxford, Dean Building (1906, demolished 2018, with Art Deco remodel), Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Garfield Building, Esquire and Telenews Theatres, and Flood Building in background. Stanley's suits and coats, Margaret Burnham's Cottage Candies on left. Birdcage traffic signals. Banners strung over Market, some with 'U.S. Army.'
South of Market
Market near 7th
View southeast across Market near 7th, Municipal Railway MUNI J-line PCC #1152 passing the Embassy Theater. Trolley bus #5308 at left. Odd Fellows building, Grant building in the background.
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Mission & 22nd
View northeast across Mission Street from 22nd Street. New Mission Theatre at left, New Rialto Theatre (aka Wigwam, Crown, Cine Latino) at right showing Lucille Ball in 'Annabelle Take a Tour'. El Capitan and Majestic theatres in the distance. Avalon Coffee Shop< Martha Washington Candies, American Trust Company (later Wells Fargo) Bank at right. Birdcage traffic signal.
Mission
Grant near Pacific
View south on Grant Avenue between Pacific and Jackson. Mandarin Theatre 1021 Grant, (renamed Sun Sing in 1950) at the end. Sam Lung & Co. grocery, 1050 Grant, on left. American and other flags strung across street.
Chinatown
Market near Van Ness
View east from center of Market between Van Ness and 12th Street. Municipal Railway (Muni) interurban streetcar #1234 likely on a fan trip excursion. (40-line Interurban usually ran on Mission Street.) Merchandise Mart building (Opened 1937) in distance, with radio broadcast antenna on roof.
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James Lick Monument
View southeast from behind the James Lick Monument (Pioneer Monument) toward the Orpheum building across Hyde St. at its original location at the corner of Hyde and Grove. Pantages, later Orpheum Theater at left. (The now-removed statue grouping 'Early Days' figures at left.) [California Monument]
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James Lick Monument
View east from behind the James Lick Monument (Pioneer Monument) toward the Orpheum building across Hyde St. at its original location at the corner of Hyde and Grove. [California Monument] (The now-removed grouping 'Early Dayse figures at left.)
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Oakland
1906 Earthquake and Fire, ruins of Empire Theatre at 466 12th Street near Broadway in Oakland advertising the Marneys and Spectacular Shipwreck scene.
Outside SF
Market & Castro
View south on Castro Street from Market. Castro Theatre at left, showing movie 'Sting.'
Castro
Castro & 18th
View north on Castro toward 18th Street. Castro cable cars #4 and #7 lined up on the last day of service. Castro Theatre, Bon Omi Store, Prudence Penny grocery, Hibernia Bank. 8-Line bus #057? in background left.
Castro
Fox Theatre
Interior view of the balcony of the Fox Theatre.
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