Theatre

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Market & Larkin
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Market & Larkin

West on Market Street sidewalk from Larkin Street toward Fox Theatre

Civic Center
Market & Stockton
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Market & Stockton

View across Market from about Stockton Street A line of Municipal Railway (Muni) PCC streetcars. including #1158 L-Line. Humboldt Bank Building (Bank of America) and Paris Theatre. Most buildings on the south side of Market here now demolished.

Downtown / Union Square
Alhambra Theater
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Alhambra Theater

View north across Polk to Alhambra Theatre, showing Phyllis Haver & Harrison Ford in 'The Nervous Wreck'. Walter Rudolph and his Melody Masters. Timothy Pfleuger and J.R. Miller, Architects. Opened November, 1926. Marina Hardware, Olden's Bakery [Jack Tillmany Collection SC9]

Polk Gulch
Alhambra Theater
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Alhambra Theater

View north across Polk to Alhambra Theatre at night, Phyllis Haver & Harrison Ford in "The Nervous Wreck". Walter Rudolph's Melody Masters. Timothy Pfleuger and J.R. Miller, Architects. Opened November, 1926. Marina Hardware, Olden's Bakery [Jack Tillmany Collection SC9]

Polk Gulch
Seattle, Washington
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Seattle, Washington

First & Madison, Seattle, Washington

Balboa & 38th Ave
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Balboa & 38th Ave

View east on Balboa from 38th Avenue, B-Line Streetcar #84 passing Dom DiMaggio's bar on the corner. Balboa Theater in the background. Cocker spaniel in the street

Richmond Outer
Market & Fulton
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Market & Fulton

View southwest across Market to 7-line Streetcar with riders on cow catcher; Strand Theater, Hotel National (with Army and Navy Goods Store), Benetar's, Crystal Palace Market, Hotel Whitcomb, Orpheum Theater. Flags strung across Market with banner for Travel Sports and Boat Show, April 24 to May 5, Civic Auditorium. [Market St. Bet. 7 & 8 Rush Hour]

Civic Center
Mission & 20th
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Mission & 20th

View northwest across intersection to 14-Line #1583, El Capitan Theater, Granat Bros. Jewelers at left, El Capitan Theatre at right.

Mission
Market & 7th
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Market & 7th

Paramount Theater, Looking East

Civic Center
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

View southwest across intersection to Muni 71-Line #2561 bus. Central Tower building with Local Loan and Owl Rexall Drugs. 711 Club, Morris Plan in remodeled Kamm Building, Sports Land and Hub Theater in Bancroft Building, Greyhound Bus office, Paris Theater, Humboldt Bank Building, Roos Atkins, Emporium in distance. In far right distance, BART/Muni construction.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Mason
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Market & Mason

View northeast across Market to parade commemorating the 143rd Anniversary of George Washington's First Inauguration. Navy band [Saturday 11-12] [Burton Photo Album] Garfield Building, Sweet Sixteen Ladies Wear, Davies Theater, later Esquire, previously Frolic, etc., Flood Building

Tenderloin
San Bruno & Bacon
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San Bruno & Bacon

View north across San Bruno to Avenue Theatre. Lido Pastry, Jolly Joan Fountain. Municipal Railway H-line #131 with 'Enlist now - U.S. Coast Guard' on side.

Portola
Castro & 18th
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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
Divisadero near Grove
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Divisadero near Grove

Divisadero between Hayes & Grove passing Ames Drugs, Alaska Club, and the Harding Theatre. 32-Line #460 There was no passenger rail service on Divisadero at this time. Line 32 was a temporary Market Street shuttle during track reconstruction. From Tom Gray collection. (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #160 renumbered #460 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #160.)

Alamo Square
Market near 8th
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Market near 8th

View from center of Market Street looking east; Orpheum Theater on left; Crystal Palace Market, Hotel Whitcomb on right. [Market St.]

Civic Center