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Orpheum Theatre, 147 O'Farrell, south side between Stockton and Powell. Opened April 19, 1909, it was the 4th theatre to be called the Orpheum. In distance, Phelan Building, Call Building, Kamm Building, Bancroft Building. [Orpheum Theater, cost $1,000,000] [RS1211 O'Farrell St. Orpheum ca April 1909]
Downtown / Union Square
View north from vacant lot at southeast corner, later site of Sutter-Stockton parking garage to vendor with wheeled cart in front of 586 Bush St. (Hotel Victoria, Built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel) in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Wooden trough in vacant lot at SE corner. 590 Bush in left background.
Downtown / Union Square
Construction work in progress, Colonial Hotel, Monrovia Apartments.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on O'Farrell to Call Building and Kamm Building in distance. Keiner's and Tait-Zinkand Cafe, Hotel Adena, Swains Bakery & Restaurant. [San Francisco Cal, O'Farrell St., Artopho, no.34]
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Market toward 4th Street to Pacific, Humboldt Bank and Call Buildings. [Pacific & Humboldt Bank Buildings, SS Market St, Corner 4th, BU-31] [G810 BU-031] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view southeast over erection of the stage for singer Luisa Tetrazzini at Market & Grant in front of Chronicle Building, Lotta's Fountain. Geary Street cable car turntable. Metropolis Bank Buiding, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, Jules Cafe. [SS-230 [G810 SS-230] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
[STC-52] View past Geary cable car #3 and turntable to Market Street and Lotta's Fountain. United Railroads streetcar #1532. [G810 STC-052] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across Market to electrical display for Admission Day, California and American flags strung across street. From left, Chronicle Building, Old 660 Market Building (Realty Building, built 1907, with Brown Brothers Clothiers, The Cosmos Cafe, Waldor, Pinzon), Crocker Building, edge of Palace Hotel at right. [G57 SPA-016] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
View east from Union Square. Schroth Building (1908, architect Cunningham & Politeo), Dewey Monument, Whittell Building, dome of Call Building, City of Paris . M. Friedman & Co., Sachs Building in background. [G57 SUS-002](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square, looking North West to Post and Powell Streets, Flags & decorations, spectators seated on grass, standing on rooftop and grandstand in distance [G57 SUS-003](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View north across Union Square towards buildings on Post Street. Temple Emanu-el in background, showing modified steeples from post-earthquake renovation. People sitting on benches. Union Square Building, Union Square Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
View west from near Stockton Street to St. Francis Hotel. Dewey Monument. Elkan Gunst Building behind flagpole on Geary-Powell corner.
Downtown / Union Square
[Hotel Victoria] View to northeast corner. Empty lot on left, street construction, and a line of horse teams with carts.
Downtown / Union Square
View north to Golden West Hotel, Old Louvre restaurant. Powell Street cable cars, early automobile.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view past Lotta's Fountain east to Palace Hotel (with Western Pacific in corner retail space), Balboa Building and Metropolis Bank Building in distance. Chronicle Building on left with Geary Street cable car on turntable. El Camino Real bell at lower left.
Downtown / Union Square
View west from near Stockton and Post. Dewey Monument, St. Francis Hotel, Elkan Gunst Building. [Hotel St. Francis]
Downtown / Union Square
View west past fanned glass awning of Elkan Gunst building with Nilson's (?) Ladies Toggery on ground floor. Hotel Alexander near Mason Street in distance. St. Francis Hotel at extreme right. [Hotel Alexander 352 Geary St]
Downtown / Union Square
View north to Hotel Larne at corner of Ellis in distance. 115 Mason on left is extant, but modified, in 2018, and three-story brick building with curved parapet in middle distance is extant in 2018. Everything else has been demolished. Early automobile, cobblestone street, Cafe Bauer.
Downtown / Union Square
View north past Powell Street cable car turntable to St. Francis Hotel in distance. Techau Tavern, Hotel Turpin, Hotel Lenox and California Cafe near Ellis Street. (Sign painting on side of building extant in 2018.)
Downtown / Union Square