Playing with a 1907 image from SF Public Library’s digital SF collection. A horse grazes next to a billboard painted on the side of a 1901 corner house on Baker Street and Filbert Street. The street is rubble, the railway lines being pulled up. The advertisement painted on the wooden house reads, “Enjoy a Pleasant Evening at H.W. Bishop’s Majestic, Frisco’s Finest Theatre.” Prices were 25, 50, 75 cents at this MidMarket theatre that opened in April 1904 and was destroyed by the 1906 Great Earthquake & Fire exactly two years later. Across the street is a similar advertisement for Burn’s Hamam Turkish Sulphur Baths in downtown SF on Ellis Street, which remained in operation until the 1980s.
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