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  • ...as a "Northern California Premiere," the screening at the venerable Roxie Theater was introduced by a festival staffer as, "a film that will not appear in an ...Club|well-known Irish bar]] at the time, a mere two blocks from the Roxie Theater, had an "underground railway" in the basement that harbored the four, along
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  • ...presenter of contemporary and tribal Pilipino arts. Her newest dance/film/theater work, Incarcerated 6x9, will premiere in May of 2018 at Bindlestiff Studios [[Image:Bayview-opera-house-experimental-theater.jpg|350px|left]]
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  • ...milies who had dwelt there. Tourists today will find an enormous multiplex theater, apartment complexes, hotels, and numerous Japanese restaurants dominating
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  • ...chandise Mart Building (later Twitter) is visible on the left, and the Fox Theater on the right. Eventually it proceeds as far as 6th Street, turns south and
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  • '''Union of Concerned Commies during their agitprop theater stage, 1980.'''
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  • '''Night view of the Midway Theater at 585 Pacific Avenue in the Barbary Coast, c. 1910.'''
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  • ...local ecological consciousness of the Bay Area. Toured with "Reinhabitory Theater" of multispecies stories in 1977 throughout Northern California to inspire
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  • ...in the Financial District. It was called "Working at Play—Playing at Work Theater" and consisted of a serious of office tasks portrayed in their full absurdi
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  • Thus began the street theater phase of the UCC. The declaration of war—backed up with a list of typical
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  • ...d economic projects. Clara and her suitors often went to the 'Metripolitan Theater' and even Chastina and Alfred "saw Hamlet played by Mr. Murdock." One eveni
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  • ...room, you will reach the [[Mitchell Brothers |Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theater]], where your thirst for sleaze (and grotesquely overpriced drinks) can be
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  • ...of variously weird compartments like the different rooms in Hesse's Magic Theater." It was said to have "as many levels and ladders, as a Hopi Indian pueblo.
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  • The Warchest Tours were a roving guerrilla-theater nonviolent direct action that confronted the corporations that fund and con ...Collective encouraged avoiding arrest, nonviolent direct action, guerrilla theater, creative protest and fun. We advertised "NO MONITORS," refused to ask or n
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  • 5. “The Theater Programmes,” ''San Francisco Chronicle'', March 16, 1902, p. 21
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  • ...n Howard at U. C. Berkeley, assisting him on the construction of the Greek Theater. But her ambition was to open her own practice. She took the State licensin
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  • ...no companies, film-makers with whole movies unseen, artists in no gallery. Theater made an appearance where there were no curtains.
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  • ...rerunner of [[Politics of Business|Ralston’s water plan]]), Maguire sold a theater to the city for use as a city hall. Maguire's bar provided a political educ 28. Ibid., passim; for Maguire and the sale of the theater, see Lotchin, ''San Francisco: 1846—1856'', pp. 219, 223.<br>
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  • ...of the atrocities within Chile and asserted their opposition through song, theater, and visual arts. Rene Castro is a Chilean exile forced to settle in the Ba ...rformed with him.”(16) The joint benefit concert at the Berkeley Community Theater on the 7th Anniversary of La Peña kept the space open and thriving. Read a
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  • ...nced “payter” and “mayter.” The Saturday matinee audience at the [[Avenue Theater|Avenue]] found this hilarious. The movie English affected all of us in the
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  • ...ing smiles on peoples' faces. The Sisters mix facts and levity, truths and theater to raise our communities in all aspects of their lives. While often being v
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  • Dude Theater Flesh and Blood Mystery Theater
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  • ...sand. Yes, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars were spent on fireworks, theater parties, and revelries, at a time when men, women, and children through the
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  • ...the area for the rest of his life, working out of a small office above his theater and continuing to create erotic films, some of which have since become coll
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  • ...contract dispute and threatened with an injunction against singing in any theater, she sang for free on the street to a crowd of two to three hundred thousan
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  • ...em on a bowed-out wall where they remain today in the present Diego Rivera Theater.
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  • ...s Valencia's cultural activity -- the one-room art galleries, experimental theater venues, and churches -- that best defines the avenue.
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  • ...rooms for music students. The PAEC could both boost the school’s music and theater offerings, and serve as a performance venue and cultural anchor for the com
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  • ...colorful facades on Market Street theaters, demolishing the historic [[Fox Theater|Fox Theatre]], and stopping bookmaking activities in the Tenderloin.
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  • ...cquisition and uses of these new spaces. Most of the impetus has come from theater and dance people who originally organized to protest the use of the entire ...a representative selection of both current and historic material in dance, theater, art and poetry. With the exception of Beau Beausoleil at Paperback Books,
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  • ...in the late 1870s by Dolly Adams — former “Water Queen” of the Bella Union Theater — the Ellis Street establishment was taken over by Mrs. Hayman following
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  • ...om an LA investor. The local "B" movie theater had been renamed [[Straight Theater demolished|The Straight]] and remodeled with a performing stage and an enor ...ty about the process that was probably too scary for the time. (The Living Theater, which incorporated many of these techniques of ritual and audience contact
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  • ...ssail the Taft-Hartley Law. Additionally, on the marquee for the Paramount Theater, the film that is showing is Variety Girl, released in 1947.'''
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  • ...s Art Building, Full Moon Coffeehouse, SF Women Against Rape, Mothertongue Theater. We will not have a “full-house” until we explore more completely the i ...film series was held at the Roxie Theater, a collectively run independent theater on 16th street near Mission. Each set of films had a theme, with the second
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  • ...w a crowd of 3,000, clustering around three different stages where comedy, theater, dance and poetry were performed, as well as Brazilian jazz, reggae, folk,
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  • ...Market arts district, arts organizations such as the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) are reclaiming vacant and underused buildings. New market rate and
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  • ...ng demonstrators. As the oddly paired groups passed in front of the Castro Theater where I was standing, one of the crowd broke away and approached within 20
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  • ...ry, when the league outgrew the site, the park was replaced by the Central Theater, featuring touring shows and melodramas. It was destroyed in 1906, and for
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  • Bordered by the theater district and Union Square on the east and City Hall, the Opera House, Symph
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  • ...cans from flocking to this botanical gardens-amusement park-museum-outdoor theater-and-zoo all rolled into one.
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  • ...other hour, chanting and singing union songs. Sometimes the Bay Area Labor Theater would also perform, creating quite a scene.
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  • ...port of philanthropist Walter S. Johnson, and its art gallery now houses a theater and the Exploratorium. Recently, the [http://www.maybeck.org Maybeck Founda
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  • ...is work as a journalist, Roger was the “Voice of America” for the Far East theater, monitoring Japanese media and producing pro-Allied radio broadcasts from s ...and entered the world of broadcasting after being involved in the Federal Theater Project and other Popular Front activities.(4) By the 1930s Roger was a sta
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  • ...nts, services, stores, and support collectives, with subheadings of dance, theater, bookstores, schools, graphics, printing, publications, radio, typesetting, ...h a print shop, an auto repair shop, wood shop, pottery shop, as well as a theater, worm farm, darkroom, and other activities. The collective members shared a
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  • ...historic sites. In 1972, residents angered by the destruction of the [[Fox Theater|Fox Theatre]] in 1963 and the loss of homes in the Western Addition created
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  • <font size=4>A Theater Lawsuit with Far-Reaching Implications</font size> ...in San Francisco Superior Court, a jury determined that not only were the theater owners not damaged by BART’s construction, but the value of their propert
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  • ...tt Grogran’s, and Emmett's own genius as an actor and his flair for public theater. Billy had intuited that people had internalized cultural premises about th
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  • ...o a long list of our badly off-the-mark prognostications! One local street theater group took the name “Reagan for Shah” to dramatize the absurdity of his ...nified under communist North Vietnam. Across Haight Street I could see the Theater Club, a grungy bar from which patrons would spill out nightly into often br
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  • ...ned Commies on Union Square. The above flyer was distributed as the street theater took place.'''
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  • ...he newest, greatest projection system in any state building of the time. A theater-quality video projector was installed, along with the latest development in
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  • ...it-prop theater and flyers|Union of Concerned Commies 1979-1980, agit-prop theater and flyers]]
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  • ...gnificant structures have been designated on West Portal Avenue, the movie theater has been a fixture since it opened as the "Portal Theatre" on December 26,
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  • ...and David Warfield, the internationally renowned actor and namesake of the theater on Market Street.
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  • ...venue presented dance bands, Olivia artists, film nights, art exhibitions, theater and more.
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  • ...orm Irish plays. The actors, who had been involved with the Irish National Theater, were promised the very best of the Irish plays being written at that time. '''Irish Theater, PPIE 1915.'''
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  • ...borrowed $5,000 from his uncle and opened the Parkview Salon in the Palace Theater building on Powell Street across from Washington Square. "My mother was a f
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  • ...to gay bookstores, bars, demonstrations, and film festivals at the Castro Theater. My wife and I often stop for a beer at Harvey’s just to cruise the crowd
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  • ..., Marxian Economics, Trade Union Strategies and Tactics, and Revolutionary Theater, among others:
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  • ...ther the earthquake or ensuing fire. At St. Luke's hospital, the operating theater collapses into the kitchen a floor below.
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  • ...build a movement expressive of them… The counterculture’s use of guerrilla theater and other forms of creative expression, its lack of interest in the convent
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  • ...t least one point, of this peculiar creation. The camp is a kind of living theater in which even an old, jaded political activist like me can suspend, briefly
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  • ...s only allowed to do it because one of her brothers accompanied her to the theater, waiting for her to perform, and then accompanied her home after the show.
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  • ...o pass through the metal detectors that had existed for years. Now a whole theater of police state “security” had to be performed, from taking off shoes,
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  • ...lled the poet Al Robles. The Weathermen group planted a bomb at the Herbst Theater, and they went on radio and said, We did this because the I-Hotel was being
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  • ...the 1950s, as burlesque fell out of popularity, and striptease moved from theater venues like Minsky’s to bars and nightclubs. As alcohol sales replaced ti
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  • ...who are trying to stop their ship from returning to the Southeast Asia war theater. Some of the men had watched last April's peace march when 200,000 marched
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  • ...opular psychedelic rock band “The Grateful Dead” was banned from the Greek Theater. Policing became more aggressive and quickly became the most efficient mean
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  • ...ay stoned all the time. No students looking for a dormitory. No artists or theater people, or wackies in any form, unless they were really into building a com ...e and scrape the paint off the skylight. Warehouse communities of artists, theater people and mechanics have formed their own groups for little more reason th
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  • ...e found only a half dozen large cabins one finds today a stock exchange, a theater, churches of all Christian cults, and a large number of quite beautiful hom
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  • ...ions and community-based artists were prolifically making murals, posters, theater, and other cultural forms. Once again, the lowly Gestetner came to the resc
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  • ...cility in San Carlos. Most of the military work went to supply the Pacific theater, particularly antennas for the aeroplane known as the "black widow." When t
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  • ..., entertainment focus of other nightclubs and thought of the hungry i as a theater: “I wanted a place where a lot of expression went on” (Banducci). When
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  • ...ion and Defense Fund). There were also teach-ins, workshops, music, street theater, videos, art classes, poster making, and other educational and entertaining
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  • ...nto the main showroom. This room was separate and enclosed, with ticketed, theater-style seating and waiters who circulated and took drink orders. Guaraldi’
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  • ...gotiations with the owner, the MCO targeted theater patrons, picketing the theater entrance. They handed out fliers declaring their intention to notify the pa ...climate as a result of the MCO’s efforts to close pawnshops and the Crown Theater, the Mission Merchants’ Association also refused.
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  • ...ard Liberation Front and Xago Jaurez and Rosa Gonzales of headRush/hip-hop theater highlight creative works that disrupt mundane expectations of daily life as
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  • [[Islais Creek Remembered | Prev. Document]] [[Avenue Theater| Next Document]]
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  • ...surrounding her as we enter the meeting hall, holding signs, doing street theater, painting renditions of my mom’s life experience in a mural,” he says. ...er to motivate collective action.” CJWP members wrote and performed street theater and poetry, painted tenants’ stories and Chinatown’s struggles on canva
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  • [[Chinese Theater in the 19th Century|Continue reading]]
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  • Miya Masaoka: In your theater pieces, what has been your relationship or intersection with members of Flu
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  • ...ng or come to workshops and may instead go to watch a film, or may go to a theater. At least they see, well it may be exaggerated, as all films are, larger th
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  • ...which we had just watched around the corner at the refurbished New Mission Theater next to Vida. The movie is about others and the monsters who persecute them ...nd I brought up “Black Panther” showing down the street at the New Mission Theater.
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  • We produced a screening at the [[Remembering the Palace Theatre|Pagoda Palace Theater]] of the Bogart-Bacall film ''Dark Passage'', which takes place on Telegrap
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  • ...es to support a rich, engaged creative scene. From the Blue Blouse Players theater groups to the John Reed Clubs (writing and graphics), from the Red Dancers Artists, writers, theater groups, filmmakers, and photographers whose cultural and media work strengt
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  • ...uarters that year. Later the Wigwam was leased out and run as a vaudeville theater.[[Union Square History footnotes|10]] The Cosmos Club and the Pacific Club,
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  • ...ense Fund, Rainbow Grocery, The Communist Party Bookstore, the Roxie movie theater, the Tenants Union, Artemis Cafe (a women-only cafe), Osento (a women-only
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  • ...ass San Francisco and Oakland. Down came Market Street's [[Fox Theater|Fox Theater]], grandest of all movie palaces. Down went BART into the bowels of the ear
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  • ...d in 1938, chronicles Dr. Robinson’s history as a physician, comedian, and theater entrepreneur. On July 4, 1850, he opened a 200-seat “Dramatic Museum” o
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  • Images of City Hall: walking back from the Strand Theater, through UN Plaza out to Civic Center Plaza, and a full moon fills the corn
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  • ...Since the Chinese Building contained a restaurant, tea house, joss house, theater, and bazaar it not only replicated many of the standard sites of Chinatown� ...tured an impressive gateway, a thatch and wood tea room, and a three-story theater that hosted the performances of a troupe of Japanese jugglers. Japanese lan
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  • 28. Ibid., passim; for Maguire and the sale of the theater, see Lotchin, ''San Francisco: 1846—1856'', pp. 219, 223.<br>
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  • ...use included neighborhood non-profit office space, a recreation center, a theater and a branch of City College.
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  • ...250 protesters gathered on the Federal Building plaza, speeches and street theater put forth ACT UP's demands for action and drew attention to the policy fail .... Supportive merchants gave window space, and the management of the Castro Theater provided the large poster cases at the famed movie palace (closed at the ti
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  • ...g, ''The Oracle'' newspaper and the [[Straight Theater demolished|Straight Theater]] did use the phrase in a press release of April 5, 1967 to announce a seri
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  • ...ra meal or animal feed. The oil was used in soap and as “butter” for movie theater popcorn. Then, in the early ’70s, an American post-World War II tax-free
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  • .... Events careened wildly between grand multi-media extravaganzas involving theater, film, dance and music and straight-ahead punk rock shows. The organizers w
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  • ...ontrast was an impromptu appearance at the Vote Peace rally by a guerrilla theater group called Shock Troupe, who distributed a leaflet entitled “Beware Gee
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  • ...s marathon run of cranking out action after media-drenched action — street theater, picket lines, fax zaps, letter-writing campaigns, marches, rallies, guerri
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  • ...which included rides, bands, carolers, choirs, sports demonstrations, live theater, and dancers - all on a voluntary basis. In 1983, for the first time, the D
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  • ...nged materials from the abandoned movie theater next door and built a mini-theater in one corner. On opening night, March 30, 2001, five hundred or so people ...ough, and Nordstrom Rack had chosen another site. In 2013, the St. Francis Theater, the 949 Market squat, and the other contiguous properties were demolished
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  • ...ment Company, constructed an eighteen-story office building and the Strand Theater on the Market Street lots in the Claus Spreckels estate.(43)
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