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''' Unfinished History '''

Long before Dolby and Twitter came to settle on the corner of [[Market Street Between 9th and 10th and a Cursed Highrise|Tenth and Market Streets]], even before the [[Fox Theater|Fox Theater]] was built across the street, an unusual circular building occupied the southeast corner to Stevenson Alley, originally called the Panorama.

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'''Market and 10th c 1890. This was the entrance to the Panorama Building at 1331 Market Street, built in 1887. It led to a huge circular drum in the rear of the lot where 360 degree paintings of dramatic historical events were on view, the so-called Cyclorama being a precursor to cinema.'''

''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org, wnp67.0131''

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'''This Sanborn insurance map from 1886-1893 depicts the Panorama at the corner of 10th and Market Streets.'''

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'''By the end of the 1890s, Thomas Varney's Rambler Bicycle Company had taken over the space and converted it to a velodrome and bicycling sport club.'''

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'''The Rambler Biclorama takes over the former space of the Panorama, 1899.'''

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'''The full-page ad for the Biclorama, 1899.'''

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'''Two riding academies!'''

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'''A hundred years later, this would all be reinvented for the Caltrain station, the Giants ballpark, and other venues.'''

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'''Red arrow points to ruins of the Biclorama after the 1906 earthquake.'''

''Photo: San Francisco History Room, SF Public Library''

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