View southeast across Van Ness Avenue to crowd watching a fire burn 799 Van Ness at the southwest corner of Eddy (once the Judge William T. Wallace residence). After the 1906 earthquake and fire, it had been Tait's Restaurant, with Tait's Pompeian Garden to its south. By the time of the fire, those were closed and the building was used as a rooming house and for the Spanish Consulate.