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Market & Stockton Aug 13, 1917

Elevated view southeast down Market to large military parade during World War I, likely on the occasion of the arrival of Japan's envoy, Viscount Ishii Kikujirō. Some 3,000 troops escorted him to City Hall from the Embarcadero. Roos Bros. Department Store, Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Portola Theater with Billie Burke in The Mysterious Miss Terry. California Theatre, which opened on November 1, 1917, in late stages of construction at 4th and Market.
Photographer Unknown (Marilyn Blaisdell Collection / Courtesy of a Private Collector)

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