Sliding down Market Street

{Biology Professor:

“What do you think of that slide?”

Professor Wagstaff (Groucho Marx):

“Well. I think he was safe at second, but it was very close.”}

These are some slide pictures I took along Market Street from 1983 to 1985, and updated Saturday. (Thumbnail images)

  

Market Street at the Embarcadero: If someone would have told me back then that 43 years later I’d be taking a redo of this picture through the legs of a 45 foot naked woman…..

  

The Metropolis Trust and Savings Bank Building: There’s still a Bank of America there.

  

Market Street at Kearny, “Newspaper Row” once:

  

The Citizen Kane Building at Third and Market: Well actually it was the William Randolph Hearst Building, but it’s well known that Orson Welles patterned Charles Foster Kane after Hearst. Orson Welles died the year I took the vintage picture.

  

Market and Powell Streets, around the time they started running vintage streetcars along Market Street: Actually, I took this update at Market and Powell Streets at the tail end of the Pistahan Parade last August.

  

Market Street at Eighth: That’s the Orpheum Theater on the left.