{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.
San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now 
I worked at 45 Hyde in ‘83 and ‘84, and loved walking along Market Street! Over the years the storefronts have changed, but it’s great to see how little the buildings have changed since then.
It always amazes me, as well, David.