APRIL 19, 1909: After being destroyed in the 1906 Earthquake and Fires, a second Orpheum Theatre opened in San Francisco.

APRIL 19, 1909: After being destroyed in the 1906 Earthquake and Fires, a second Orpheum Theatre opened in San Francisco.

The first Orpheum Theatre opened as a vaudeville house in 1887 at 119 O’Farrell in San Francisco. Later, other Orpheum Theatres opened in major cities…

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APRIL 18, 1906: A 7.9 earthquake struck off the San Francisco coast and my great-grandmother would remember looking into “the Gates of Hell”.

APRIL 18, 1906: A 7.9 earthquake struck off the San Francisco coast and my great-grandmother would remember looking into “the Gates of Hell”.

UPDATED 4/18/2023 Incorporated in 1850, by 1900 San Francisco had entered its Gilded Age. There was a park bigger than the one in New York…

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