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Ocean Avenue, 1900 block |  |
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This may have been an alternative name for Ocean Avenue. |
(the future location of) the El Rey Theatre, which opened in 1931. |
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| The United Railroad #12 Ocean Avenue streetcar line came out Mission St. to unpaved Ocean Avenue on its way to the beach. Victoria Street is in the background. |
It has been replaced by the Muni K Ingleside line that traverses the Twin Peaks Tunnel, which opened in 1918. |
1942 photo of the El Rey Theatre, with a gas station and a food shop on the left and a Safeway on the right. The 1931 El Rey Theatre was designed by Timothy Pfleuger and is San Francisco Landmark # 274 Here is a blog with information about the El Rey Theatre: http://sanfranciscotheatres.blogspot.com/2019/05/el-rey-theatre.html |
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In 1940, there were six businesses in the 1900 block of Ocean Avenue that used the name "El Rey" (1923, 1942, 1952, 1966, 1970, and 1990), three grocery stores (1948 a Safeway, 1951, and 1990), two bakeries (1931 and 1938), two hardwares (1935 and 1944), a pharmacy (1901) and a drug store (1973). 1940 House and Street Directory The above link is broken. Some of this information may be found at: Polks Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory 1940 |
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