Today is the 108th anniversary of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and Fire.
The Miles Brothers, pioneering San Francisco producers and distributors, offered films of San Francisco before the earthquake, including their famous film known as "A Trip Down Market Street."
The "Panoramic View of Newspaper Square at Kearny and Market Streets" mentions "Lotta Fountain" and the "Sutter Street Turntable." This was actually the Geary Street, Park and Ocean turntable. The intersection was called Newspaper Square because the offices of the Chronicle, the Examiner and the Call were on three of the corners.
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