Building Notes

Joel Selvin, writing in his book, San Francisco: The Musical History Tour,said of the Globe Theater: "The long-gone Globe theater, which disappeared sometime before World War I, was the scene of some of the early triumphs in the career of Al Jolson, who arrived in San Francisco one week after the 1906 earthquake, the city still a smouldering ruin. For the next two years, he played the city's ten-cent vaudeville houses and, at the Globe, not only met his first wife, Henrietta Keller, an aspiring actress appearing on one of the same bills, but began to develop a modest following for the first time in his brief career, giving him the impetus to move to New York and try Broadway." (See Joel Selvin, San Francisco: The Musical History Tour, [San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996], p. 109.)

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