Site information:

430 Bush St between Kearny and Grant, San Francisco

Nothing remains of this site, as far as I know.

37.790785,-122.404692

Plaque information:

Private plaque

Plaque text:

On this site on January 18, 1869, the California Theatre, built by William C. Ralston, opened with the following stock company: John McCullough, Lawrence Barrett, Harry Edwards, Willie Edouin, E. B. Holmes, William Mastayer, John T. Raymond, W. F. Burroughs, W. H. Sadley Smith, John Wilson, Edward J. Buckley, Mrs. Judah Emelie Melville, Elizabeth Saunders, Annette Ince, Marie E. Gordon, Sophie Edwin, Minnie Walton, and Julia Buckley. This theater remained a brilliant center of drama until August 11, 1888. Among artists who played here were Charles W. Couldock, Edwin Adams, John Broughan, Edwin Booth, Barton Hill, Walter Montgomery, Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Adelaide Neilson, and Lotta Crabtree.

Tablet placed by the Commonwealth Club of California and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company - 1932.

Registered 3/29/1933