Print, Photographic

Benicia First Street 1940s

Benicia First Street 1940s

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

2016.003.0068

Description

This is a photograph of First street in Benicia taken in the 1940s. A store sign on the right reads "Working Mans Store", Tochterman's and the movie "Edge of Darkness" is advertised on the marquee at the movie theater on the left. (This WWII war movie was released in1943 and starred Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan.) The movie theater may is the Victory theater which closed in the 1950s.

Collection

Benicia Historical Museum Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1943