The Tenderloin – 20,000 Missing Seats

This fascinating piece is on the back side of Show Dogs Hot Dog Stand at the corners of 6th Street, Taylor and Market.

The mural is an homage to those movie and performance art theaters (Strand, Unique, Embassy, Rialto, Granada, Regal, Imperia, Pantages, Tivoli, Hub, State, Egyptian, etc) that once graced this area of Market Street prior to the 1906 earthquake and up into the 1950’s.  It is part of the S.F. Arts Commission 2011 Art in Store Fronts Project.

The artist is Rafael Landea an Argentinean artist who moved to San Francisco in 2002. He earned his MFA in Painting and Set Design from the University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Obviously his passion for set design and theater was the impetus for this mural.