1953 Jack Benny Show Mentions my WeWork Office in SF

On a redeye flight yesterday from Washington to SFO, I was watching a 90 minute compilation of old Jack Benny shows on Amazon Prime Video.   The shows were from the early 1950s; one mentions Harry Truman about to leave the presidency (January 1953).    There were early appearances of Bing Crosby's brother Bob Crosby, who was to become Benny's bandleader for a decade.

In one of the show's monologs, Jack Benny mentions he is about to take a trip to San Francisco.   "I like San Francisco...I first performed in public in San Francisco.   I played the violin.  [pause]  At Market & Taylor Streets. [longer pause] ... I hear there's a theater there now. [laughter]."

The joke being he was so old he performed before the 1920s, before the Golden Gate Theater was built in 1922. 

A few years ago, the outer office building shell of the Golden Gate Theater became one of the first WeWorks locations in SF (there are now about ten.) 

This year 2018, the Golden Gate Theater is getting a top-to-bottom inside and outside remodel.  This makes my SF office a bit noisy but it will be a showpiece when finished.

Jack Benny 1953

Golden Gate Theater Today

WeWork in office building "shell"