It Came from the (Photo) Morgue!

More San Francisco transit history found in the photo morgue:

Dated July 27, 1928

From platform to platform goes Vladimir V. Rassouchine, 58 Sutter St.
   Son of a wealthy Russian civil engineer, Rassouchine studied piano at the Imperial Conservatory and was on the concert platform at the age of 16 as a protege of Rachmininoff. The revolution threw his family into poverty and exile. He traveled on foot through Europe and finally found employment in Prague and later came to San Francisco. Here he went on the platform of a street car as a conductor for the Market Street Ry.
   And now he is again to go on the theater platform. He will start Saturday at the Warfield Theater, playing with Rube Wolf. Wolf heard Rassouchine singing on a car and arranged a test which the conductor passed successfully.

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