Tom Bowden and Aretha Franklin performing “Respect” at Esther’s Orbit Room, late 1960s
![](https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/7thstreet-archive/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/800px-tom_b_aretha.jpg "Tom Bowden and Aretha Franklin performing \\"Respect\\" at Esther\'s Orbit Room, late 1960s")
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Lincoln Theater, 1974
Front of Lincoln Theater, 1981, From the Oakland Planning Department
Photo courtesy of The Oakland Tribune photo - April 4, 1981
Saunders King's band, which played at Slim Jenkins Place
Photo courtesy of Bay Area Rapid Transit
Photo from BART
Courtesy of Bay Area Rapid Transit
Photo courtesy of the Bay Area Blues Society
Bob Geddins in about 1959
Bob Geddins in front of Esther's Orbit Room in 1983
Union headquarters – 1716 7th Street – 1989 photo after remodeling
Photo from Oakland Planning Department
1716 7th Street, Photo from Oakland Planning Department, 1987
![](https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/7thstreet-archive/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/slimcigar.jpg "Harold \\"Slim\\" Jenkins with his trademark cigar")
![](https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/7thstreet-archive/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/slim31.jpg "Harold \\"Slim\\" Jenkins in 1958")