SF Throwbacks

The Original Sony Metreon in San Francisco Was a Mall of the Future

It was like a spaceship had landed in SoMA full of the latest cutting-edge technology

Sophia Smith
4 min readOct 21, 2020

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View of the Metreon building taken from the street.
Photo: New America Media via Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0

This article is part of SF Throwbacks, a feature series that tells the stories behind historic photos of San Francisco in order to learn more about our city’s

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Sophia Smith

writer and editor // Ⓥ // Heavy weights, heavy music, words of all size