Coronet Theatre
3575 Geary Boulevard,
San Francisco,
CA
94118
3575 Geary Boulevard,
San Francisco,
CA
94118
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Barring further last minute legal challenges, The Coronet Theater building is scheduled to be demolished in April 2007.
Unbelievable bullshit that this place is being taken apart. There is no sophisticated way to describe it.
:–(
Interior demolition of the Coronet apparantly began about 2 weeks ago. A huge debris box has been set up in the parking lot next to the theater and scaffolding has been erected inside. I have seen workers dumping wheelbarrows full of plaster & tile into the debris box and as I was passing there one day last week I saw them hauling out huge rolls of carpet that had been ripped out of the interior. -JimC-
Here is a July 2000 article about the possible demolition of the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/y6xfwe
The Coronet saga goes on.
You can read the latest news (Sept 2006) here:
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Thursday, I was in Berkeley in an architectual salvage yard, and two of the coronet’s glass fronted movie poster display cases were for sale. I guess parts of the Coronet will live on elsewhere…
The theater is still standing (as of last week anyway) and the marquee says something about it being the future home of the senior center who owns it.
That’s one movie I don’t want to see.
All of eleven years old I saw BEN-HUR at the Coronet in the Spring of 1960. Traveled alone by public transit all the way from East Oakland to see it. To this day the best movie experience ever. The lead up to the break for Intermission and the accompanying music was exquisite. Drama & score marriage has never been outdone. Hollywood pulled out all the stops on this one. I tip my hat to you Coronet for knowing how to put on a show. When that huge red curtain closed and I walked out of the theater that day in 1960 the Coronet would indelibly be etched in my memory forever. Goodbye old friend.
Is the theatre still sitting there?
how many subwoofers did it have?
Indeed. Tearing down a single screen theater in ANY neighborhood is tragic.
I think that neighborhood did not get involved to protest or fight to save the Coronet theater.
What a bunch of $#*&
Tear down decrepit theatres in ghetto neighborhoods that are about to fall over. But don’t mess around with one that is well-maintained and does good business. You can build a freakin' senior center anywere.
I shouldn’t post comments of this nature. But it REALLY pisses me off.
Valuable real estate. Sad. At least the Coronet didnt undergo the indignity of being multiplexed itself. I’ve read about this theater for years………
Pretty ridicuous situation. It could be argued that theatres which have decayed to the point of being dangerous (like Detroit’s United Artists) should probably be torn down. But nobody can argue about those that are in good repair and still have significant ticket sales. My guess is that it all comes down to someone paying someone else a lot of money. Such is usually the case.
Yes..those are very nice theaters, but the only one still showing first run films is the UA Metro.
And the wonderful Castro Theatre too.
Don’t forget the city still has the Orpheum, Golden Gate and the Warfield Theatres. Ok they found renewed life with stage shows and concerts, their still around and open.
Correction – it’s not the city’s last great one. The Metro is still with us although I haven’t gone there in a few years. It’s a beauty. I’ll post my accolades there.
Thanks for reading!
THE PLACE to see the first-run blockbuster. How I bragged about this theater to everyone I knew when I first moved to San Francisco. Little by little, I made them all watch a movie here and they all ask about it. I had to break the news to them. My parents are still upset it’s closed and when they visit me, they no longer want to see a movie in the city. Even they know all we have left is…shoeboxes. That’s because the city has lost a jewel of first-run programming. The closing of this theater was the last straw for me. After my problems with the new multiplexes and with no place decent to see a first-run Hollywood film, I have officially stopped going.
This theater had such great sound and going here was what movie watching was all about. Everyone got along here! No cellphone problems! No tough-talking guetto youths staring you down as you walked by! It was this city’s last civilized, classy first-run theater. They’re gone. Over.
This is a nice color photo of the Coronet Theater.
I agree that these buildings remaining unused is a shame, but at least they REMAIN! And in so doing, there’s always hope that somehow they may return to showing movies.
Well, The Coronet is still standing there, untouched since it ‘closed’. What was the point of closing it if no immediate action was going to be taken? The GIOA could have still been leasing it back to REG all this time. They could have been showing Episode 3 and War Of The Worlds all this time…
What a complete waste of the building, a complete waste of lossed rent $$ for the GIOA, and a waste for the City of SF.
And it makes me MAD AS HELL!
(The same can be said for The Alexandria, too!)
Saw Paper Moon here for the first time on June 24, 1973 and Aliens on July 18, 1986.
Saw Speilberg’s War Of The Worlds last night and couldn’t help think how awesome this film would have been at The Coronet with a pack house. Oh well…..