Presidio Theatre
2340 Chestnut Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94123
2340 Chestnut Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94123
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The Presidio Theatre opened on July 1, 1937 as the El Presidio Theatre, a last run movie house. In the 1990’s, it became a first run showplace.
After closing in 2003 as a single screen theatre, the Presidio reopened December 25, 2004 as a four screener. The former orchestra seating has the original screen. The auditorium’s sheetmetal sunburst chandelier was removed in the transition. The former balcony has two 100 seat, stadium seated auditoriums. The fourth screen is an additional screening room.
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Juan-Miguel Gallegos
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This is a photo from 1996.
From 2008:
http://agilitynut.com/08/8/presidio.jpg
Here is another photo.
This is a 2009 photo.
I am watching D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back with the director’s commentary on, and they mention that this film was hard to distribute when it first came out. Pennebaker mostly played the film on his one and only 16mm print of it at schools and colleges while he tried to figure out what to do with it. Then someone from the Art Theaters Guild approached him about screening it at the Presidio in San Francisco which at the time was in bad shaped playing pornography. The film then sort of premiered here before being made a 35mm print and screening in NYC.
1980 Photo
1982 Photo
1986 Photo
2009 photo courtesy mailgirl.
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I’ve posted information and photos from a recent visit here.
Here is a night photo from 2010
Presidio at Night
A 2011 photo can be seen here.