Avenue Theatre
2650 San Bruno Avenue,
San Francisco,
CA
94134
2650 San Bruno Avenue,
San Francisco,
CA
94134
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The Avenue Theatre was opened in 1927.
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Juan-Miguel Gallegos
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Another theatre/church,well at least it has not been torn down.
The Avenue Theater had a fairly large stage with a stage house. Stage machinery never had been installed. It did not have a pin rail. The information that I was given was that it was originally designed to be both a vaudeville and movie theater but after it was built the owners decided that vaudeville had no future so did not spend money to install stage machinery. The stage was a large empty area. Dressing rooms had not been finished. Two organ chambers were set on the stage behind the movie screen in the 1960’s. The original theater organ chambers remained empty. I recorded several organ concerts for broadcast and remember that the theater had fairly good accoustics.
Photos of the Avenue Theatre.
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One additional comment. Although the stage had no machinery, the stage house did have a steel grid that would have been used with stage machinery. Grid installation probably was part of the contract to install the structural steel for the building. The grid also may have provided additional required seismic strength to the stage house.
Rick Marshall died in a Marin County nursing home in 2008. He was never a valid Zodiac suspect. They were desperate for suspects and put quite a few people on the list that were not valid suspects, at all.
1991 photo
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A July 2012 photo can be seen here.
A neighborhood group is now seeking to preserve the Avenue as a theater (and not a drugstore!). As a part of that effort, I’m compiling a more complete history of the building. I’d be VERY interested in speaking one-on-one with anyone who knows anything about the building, and wants to help us save it! My private email: . Many thanks in advance.
Tructus, is there a website for the neighborhood group? Or do you know what plans/time tables they have?
This looks like it’s being used as a church. Channels of Blessings. a radio broadcast on KFAX in San Francisco has originated there as well.
http://www.kfax.com/events/default.aspx?id=39115
The exterior looks to be beat from the images I found. Wonder if there’s still plans to bring it back to theater use again.