New Century Theater
816 Larkin Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94109
816 Larkin Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94109
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2009 photo of the Century Tehatre.
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1974 Photo
Here is another photo.
From Boxoffice magazine, May 1950:
“The Titan” in its third week at the Larkin Theater, San Francisco, is being exploited by Quinten Lacey, exploiteer from United Artists.
The name on this theaters website is New Century Theater which you can find by doing a Google search using that name. I don’t see any type of movies listed for this theater. A better choice for the function above would be Live Performances.
Blurb in the LA Times, dated 3/3/78:
The Mitchell Brothers, Artie & Jim, will give the San Francisco Larkin Theater six months to fare well as a straight movie house, with foreign classics and short experimental films slated on the bill of fare. Otherwise, the former porno house will “go gay hardcore”.
Is this theater still showing gay films, and is it a members only cinema?
My photograph of the CENTURY View link
I saw Bernardo Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution for the umteenth time here in June, 1973.
A while after it had opened in New York in August of 1947, Vittorio De Sica’s film “Shoe Shine” played at the Larkin for eight weeks. That shattering neo-realist movie about the aftermath of World War II and life in a boys' prison was distributed at the time by Lopert Films, Inc.
Walter Reade theaters ran this & the nearby Music Hall theater until they went bankrupt in 1978. The Mitchell Brothers bought out the lease (to pre-empt Walnut Properties dba Pussycat Theaters from becoming competition to their nearby O'Farrell theater) and the Larkin showed porn from 1978-1979. Then the Mitchells turned it into a short lived revival house, then it became a gay porn theater. Now it is the New Century.