Curran Theatre
445 Geary Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94102
445 Geary Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94102
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The Curran opened on September 10, 1922. It was built at a cost of $800,000 by Curran and Schubert; Alfred Henry Jacobs was the architect.
For eighty uninterrupted years, the Curran has served San Francisco theater-goers with top of the line legitimate productions, most recently the incredibly long running Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera.
Did the Curran every show a film? Yes! In 1925, the film version of “Phantom of the Opera”, starring the legendary Lon Chaney was screened at the Curran, thereby qualifying it for inclusion in this project.
But what does that matter? The Curran is a beautifully maintained architectural treasure, still operated according to the highest imagineable standards, a living example of San Francisco’s theatrical and architectural heritage.
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From the SF Public Library website:
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This is a recent photo of the Curran Theater.
The theater cashier was shot and killed in a holdup in 1933:
San Francisco Dec. 27 â€" A hanging verdict was returned early this morning against Edward Anderson, 25, confessed slayer of Hewlett Tarr in a theater box office holdup. Anderson insisted throughout the trial that he had not intended to kill Tarr, Curran theater cashier, but through his unfamiliarity with his gun, it accidentally discharged as he pointed it at the cashier through the grillwork of the cashier box office window.
Some recent photos of the Curran Theater can be seen here, here and here.
Curran Theater photo
Thanks, LM.
Here is the Curran in 1981.
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some exterior curran shots
and here are some shots of the neighboring Geary, not on this site but much more interesting exterior
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This is a June 1961 flyer for the Curran Theater.
The ghost of the cashier shot in 1933 haunts this theatre as does the spirit of a little girl killed by a car across the street in the 50’s. Information from tv series America’s Scariest Places.