Sun Sing Theatre
1021 Grant Avenue,
San Francisco,
CA
94133
1021 Grant Avenue,
San Francisco,
CA
94133
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Built as the Mandarin Theatre in 1925, in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown, it was renamed the Sun Sing Theatre in 1949.
It closed as a movie house in 1986, and has since been converted into retail use, as the Sun Sing Center.
Its exterior and interior were used for a sequence in the 1948 Orson Welles film, “The Lady From Shanghai”.
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Bryan Krefft
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Since the Mandarin is now used for retail, its status should probably be “Closed” rather than “Open.”
1934 photo of the Mandarin
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1947 photo of the Mandarin
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Wasn’t this theatre also known as the Sun Sing Theatre from 1950 thru 1986?
This is a 1936 program for the Mandarin Theater. If you can read it, please translate for the rest of us.
A 2007 exterior view of the former Sun Sing Theatre:
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I remember this theater when I was a kid. My uncle owned a newspaper stand and the owners of this theater used to let him sell newspaper out in front. I remember as a kid my uncle said no going in there and bothering anyone, even if the owners ask you to. We were always to sit out front and read our books or help stack and sort newspaper and magazines. Sad to see what happened to it. It was a part of chinatown history.