Paris Theatre

779 Market Street,
San Francisco, CA 94102

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on August 13, 2011 at 4:19 am

I’ve been unable to discover the original architect of the Portola Theatre, but the February 27, 1918, issue of Building and Engineering News said that architect Alfred Henry Jacobs had prepared plans for a $5,000 renovation of the house, to include redecoration, new marble and tile work, and some plumbing.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on August 27, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Here is a 1960 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/nb93uv

raybradley
raybradley on October 28, 2007 at 1:55 pm

Other vintage views as seen beside the California (AKA-State) Theatre -
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Rodney
Rodney on October 28, 2007 at 11:34 am

Adult film “FLESH and LACE” must have been quite the controversial boxoffice blockbuster for photos to be made of theatres exhibiting it. Below is a photo of the Sooner Theater (a former WB house), Oklahoma City.
OKC Sooner c1966 -
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SF Paris c1966 -
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lostmemory
lostmemory on September 7, 2007 at 6:32 pm

A Robert-Morton theater organ was installed in the Portola (Farros) (Paris) Theater in 1923.

lostmemory
lostmemory on June 23, 2007 at 10:40 am

An interior view of a Portola Theater can be seen here.

GSenda
GSenda on May 12, 2006 at 6:35 am

Where the Paris stood is now the back entrance to a hotel.

The former Bank of America branch is now a Marshalls or Ross store and an atm is in the wall.

For years this site stood vacant and boarded up.

George Senda
Concord, Ca.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on January 9, 2006 at 4:24 pm

Night view, 1967:
http://206.103.49.193/sf/htm/sf287.htm

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on December 20, 2005 at 2:24 pm

Another photo from the same source:

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on December 12, 2005 at 4:28 pm

Here are some photos of the Portola and its successor:

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on October 28, 2005 at 6:20 pm

From the SF Public Library website:

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lostmemory
lostmemory on January 13, 2005 at 5:19 pm

There is a 20’s photo of the Portola Theatre here:
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And a 40’s photo of the Portola Theatre is here:
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Broan
Broan on December 14, 2004 at 1:47 am

Here is another

Broan
Broan on December 14, 2004 at 1:46 am

Here is a July 22, 1966 sidewalk view of the Paris from the Cushman collection

scottfavareille
scottfavareille on May 15, 2004 at 10:05 am

During Farros' run of this theater, it strictly played “adults only” fare. (Farros was also a distributor of “adults only” exploitation fare and is better known by exploitation film historians as one of the “forty thieves”, along with other stalwarts as Kroger Babb and Louis Sonney. Sonney’s son, Dan Sonney, co-founded the Pussycat theater chain with Dave Friedman, who after starting as a publicist for Paramount, became a distributor for Babb and then a film producer.)