Market Street Cinema

1077 Market Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103

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m00se1111
m00se1111 on July 29, 2024 at 9:31 am

The condo complex “Stage 1075” takes up this space. According to Jackson Fuller Real Estate “1075 Stage, built in 2017, is home to 99 residences at 1075 Market St. in the heart of the transforming mid-Market neighborhood along the north end of the South of Market Area (SOMA).

Home sizes begin at about 420 square feet and most homes are in the 600 – 800 square foot range, with several over 1,000 square feet. Homes are available in studio, one-, and two-bedroom layouts.

Building amenities of note include attended lobby, smartphone-enabled virtual doorman, package lockers, rooftop deck with BBQ, fire pit and seating area, dog-run and dog-washing station, landscaped building courtyard, bike storage, and bike maintenance areas."

in the lobby and on each floor is a photo mural paying tribute to all of the cinema treasures that were along Market St.

m00se1111
m00se1111 on August 16, 2023 at 9:35 am

Fun Fact - Camelot (1967) played the Coronet for 39 weeks

stevenj
stevenj on August 16, 2023 at 8:18 am

Both The Alamo (1960) and My Fair Lady (1964) opened 70mm reserved seat engagements at the the 2 Geary Blvd theaters, the Alexandria and Coronet respectively. My Fair Lady ran 50 weeks.

MSC77
MSC77 on August 15, 2023 at 1:56 pm

Jamey_monroe45: “The Exorcist“ first run played Northpoint.

Jamey_monroe45
Jamey_monroe45 on August 15, 2023 at 2:00 am

THIS was the place to go for WB movies before video and multiplexes!

Camelot, Dirty Harry, Virginia Woolf, Daisy Clover, My Fair Lady, Sweet Charlotte, Fanny, The Alamo and many others!

Fun fact: The Exorcist and The Enforcer would’ve played here…

THE ENFORCER WAS FILMED BELOW THIS THEATRE AT THE BART TRACKS IN 1973!

True story! 🤩🤩🤩

HowardBHaas
HowardBHaas on February 20, 2022 at 7:31 pm

Michael, thanks, I’ve heard of the Philly policy. I’ve been to El Capitan, but I didn’t remember its prior names.

MSC77
MSC77 on February 20, 2022 at 6:46 pm

Howard:

1) MW = “Man in the Wilderness” and it was only on opening day per the Philly policy back then of overlapping the outgoing movie’s final day with the incoming movie’s opening day. (There is a legend for the co-hit abbreviations at the beginning of the article’s theater listing on Page 2.)

2) No, it’s 6838 Hollywood Blvd. Currently known as El Capitan.

HowardBHaas
HowardBHaas on February 20, 2022 at 4:30 pm

Michael, re Dirty Harry, Philadelphia’s Fox listing with MW. What’s MW? Also was Hollywood Loews the one at 6764 Hollywood Blvd?

MSC77
MSC77 on February 20, 2022 at 4:11 pm

Here’s my 50th anniversary retrospective on DIRTY HARRY, which includes a historian interview and state by state listing of hundreds of its first run theatrical bookings (including this one).

MSC77
MSC77 on December 21, 2021 at 3:50 pm

It was 50 years ago today that DIRTY HARRY premiered here. Here’s the link to a TV news report of the premiere event.

bigjoe59
bigjoe59 on October 10, 2021 at 12:54 pm

Hello-\

to cjwin- thanks for the reply. when I first visited S.F. the Spring of 1980 the St. Francis was showing double bills of studio films after they had exhausted their 1st runs wherever said runs may have been.

being a native New Yorker I find it fascinating that even when the Times Square area was in its as I put it “very colorful” period it didn’t effect the viability of the big 1st run movie theaters. a similar period for Market St. did the exact opposite.

cjwin
cjwin on October 10, 2021 at 4:39 am

bigjoe59- I can’t be certain, but my current best estimate would be that the last Market St. address to show “first run” films would likely have been the Saint Francis + Baronet, @ 965 Market St. I’d think that it would be more-likely there, than Market St. Cinema (definitely done by 1986), Strand, or Egyptian (now “Crazy Horse”). Of course, local contributer Mr. Tillmany probably would know best about that.

bigjoe59
bigjoe59 on October 8, 2021 at 2:31 pm

Hello From NYC-

to cjwin- I thank you for your previous replies. another question about moviegoing in San Francisco. for many many years many of the premiere 1st rum theaters in S.F. were on Market St.. but by my
first visit the Spring of 1980 not so much. my question- would you happen to know the last time one the grand old movie theaters on Market St. hosted the 1st run engagement of a big studio film?

cjwin
cjwin on September 3, 2021 at 7:52 pm

it’s doubtful, bigjoe59: I’m pretty sure that when the one you just mentioned closed up, the local media reported it was the last one remaining in S.F. I also doubt that in this current economic environment, etc, that any would open up.

bigjoe59
bigjoe59 on September 3, 2021 at 2:21 pm

Hello-

at one time San Francisco had a number of gay porn theaters. this was certainly true over the 25 year period mentioned in my previous post. the most prominent being the Nob Hill Theater. with the recent closing of the Nob Hill are there any gay theaters left in San Francisco?

bigjoe59
bigjoe59 on August 28, 2021 at 1:35 pm

Hello from NYC-

I came out to San Francisco every Spring from 1980-2004. in my first trip the Spring of 1980 this was already an adult theater. I was wondering before this theater went adult what was the last studio film to open?

robertcampbell
robertcampbell on July 1, 2021 at 5:52 am

In the early 80’s the Market Street Cinema had great stage concerts of popular 80’s artists at the time. We went to one that had Devo, Oingo Boingo, and Romeo Void that was a great concert. Place was packed. Concerts there didn’t last long and the theater went to X rated movies with the marquee stating “balcony now open” Went inside to see the place and there was hardly anyone in there.

cjwin
cjwin on June 30, 2021 at 3:30 pm

Please see this thread’s earlier comments from dingoman & terrywade as one reference on 1980-era special showings of some movies shown on 35mm/70mm film.

bigjoe59
bigjoe59 on June 29, 2021 at 10:26 am

Hello from NYC-

in reference to cjwin’s post of 4/17/2017. it was stated roadshow films returned for a short period in the 80s before the theater went exclusively to adult films. the studios discontinued the roadshow policy after the Dec. 1972 opening of Man of La Mancha so what roadshow films in the 80s is cjwin referring to?

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on February 28, 2021 at 8:05 am

Enlargeable 1957 photo in Shorpy link. Click “view full size”.

https://www.shorpy.com/node/13522

Trolleyguy
Trolleyguy on August 31, 2020 at 7:47 am

1959 photo downloaded to photos.

dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on May 9, 2019 at 8:03 pm

Relaunched April 23, 1959 after a two-month, $250,000 revamp to the plans of Carl G. Moeller. The “all new” United Artists launched with “Some Like It Hot.” Ad in photos.

rivest266
rivest266 on August 11, 2018 at 9:12 am

Reopened as Loew’s on October 15th, 1969. Another ad posted.

rivest266
rivest266 on July 31, 2018 at 10:28 am

This became United Artists on March 28th, 1931. Grand opening ad in the photo section.

GaryParks
GaryParks on October 13, 2017 at 4:23 pm

During demolition, during preparations to salvage the “Grauman’s Imperial Theater” stained glass window in the lobby, we went down into the under-stage basement several times, and saw the body outline on the floor, and there were dozens of bullet holes in the fire door at the opposite end of the basement room. we took photos of the room, but nothing extraordinary showed up in our images. With the noise of the Bobcats and backhoe above us, there was no real sense of creepiness, let alone terror. It would have been interesting to have been in the same space when the theatre was abandoned—before demolition began.