Vogue Theatre
3290 Sacramento Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94115
3290 Sacramento Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94115
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Please update, total seats 222 based on vogue seating chart
The history page of the Vogue’s web site says that the house opened in 1910 as the Elite Theatre and was known as the Rex Theatre before becoming the Vogue in 1939.
San Francisco Theaters, Cinemas, Dancehalls, after 1906 lists 3290 Sacramento Street as the home of the Elite Theatre from 1912-1919, the Rex Theatre from 1919-1927, the Plaza Theatre from 1927-1939, the United Artists Vogue From 1939 to an unlisted date, and simply the Vogue Theater in 1982.
Around 1916 there was an Elite Theatre on Market Street opposite 7th in downtown San Francisco, so the two Elites must have overlapped for some time. The post-1906 web page doesn’t list the Market Street Elite Theatre.
I visited this theater yesterday in my quest to visit single-screen theaters around the country. It is a very nice theater with excellent projection, and I enjoyed my visit. My only complaint is that the curtain was already open and there were no stage lights. The front of the auditorium was just dark. I feel that if a theater has a curtain, they should use it, along with stage lights. It would make the place much more attractive and inviting. Too many of the single-screen theaters I visit are so dark that you can’t appreciate the decor and ornamentation of the place. It’s always disappointing.
A 2012 photo can be seen here.
Here’s a photo from 2006
The Vogue- Nothing Dies With Blue Skies.com
History from the theatre’s website (provided by LostMemory above) states that this theatre was built in 1910, and only became the Vogue in 1939 (the era of most of the Vogue theatres). Also alternate names: Elite Theatre from 1910, at some point was also known as the Rex, then the Vogue. I can’t wait to check this theatre out next time I’m in SF!
The Vogue in 1997: View link
The current seating capacity is 240 seats.
here is a link with more info http://www.sfntf.org/images/vogueflyer.pdf
The SF Theatre Foundation just bought the Vogue and will operate it as Peerless Entertainment.
I hope they go back to using the stage lights and the red curtains before the movie.
In todays SF Chronicle looks like the Vogue has new owners. Did UA/REAGAL sell off the lease. Shows A SFNTF THEATRE wwwvoguesf.com Opening under new management Aug 24 2007. This is good news. UA sells all they can to make money on the land that theatres sit on. But for the San francisco UA/REGAL VOGUE lools like It has a few years left?
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Here is a photo of the Vogue which I took in 1998 when I went there to see “Saving Private Ryan.”
The article mentioned above also said some other information on Regal’s SF theaters (under the UA banner). It mentioned that the Alexandria is on the market for $6.5 million and that the leases for the Metro and the Galaxy 4 are on the market. The Vogue is on the market for $1.25 million. Their 280 Metro 6 screener in Colma was recently shut down due to competition from a new Century Theaters 20-screener in Daly City and that theater was sold to Best Buy.
San Francisco Chronicle article Wed Jan.7, 2004:
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San Francisco’s Vogue Theater, one of the city’s last remaining single-screen movie houses, is on the market and will probably be sold to a local developer who plans to convert the one-story building into retail space or tear it down and build a mix of housing and retail on the Sacramento Street site.
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The Vogue, which is currently showing “Cold Mountain,‘’ is one of a handful of venerable San Francisco neighborhood theaters being sold by the Regal Entertainment Group of Knoxville, Tenn., the nation’s biggest movie theater chain.
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Another bid was recently submitted by a group of local investors who want to maintain the Vogue as a movie theater. The group includes San Francisco Giants vice president and general counsel Jack Bair and Alfonso Felder, the Giants' director of administration and president of the nonprofit San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation, which aims to save local theaters.
The Vogue Theatre is located at 3290 Sacramento Street.
The Vogue theatre received more upgrades this year. Approx. 3 months ago the entire auditorium interior was re-painted.