Theatres of the San Francisco Peninsula
Theatres of the San Francisco Peninsula

Author: Jack Tillmany

Publisher: Imaginary Lines, Inc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738575780

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The San Francisco Peninsula serves as a geographic and transportation link between the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and all points north and south. As commerce increased along its highways and railroad lines from the late 19th century onward, cities and towns flourished along that corridor. Wherever commerce went, entertainment followed. Beginning with early playhouses and storefront nickelodeons, continuing through the movie palace period, the golden age of the drive-in theatre, and into the days of the multiplex, this volume of vintage photographs captures the various eras as they applied to the peninsula.

The Italian Theatre in San Francisco
The Italian Theatre in San Francisco

Author: Lawrence Estavan

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 0893704644

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A history of the Italian-American operatic, dramatic, and comedic productions presented in the San Francisco Bay area through the Depression Era, with reminiscences of the leading players and impresarios of the time, reworked and re-edited by Mary A. Burgess from the Federal Writers Project production of 1939.

Theatres of San Francisco
Theatres of San Francisco

Author: Jack Tillmany

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780738530208

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You read the sad stories in the papers: another ornate, 1920s, single-screen theatre closes, to be demolished and replaced by a strip mall. That's progress, and in this 20-screen multiplex world, it's happening more and more. Only a handful of the 100 or so neighborhood theatres that once graced these streets are left in San Francisco, but they live on in the photographs featured in this book. The heyday of such venues as the Clay, Noe, Metro, New Mission, Alexandria, Coronet, Fox, Uptown, Coliseum, Surf, El Rey, and Royal was a time when San Franciscans thronged to the movies and vaudeville shows, dressed to the hilt, to see and be seen in majestic art deco palaces. Unfortunately, this era has passed into history despite the dedicated efforts of many neighborhood preservation groups.