Motography (Jul-Dec 1913) Internet Archive Search: publisher:"Electricity Magazine Corp." Post-1906 San Francisco Theatres, Dancehalls. San Francisco Theaters, Cinemas, Dancehalls, after 1906 The following is a list of theaters, cinemas, nickelodeons and dancehalls in San Francisco since the 1906 earthquake and fire. The list arranged by street name because some theatres have changed names many times. Links are available to images from the San Francisco Public Library's San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection and elsewhere on the web. Numbers in brackets represent the theater's capacity. The information on this list was compiled from vertical files in the Art and Music Center of the San Francisco Public Library, city directories, motion picture directories, daily papers, and the very meticulous research of Jack Tillmany. 451 Alemany at Bayshore Terrace Drive-In 1951-1953 Baker between Fell and Oak Coliseum 1907; 1913?
Coliseum Building ca. 1912 3630 Balboa [800] Balboa (aka New Balboa) 1926- Balboa Theater Balboa Theater in 1964. 4428 Bayshore Blvd. Bayshore 1926-1959 Beach and Polk Hungry I (Cabaret) 1960s, 1971 747 Beach St. Historic Theaters - Newspaper Article Archives. The Perils of Moviegoing in America: 1896-1950 - Gary D. Rhodes. During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. Film fires were rampant, claiming many lives, as were movie theatre robberies, which became particularly common during the Great Depression.
Labor disputes provoked a large number of movie theatre bombings, while low-level criminals like murderers, molesters, and prostitutes plied their trades in the darkened auditoriums. That was all in addition to the spread of disease, both real (as in the case of influenza) and imagined ("movie eyestrain"). Audiences also confronted an array of perceived moral dangers. The Perils of Moviegoing in America: 1896-1950 provides the first history of the many threats that faced film audiences, threats which claimed hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. Historic Movie Theatres in Illinois, 1883-1960 - Konrad Schiecke.
Vintage Cinema History Websites. Vintage Cinema Posters. Vintage Films Online. Vintage Film Books & Mags. Roxy Theatre, New York - Architects Art No 1. Roxy Theatre, New York - Architects Art No 2. Roxy Theatre, New York - Architects Art No 3. Roxy Theatre, New York - Architects Art No 4.