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The Castro Theatre is a historic movie palace in the Castro District of San Francisco, California. The venue became San Francisco Historic Landmark #100 in September 1976. [2] Located at 429 Castro Street, it was built in 1922 with a California Churrigueresque façade that pays homage—in its great arched central window surmounted by a ...
The Castro Organ Devotees Association (CODA) is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the tradition of live organ music in San Francisco's Castro Theatre. [1] The theater is a popular San Francisco movie palace, built in the 1920s, which gained Historic Landmark status in 1976. [2]
One of the more notable features of the neighborhood is Castro Theatre, a movie palace built in 1922 and one of San Francisco's premier movie houses. 18th and Castro is a major intersection in the Castro, where many historic events, marches, and protests have taken and continue to take place.
San Francisco's Castro Theatre is not just a classic cinema house. It's proof that even as the current of tastes and technology flow elsewhere, your local, single-screen movie theater can still be ...
The 16th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival was held at the Castro Theatre July 14–17, 2011, featuring 18 programs of films and presentations, all with live accompaniment by the foremost silent film musicians in the world. The festival opened with the new restoration of Upstream (1927) directed by John Ford.
2006, the last year of the large organized street party, a crowded city bus with the destination "Halloween Castro." Halloween in the Castro was an annual Halloween celebration held in The Castro district of San Francisco, first held in the 1940s as a neighborhood costume contest. By the late 1970s, it had shifted from a children's event to a ...
The United States premiere of Wilde Salomé was held on March 21, 2012, at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro District. Marking the 130th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's visit to San Francisco, the premiere was a fundraiser for the GLBT Historical Society, with 1,000 tickets reserved for sale to the public.
Center for Sex & Culture, 1349 Mission Street; hosted live theater and other events in South of Market [40] The Dark Room Theatre (2008–2015), 2263 Mission Street [41] El Capitan Theatre and Hotel, 2353 Mission Street; Mission District [42] EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street [43] Grand Opera House (San Francisco)