Alhambra Theatre, San Francisco
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Alhambra Theatre, San Francisco was a Moorish Revival
movie theater
at 2330 Polk Street
in San Francisco, California
which opened on November 5, 1926 and was designed by architect Timothy Pflueger, who also designed the Castro Theater and the Paramount Theater
in Oakland, California
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The theater, which had 1625 seats when it opened, was converted to twin theaters in 1976, reopened as a single screen in 1988, and closed as a movie theater on February 22, 1998. It was designated official San Francisco landmark #217 on February 21, 1996.
It is now a Crunch gym. The conversion to the gym has retained most of the interior detail and movies are shown on the still-present big screen. The balcony retains the aisles, which have been widened and there are only four. They accommodate about 80 cardio machines facing the screen.
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Moorish Revival
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist fascination with all things oriental...
movie theater
Movie theater
A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
at 2330 Polk Street
Polk Street
Polk Street is a street in San Francisco, California, that travels northward from Market Street to Beach Street and is one of the main thoroughfares of the Polk Gulch neighborhood traversing through the Tenderloin, Nob Hill, and Russian Hill neighborhoods. The street takes its name from former U.S....
in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
which opened on November 5, 1926 and was designed by architect Timothy Pflueger, who also designed the Castro Theater and the Paramount Theater
Paramount Theater (Oakland, California)
The Paramount Theatre is a massive Art Deco movie theater located in downtown Oakland, California, USA. When it was built in 1931, it was the largest multi-purpose theater on the West Coast, seating 3476 Today, the Paramount is the home of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Oakland Ballet, it...
in Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
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The theater, which had 1625 seats when it opened, was converted to twin theaters in 1976, reopened as a single screen in 1988, and closed as a movie theater on February 22, 1998. It was designated official San Francisco landmark #217 on February 21, 1996.
It is now a Crunch gym. The conversion to the gym has retained most of the interior detail and movies are shown on the still-present big screen. The balcony retains the aisles, which have been widened and there are only four. They accommodate about 80 cardio machines facing the screen.
External links
- Alhambra Theater at Cinema Treasures
- Historic Photos at SF Main Library Online Collection
- List of SF Landmarks, Including the Alhambra
- Alhambra Theater at Noehill.com
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