Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Presidio closed

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Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 09-09-2003, 04:51 AM:

Great pictures from the really nice looking Presidio Theatre.
Just sad, it is closed. Coming back as four no comfort, if there are going to be 4 screen in the same area, they will be very small.

[Frown]

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 09-09-2003, 11:37 AM:

Per

Thats the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco, California.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-09-2003, 11:41 AM:

I just can't get over the sarcastic marquee. The theater is closing and it says "Thanks for your patronage"? They don't need to snap back at the community like that. Yes, Presidio, we know that if more customers had "patronized" your theater, it wouldn't need to close. We get that. But people obviously didn't want to show up in great quantities, so bye! [Smile]

Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 09-09-2003, 12:24 PM:

I closed the Lark Theatre in Larkspur, CA and without thinking I did up the marquee to say "THEATRE CLOSED" and underneath that "THANK YOU LARKSPUR".

When I drove by a week later and read it with a clear head, I realized it read more "THEATRE CLOSED, THANK YOU LARKSPUR" I think it's hard to convey the sorrow of closing a theatre with what little marquee space available to you. Because you do thank the community for helping it hang on as long as it did, and especially thank those who did attend films there... but at the same time you are kinda pissed that more people didn't show up in the first place.

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 09-10-2003, 07:27 PM:

At least it's not like the banner that the Cleveland Wrecking Company uses on the marquee, when then raze a theatre.

RETURN ENGAGEMENT "BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE" Cleveland Wrecking Company

Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 09-11-2003, 12:47 AM:

How in hell do they think they can make that into 4 screens! Crazy people! [fu]

Each auditorium will probably have a few couches and a big screen tv!!

Danny

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 09-11-2003, 12:57 AM:

During one of my many visits to San Francisco, I did have an opportunity to see a movie at the Presidio. The theatre was on Chestnut Street and a very good friend had a photography studio directly across the street on the 2nd floor above the grocery store. I recall the Presidio and my friend's studio was in a very nice neighborhood. The theatre was nothing fancy. It was a large single screen house and the movie I saw there was the original "SPEED". The picture and sound was very good. It is too bad another landmark theatre has bit the dust. [Frown]

-Claude

Posted by Paul Linfesty (Member # 214) on 09-11-2003, 10:01 AM:

quote:
How in hell do they think they can make that into 4 screens! Crazy people!

Dan, to get some kind of idea, take a drive to Pasadena and visit the Academy 6. This used to be an average-sized single theatre. And yes, it really is as bad as it sounds.

What is odd about the Presidio is that it was prevenmted from being used for other purposes. The question is why, then, wasn't it prevented from being plexed?

(BTW, wasn't this thread closed a few days ago?)

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 09-11-2003, 03:15 PM:

quote:
This used to be an average-sized single theatre.

Before the plexing of the Academy. When Mann Theatres operated the Academy it seated 1700 people. It was larger than the Village in Westwood (1535 people before the recent remodel).
At one time Mann Theatres were working on plans to plex the Village. But they do not own the theatres, they are only leased properties. If you want to see an average-sized theatre that has been plexed look at the Laemmle's Music Hall Triplex (it seated 867 when it opened.)

Posted by Eric Hooper (Member # 1730) on 09-14-2003, 03:47 PM:

I personally will miss The Presidio. It was one of my favorites. I'll go to the single screen theatres over these new AMC 60 megaplexes anyday. We now only have a few single screens left here in SF and they're all probably on their way out too... [Frown]