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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

A century-old movie house got a gleaming red third act. The Strand Theater at 1127 Market Street opened on 27 October 1917 as the Jewel, a 725-seat silent-film house on San Francisco's Great White Way; it spent the mid-century as a neighborhood cinema, found cult fame in the late 1970s with revival programming and Rocky Horror midnights, slid into adult-film squalor through the 1990s, and was finally shuttered by a city raid in 2003 - the last movie theatre standing on Market Street, abandoned t...