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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

San Francisco's great movie palace came back from a 41-million-dollar rebuild as a concert hall that still runs film. The Castro Theatre at 429 Castro Street opened on 22 June 1922 with an invitation-only screening attended by Mayor "Sunny Jim" Rolph - the first solo commission of Timothy L. Pflueger, who went on to design Oakland's Paramount and much of the Bay Area's Jazz Age skyline. The Spanish Baroque fantasy, with its Churrigueresque facade, leatherette ceiling evoking an open-air Roman am...