Golden Gate Theatre
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This article is about the theater in San Francisco. For the former theater in East Los Angeles, see Golden Gate Theater.
The Golden Gate Theatre is a performance venue located at 1 Taylor Street at the corner of Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, California, United States. It opened in 1922 as a vaudeville house and later was a major movie theater. In the 1960s it boasted a Cinerama screen, but by the early 1970s it had declined and was showing blaxploitation films. It was restored and reopened as a performing arts venue in 1979.
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Address | 1 Taylor Street San Francisco, California 94102 |
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Coordinates | 37.78216°N 122.41073°W / 37.78216; -122.41073 |
Owner | BroadwaySF |
Capacity | 2,297 |
Construction | |
Opened | March 26, 1922[1] |
Closed | 1972 |
Reopened | 1979 |
Website | |
www.broadwaysf.com |
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The theatre is part of the Market Street Theatre and Loft District which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2]