Surely you’ve wondered what went on at all those run-down theaters lining Mission street before they were converted to dollar stores, parking structures, and termite farms. Well now is your chance to find out. Jack Tillmany, a San Francisco transit and theater historian, will be hosting a free presentation tomorrow, Wednesday 10/19 7pm at the Bernal Heights Public Library.
During the golden years of moviegoing in the first half of the 20th century, just about everybody went at least once a week. Ten thousand people a day went to the movies in San Francisco on Mission Street alone. Most of the theatres are gone now, or, worse yet, sitting vacant and abandoned as sad reminders of what once was, but will never be again. But a couple of them have been in business for more than a century and continue to survive and, let us hope, prosper.
Transit and movie theatre historian Jack Tillmany’s presentation offers a guided tour of just about all of them, from 16th Street through the Mission and Bernal Heights to Daly City, in black and white and in color, along with the many streetcar lines that provided transportation on San Francisco’s longest thoroughfare. Best of all, the presentation is free — and all attendees will receive a free, authentic souvenir of the streetcar era!
Interesting history talks sound like the perfect companion to Whiskey Wednesdays at Bender’s! Unofficial after-party?
[via Bernalwood]
