Surf Theater



Surf Theater

Surf Theater
Surf Theater - 1970s
Photo courtesy of J.E. Tillmany

Surf Theater
Irving Street, between 46th and 47th Avenues

Opened: around September 1926 as the Parkview Theater (there is a construction announcement in the San Francisco Examiner on December 12, 1925, but it's first listing in the telephone directory is November 1926).

Renamed: The "Sunset" Theater in September 1937.

Remodeled and Renamed again: as the "Surf" on July 24, 1957.

Closed: July 7, 1985.

(Thanks to J.E. Tillmany for most of this information.)


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