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Author Topic: Presidio closed Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-09-2003 04:51 AM                        Great pictures from the really nice looking Presidio Theatre. Just sad, it is closed. Coming back as four no comfort, if there are going to be 4 screen in the same area, they will be very small.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-09-2003 11:37 AM                     Per Thats the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco, California.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-09-2003 11:41 AM                        I just can't get over the sarcastic marquee. The theater is closing and it says "Thanks for your patronage"? They don't need to snap back at the community like that. Yes, Presidio, we know that if more customers had "patronized" your theater, it wouldn't need to close. We get that. But people obviously didn't want to show up in great quantities, so bye!  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 09-09-2003 12:24 PM                        I closed the Lark Theatre in Larkspur, CA and without thinking I did up the marquee to say "THEATRE CLOSED" and underneath that "THANK YOU LARKSPUR". When I drove by a week later and read it with a clear head, I realized it read more "THEATRE CLOSED, THANK YOU LARKSPUR" I think it's hard to convey the sorrow of closing a theatre with what little marquee space available to you. Because you do thank the community for helping it hang on as long as it did, and especially thank those who did attend films there... but at the same time you are kinda pissed that more people didn't show up in the first place.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-10-2003 07:27 PM                     At least it's not like the banner that the Cleveland Wrecking Company uses on the marquee, when then raze a theatre. RETURN ENGAGEMENT "BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE" Cleveland Wrecking Company  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 09-11-2003 12:47 AM                     How in hell do they think they can make that into 4 screens! Crazy people! Each auditorium will probably have a few couches and a big screen tv!! Danny  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 09-11-2003 12:57 AM                        During one of my many visits to San Francisco, I did have an opportunity to see a movie at the Presidio. The theatre was on Chestnut Street and a very good friend had a photography studio directly across the street on the 2nd floor above the grocery store. I recall the Presidio and my friend's studio was in a very nice neighborhood. The theatre was nothing fancy. It was a large single screen house and the movie I saw there was the original "SPEED". The picture and sound was very good. It is too bad another landmark theatre has bit the dust. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 09-11-2003 10:01 AM                     quote: How in hell do they think they can make that into 4 screens! Crazy people! Dan, to get some kind of idea, take a drive to Pasadena and visit the Academy 6. This used to be an average-sized single theatre. And yes, it really is as bad as it sounds. What is odd about the Presidio is that it was prevenmted from being used for other purposes. The question is why, then, wasn't it prevented from being plexed? (BTW, wasn't this thread closed a few days ago?)  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-11-2003 03:15 PM                     quote: This used to be an average-sized single theatre. Before the plexing of the Academy. When Mann Theatres operated the Academy it seated 1700 people. It was larger than the Village in Westwood (1535 people before the recent remodel). At one time Mann Theatres were working on plans to plex the Village. But they do not own the theatres, they are only leased properties. If you want to see an average-sized theatre that has been plexed look at the Laemmle's Music Hall Triplex (it seated 867 when it opened.)  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 09-14-2003 03:47 PM                     I personally will miss The Presidio. It was one of my favorites. I'll go to the single screen theatres over these new AMC 60 megaplexes anyday. We now only have a few single screens left here in SF and they're all probably on their way out too...  |  IP: Logged

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