Photo taken on Market Street in San Francisco, June 2011. Street art by Roa.
The Strand Theater has gone through many incarnations, opening its doors as a movie house for the first time in 1917 but changing owners several times over various financial crises.
The theater fell prey to increasing home video use in the 80s and then the Loma Prieto earthquake, which started its rapid decline to oblivion. In the 90s it temporarily claimed notoriety as a porn theater and haven for hookers and crack dealers, finally closing its doors permanently in 2003, the last theater on Market Street to do so.
For more on this once great theater check out Cinema Treasures . Also be sure to take a look at this wonderful review by the Bold Italic of the many historic and vacant theaters that haunt the City of San Francisco.
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