You read the sad stories in the papers: another ornate, 1920s, single-screen theatre closes, to be demolished and replaced by a strip mall.
The heyday of such venues as the Clay, Noe, Metro, New Mission, Alexandria, Coronet, Fox, Uptown, Co.
Only a handful of the 100 or so neighborhood Theatres that once graced these streets are left in San Francisco, but they live on in the photographs featured in this book.
That\'s progress, and in this 20-screen multiplex world, it\'s happening more and more.
You read the sad stories in the papers: another ornate, 1920s, single-screen theatre closes, to be demolished and replaced by a strip mall