The Bayshore Theatre

2428 Bayshore Blvd.  | map |

It was a low cost neighborhood house for the Visitacion Valley area.  This stretch of Bayshore was formerly known as San Bruno Ave. The photo is from the collection of Jack Tillmany.

Opened: 1926

Closed:  October 1957. It was later used as a church.

Seats: 350

Status: It's been demolished.

A 1941 photo from an unknown photographer that appears on the open SF History Project website. Market Street Railway workers were tearing out the tracks.

An image from the Jack Tillmany collection. It's a detail from the photo above.  

 

Thanks to Art Siegel for this closer look at the posters. He notes that Gene Autry's "Sunset in Wyoming" was playing the Bayshore on November 20, 1941. Closer to the entrance doors there's a poster for "Adventure in Washington," which was their next attraction.

 

 

 

The theatre in its days as a church. This Jack Tillmany collection photo is on the Cinema Tour page for the Bayshore.

 

The former theatre, after a facade remodel, is on the far left of this photo of the apartment building at Bayshore and Leland. Thanks to Art Siegel for spotting it on page 25 of the 2005 Arcadia Publishing book "San Francisco's Visitacion Valley" by Cynthia Cox, ‎Edie Epps, ‎Jackie Fishtrom, Russel Morine and Betty Parshall of the Visitacion Valley History Project. There's a preview on Google Books. The authors note that Leland Ave. was likely named after Leland Stanford. The photo is credited to the Taylor family. 

More Information:  See the Cinema Tour and Cinema Treasures pages about the Bayshore. 

Jack Tillmany's Arcadia Publishing book "Theatres of San Francisco" can be previewed on Google Books. It's available from Amazon or your local bookseller. There's a small shot of the Bayshore on page 113.

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