630 Irving St. | map |
Opening: Sometime around 1914 as the Parnassus Theatre.
It's in the 1914 city directory. It was on the north side of the street
between 7th Ave. and 8th Ave. It was renamed the Sunset Theatre sometime before mid-1915.
Jack Tillmany notes that Parnassus was a neighborhood name. Parnassus
Avenue becomes Judah Street at 5th Avenue, and Judah is one block South
of Irving.
A 1915 comp ticket. Thanks to Lily Castello for spotting this on eBay in 2020. She shared it as a post on the BAHT Facebook page.
The ticket was on eBay again in 2022 from Richard Blaisdell's Blaisdell
Collectibles. This time Mark Reed grabbed an image of the back of it:
IMDb comments about the "Who Pays" series:
"Who Pays? (1915) was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing different roles each time, with a variety of supporting players who varied from one episode to another. Each episode told a complete and individual story, but they were all inter-related by a uniform theme. Although there were no cliff-hanger endings, each episode did, in fact, end with a challenge to the audience: Who was responsible for the misfortune of the principal characters?..."
The theatre was listed in the 1916 city directory as the Sunset.
Closing: Jack notes that the last city directory listing was 1924. He adds:
"Apparently, when it shut down, the Irving Theatre, 830 Irving St., was renamed the Sunset, and remained so until it shut down in 1929."
Status: The building may have survived. There's now a retail tenant in the single-story building at 630.
Looking west on Irving St. Crossroads Trading Co. is now the tenant at 630. Photo: Google Maps - 2019
More Information: 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.
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