Surf Theater
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Surf Theater 1970s - Courtesy of J.E. TillmanySurf Theater
Location: 4510 Irving Street, between 46th and 47th Avenues
Opened: around September 1926 as the Parkview Theater (there is a construction
announcement in the San Francisco Examiner on December 12, 1925, but the first listing in the
telephone directory is November 1926).
Renamed: The Sunset Theater in September 1937.
Remodeled and Renamed again: as the Surf on July 24, 1957.
Closed: July 7, 1985.
(Thanks to Jack Tillmany for most of this information.)
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Surf Theater in the 1960s
Surf Theater
Surf Theater
Surf Theater on Irving Street near 46th Avenue, early 1980s. - Photograph by Jim Cassedy
The Sunset Bar, Surf Theater and Busy Bee Market on 4500 block of Irving Street at 46th Avenue, 1970s. - Courtesy of Greg GaarPage launched 14 March 2001
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