Castro is not only the name for the gay district in San Francisco, the area is home also the same age-old cinema. this venerable movie palace I wanted to visit in the autumn of 07th But unfortunately, the program-kino only uninteresting Ham. This week, there but instead of the LGBT Festival frame lines and with it a varied movie experience - from feel-good movies like Tru Loved (Stewart Wade, USA 2008) to more serious fare such as Before I forget ( Avant que J'oublie , Jacques Nolot, France, 2007). So go ...
combines the architecture of the house under its dome in the Mexican style different styles. The theater has a festive and before the main movie is played organ in a classic - "classic" in the sense of traditional film music. The original organ of an old cinema offers technically-sound Refinements that are not just for film buffs very impressive!
organ end before the movie begins
The Castro Theatre dates from the 1920s and did not fall - like us - war, 70-year city planning delusional or modern multiplex Cinemas victim. What luck! Founded in the cinema of the family Nasser. In 1908 the brothers had begun Nasser with a "Nickelodeon" - a small screening room to the one received by 5 cents (= a "nickel") entry. 1922, then built the present movie theaters in the Castro Street.
This road also gave the district its name, though some of the surroundings at that time still "little Scandinavia" was called (because of the many immigrants from Denmark, Norway and Sweden). But "Castro" was the name since 1887, the last stop of the tram coming from downtown and is left Castro, with whom the district has been famous since the 1960s.
experienced the cinema itself, meanwhile, several changes of ownership and common time-related films made changes to the building in the 70's was listed. The organ was restored in 2001 and took over the descendants of the brothers, Nasser again the management of the cinema.
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