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Roosevelt Theater c 1944
Opened for business in 1916 as the York Theater, it was the neighborhood's movie house until c1927 when it became the Roosevelt Theater, complete with a new sign.
Hard times (in the movie business ) and a changing community dictated another change in 1975. Its name was changed to Cine York and it started showing Spanish language movies. By 1981 the 375 seat theater, having gone full circle, was renamed the York Theater. After ten rocky years, however, it closed its doors.

York Theater in 2000
The York Theater, located at 24th and York Streets, as it looks today. It has not shown motion pictures since at least c1990 and has been mostly idle since that time. In 2000, it underwent a $2mil. renovation, emerging on December 6, 2000 as the Brava Theater Center for Women in the Arts.
Its motion picture days are almost surely over for good since the Brava Center will be for legitimate theater only. Unfortunately, single-screen theaters, for the most part, are no longer profitable and therefore rapidly disappearing.
For information re. BRAVA, click on Brava below.

Brava

El Capitan Theater c1933
Opened in 1932, the El Capitan was a very popular neighborhood theater.
By the end of the 1930s, there were five large movie theaters on Mission Street, between 16th and 30th Streets. Only Market Street could lay claim to more.
Like many theaters, the El Cap. suffered hard times in the 1950s and closed for good sometime between 1957 and 1959.
Today, only one of the five theaters of that period mentioned above, show movies (Spanish). Three of the others (names changed) are still in place but are being used for other purposes.

El Capitan Theater 2000
Seeing this theater as it is today is almost enough to make a theater buff cry. I suppose it was a compromise to tearing down the entire building, but I don't agree that it was a good one.
Like many theaters that have been closed over the years, it too served as a church for a time, before meeting this horrible fate.

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