The Presidio Movie Theater, One Of The Last Original Theaters Left In San Francisco. Editorial Image

San Francisco used to have over seventy movie theaters. But with the advent of the television and the move to the multiplex, the neighborhood theater could not compete. Over the years they started closing up, until today there are only nine of the original ones left. Opened originally as the El Presidio, in July 1937, like a number of other theaters, there was a period it was showing final-run movies, and a period of movies. By the 1990`s the Presidio was able to show first fun movies, and is still surviving today.