‘Then and Now’: Coliseum Theatre

By San Francisco Richmond ReView on August 6, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Above: Coliseum Theatre, circa 1954, on Clement Street at Ninth Avenue. The theater marquee displays “ATTEND/ALEXANDRIA/CORONET.” See’s Candies, Fosters restaurant at left. The Coliseum Theatre opened in 1918 and closed permanently on Oct. 17, 1989, a casuality of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Photo courtesy of a private collector/Western Neighborhoods Project/OpenSFHistory.

Below: The former theater has been converted to condominiums. The retail space used to house a Walgreens but is currently unoccupied. Photo by Jillian Regan.

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