The Western Neighborhoods Project, in partnership with Cinema SF, and Bay Area Movies were kind enough to compliment me on my website, and invite me to their screening of the 1964 film ‘Good Neighbor Sam’. They’ll be showing the movie at the Four Star Theater at 23rd Avenue and Clement Street this coming Thursday, May 28th. I’ve never been in the Four Star Theater, and I’m looking forward to the evening. I looked up some vintage photos of the movie theater, and went over there today to take some pictures. Wow, ‘Raising Arizona’ was playing! I thought that movie was hilarious when I first saw it. (Thumbnail images)
The Four Star Theater originally opened in 1913 as the La Bonita Theater, The vintage picture was taken in 1919. (San Francisco Library Digital Library Archives)
Looking west on Clement Street in 1949: Lincoln Park is in the far background of both pictures. In 1927, the theater name was changed to the Star Theater, and in the late 1940s, the Four Star Theater. (opensfhistory.org)
The Four Star Theater in August of 1964, in an Alan Canterbury photo from the San Francisco Digital Library Archives. Last Fall, I did several posts on photographs by Alan Canterbury. (San Francisco Library Digital Library Archives)
The Four Star Theater in 1969; Langendorf Bread, RC Cola, and a real odd couple, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and the ‘Odd Couple’ for a double feature: (Bay Area Historic Theaters)
The theater in 1990 in another great picture from the opensfhistory.org collection:
San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now 
Oh my; I remember Langendorf Bakery. My second grade class (or so) took a field trip to their bakery in San Jose.