Alhambra Theatre (San Francisco)

For the theater in Sacramento, see Alhambra Theatre, Sacramento. For other uses, see Alhambra (disambiguation).Alhambra Theatre, San Francisco was a Moorish Revival movie theater at 2330 Polk Street in San Francisco, California which opened on November 5, 1926 and was designed by architect Timothy Pflueger, who also designed the Castro Theater and the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California.

The theater, which had 1625 seats when it opened, was converted to twin theaters in 1976, reopened as a single screen in 1988, and closed as a movie theater on February 22, 1998. It was designated official San Francisco landmark #217 on February 21, 1996.

It is now a Crunch gym. The conversion to the gym has retained most of the interior detail and movies are shown on the still-present big screen. The balcony retains the aisles, which have been widened and there are only four. They accommodate about 80 cardio machines facing the screen.

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