The City's most revered movie palace at the beginning of the City's oldest Street --16th. Further along at the 16th Street BART is a collection of theaters that often team with the Castro as the Bay Area's most popular multi-venue film festival corridor.

The Castro Theatre is truly an acre of seats in a palace of dreams designed by the City's greatest architect, the much admired Timothy Pflueger who grew up nearby at 1015 Guerrero Street in the Mission District, a melting pot neighborhood of blue-collar workers. The New Mission Theatre at Mission near 21st received significant contributions to its design by Pflueger, who was also instrumental in bringing Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo to San Francisco as part of an art movement and Treasure Island World's Fair which celebrated the opening of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges.

Since 2006, two of the three unoccupied historic Mission buildings, the Armory and the Levi Strauss original factory (both near 14th & Valencia] have found long-term owners leaving the New Mission Theater as San Francisco's longest shuttered historically designated building.