State Theater/State Room

The State Theater opened in 1931 as South San Francisco's third movie theater and the peninsula's first sound theater. Designed in the Spanish Revival style by the Reid Brothers, architects of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and other notable buildings including many palace-style theaters in California, it scheduled movies three times a week, with Wednesdays known as Dish Night. In the mid-1960s, All Souls Church held services there after the church was destroyed by fire. The theater closed in the early 1970s and was then remodeled into the State Room, whose private hall and second-floor banquet room retain the original theater design.

South San Francisco, California · United States