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Above are two views the beloved Castro Theater, the bottom photo shows the theater recently repainted in bright 1970s colors for the filming of the movie Milk, a film about the life of Harvey Milk, the country's first openly-gay elected official.
The Spanish Baroque theater was designed by Timothy Pflueger in 1922 for the Nasser Brothers, Syrian immigrants whose family still retains ownership of the movie house. The unaltered interior features blue and yellow moorish tiles and ornate plaster work in an Arabia Nights theme. The theater added its famous neon sign in 1937 and was declared a Historic landmark in 1977. For many the Castro Theater marks the heart of San Francisco's Castro District and LGBT community. The repertory cinema seats 1,600 and its original Wurlitzer pipe organ rises slowly from the orchestra pit playing "San Francisco" just before the feature begins.
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