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Our Historical Archive
San Francisco Call Bulletin
October 24, 1903. This article is reprinted below.
Disclaimer: All newspaper articles are reprinted exactly as they appeared in the newspaper regardless of misspellings, grammar,
errors, or omissions. The idea for the Valencia Theater began with this development project. Historically, there were two Valencia Theaters
(both were very different in design), the theater that was built before the 1906 quake, and the theater which was built in 1908 after the quake and
subsequently purchased by the Greek community in 1928.
New Theater For The Mission District
The Welch-Fisher Company Has Leased a Site on Valencia Street and Plans Have Been Completed for a Modern Playhouse to Seat Seventeen Hundred
People.
An important improvement in the Mission district will be the "Valencia Theater," to be built on the southwest corner of Valencia and Fourteenth
streets by the Welch-Fisher Co. This property has been leased from the Peter Deane estate through Shamwald, Buckbed & Co. for a period of twenty
years.
In addition to the theater, which will occupy a space 64x130 feet of the 130x100 foot lot, the balance on Valencia street will be occupied by
six flats and five stores with seven bowling alleys in the basement.
The Valencia Theater will seat 1,700 persons and will be thoroughly fireproof. Every modern device to insure comfort and safety will be provided.
High class melodrama at popular prices will be the feature of this house.
Meyer & O'Brien, Crossley Building are the architects in charge of this improvement, which will cost $60,000.
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