“Reopening Roxie” is a short documentary following San Francisco’s longest-running movie theater, The Roxie, as it reopened on May 21, 2021, after 434 days closed.
For more information on The Roxie visit their site.
Stillwater Productions is a San Francisco-based documentary film company that aims to capture the people and places that make SF so special. You can subscribe to Stillwater’s Youtube channel here.
The Roxie used to be a strip club back in the 60’s.
The Roxie was a porn theatre in the early ‘70s. The Victoria down the street was the burlesque house.
I went to Mission Dolores Boys School at 3371 16th Street during the 60’s and 70’s. The nuns did not allow students to walk by the Roxie because of the lurid posters of tainted women. We did anyway…
My dad was a projectionist at the Roxie during the depression. So glad that it lives on!