Located in Haight-Ashbury on Haight Street between Cole Street and Clayton Street, the Sunset Theatre opened in 1911. It is notable for its ornate Art Nouveau style facade, which has recently been painted fire-engine red. Later renamed Superba Theatre, it was closed in 1924.
The theater later served as a market after closing and today is home to Wasteland, a vintage clothing store.
An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area by Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny says that this house opened in 1911 as a nickelodeon called the Sunset Theatre, and was in operation as the Superba until 1924. The architect was Bernard J. Joseph.
Bernard J. Jospeh had been in a partnership with architect G. Albert Lansburgh from 1906 to 1908, and collaborated with him on a number of projects even after Lansburgh had established his own practice, including the Orpheum Theatre on O'Farrell Street, opened in 1909.
The Superba Theatre
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