Talk:Clay Theatre

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The "Save Clay Theatre" website has an inaccurate history section (also not a WP:RS), a later published news article debunk many of the myths (discovered through the city landmark process).^[1] PigeonChickenFish (talk) 03:08, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Kukura, Joe (April 20, 2022). "The Clay Theatre on Upper Fillmore has finally received historic landmark status". Hoodline. It did not open in 1910 as we had always believed, but instead in 1913. It did not show San Francisco's first-ever midnight movie screening with Pink Flamingos in 1972, as had been apocryphally believed — a claim that even director John Waters himself repeated.

The founding date is either 1913^[1] or 1914,^[2] there is conflicting info in reliable sources. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 04:14, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Kukura, Joe (April 20, 2022). "The Clay Theatre on Upper Fillmore has finally received historic landmark status". Hoodline.
^ Tillmany, Jack (2005). Theatres of San Francisco. Arcadia Publishing. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-7385-3020-8.

[Kukura22-1] Kukura, Joe (April 20, 2022). "The Clay Theatre on Upper Fillmore has finally received historic landmark status". Hoodline. It did not open in 1910 as we had always believed, but instead in 1913. It did not show San Francisco's first-ever midnight movie screening with Pink Flamingos in 1972, as had been apocryphally believed — a claim that even director John Waters himself repeated.

[Kukura22-2] Kukura, Joe (April 20, 2022). "The Clay Theatre on Upper Fillmore has finally received historic landmark status". Hoodline.

[3] Tillmany, Jack (2005). Theatres of San Francisco. Arcadia Publishing. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-7385-3020-8.

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