In 1991, I decided to catch a weekday matinee of Gus Van Sant’s indie film My Own Private Idaho at the Lumiere Theatre, located at 1572 California Street just off of Polk Street. Built in 1974 by Mel Novikoff, who also built the Castro Theatre, the Lumiere opened on Jan. 24, 1975, with a Lenny Bruce performance film, Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising and Jack Kerouac’s Pull My Daisy.