Eureka Theater
612 F Street,
Eureka,
CA
95501
612 F Street,
Eureka,
CA
95501
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I just recently started volunteering at the theater again, and it appears that Gregg’s claim about our theater is incorrect. He has us confused with the Daly Theater, which is where all of the news coverage is focues on.
For those of you who are wondering what those interesting details are that Gregg is talking about, according to Gregg, they have uncovered the upstairs mural. When you walk up the curved stairs, there is this big wall next to you on the second floor landing that is curved. Throughout the years of modernization, this wall was left vacant covered by many layers of turquoise/sea green paint. I am assuming (judging by recommendations I have herd by a cal-trans woman I once gave a tour for) workers have steamed the paint on the wall and then they peeled it off. That is my assumption, but I could be wrong. From stories I have heard from our general manager who has worked there sometime in the 1950s, the mural was an enormous garden theme with a bench and a tree with branches that extended throughout the wall. I am told that if you look at it in a magic eye type of way, you should be able to see what I am talking about (some people I gave tours to was able to see this).
From, Chris Holmquist (Eureka Theater volunteer)
The Eureka Reporter article updates the restoration and workers have uncovered some interesting details during the ongoing restoration of this theatre.
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The architectural style of this theater is often erroneously defined. It is not art deco but streamline moderne. Art deco is quite geometric with sharp angular lines streamline moderne features flowing spaceship-like lines and the use of innovative new building materials like red glass, blue glass, neon and stainless steel.
These comments are in agreement with noted local authority Ted Loring Jr.
This really is not a significant item in the history of the Eureka, but for me it is: This was the first theatre I ever took a picture of—in September of 1981, when I was just out of High School and beginning to get seriously interested in old movie theatres. I remember one of the movies on the marquee then was “Dragonslayer.”