Comments from kencmcintyre

Good luck with the project. It seems like that area is in a perpetual state of redevelopment.

Here is a 1946 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/4yom5p

Here is a January 1950 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/4ocsgt

This site states that five theaters on Main Street in the 1930s were owned by Palmetto Amusements, a subsidiary of Publix. That may explain the origin of the theater’s name:
http://www.nickelodeon.org/fox.php

Part of the theater was used as a church in the 1980s:
http://tinyurl.com/4tjt5r

Here is some badly translated information about this theater. I’m guessing, but doesn’t the name mean “agreement and disagreement”? What’s the story behind that?
http://tinyurl.com/4wz3bd

In 1963, Grand Theaters, Inc. ran the Park in Gardena and the Stadium and Grand in Torrance. President was Harry Milstein and general manager/purchasing head was J.N. Dabbs. Helen Mellinkoff ran the Park at that time.

It’s temporary, according to them. I’ll check back in a week or so.

The theater is temporarily closed. No reason given on their website.

There is a photo of the theater at the bottom of this page:
http://tinyurl.com/4pddqx

I don’t know how recent this, but this committee is soliciting donations for renovation of the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/3tntvu

You may be right. I looked at some other sites, and they had made comments concerning the fact that they could not pin down the location of the 54 in Iola. Additionally you can map 2200th Street to either Gas or Iola.

I think with two different addresses, zip codes and phone numbers, that there is one in Iola and one in Gas City. Coincidentally they’re both called the Iola 54.